CASA SAN YSIDRO
View of Heritage Field with Casa San Ysidro to the right. Drone imagery: Consuelo Martinez-Moya
Growing and Preserving Heritage
Plans guide building and farming preservation at Casa San Ysidro
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GRICULTURE HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF
THE WAY OF LIFE IN THE
VILLAGE OF CORRALES for
Alan Minge donated the land to the
and restoration of New Mexico’s habitats.
Albuquerque Museum and established
Rio Grande Return’s partnership
a Deed of Conservation Easement that
with Casa San Ysidro has resulted in the
preserves the field from development
creation of community projects, public
centuries, driven by the flow of water
and keeps the land in agricultural
education regarding historical agricultural
that irrigated the land. Corrales' acequia,
production. To engage the community
methods, and generating seeds for
or irrigation ditch, was dug in the early
with interactive programs exhibiting
communities and habitat restoration.
18th century to guide irrigation water
traditional agriculture and to provide
The partnership also helps to preserve
throughout the village.
stewardship for Heritage Field, the
the state’s cultural heritage and increase
Albuquerque Museum entered into
community involvement.
Casa San Ysidro’s Heritage Field is a 2.38 acre strip of farm land adjacent
partnership with Rio Grande Return, a
to the property. In 2008, Dr. Ward
non-profit dedicated to the protection
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Art. History. People.
“The Heritage Field is looking into a future where agriculture and wildlife
