The TCEDC Garden & Kitchen Youth Internship Program offers intensive training for at-risk area youth, ages 15-21, from the Taos Pueblo and our ethnically diverse local community. Utilizing infrastructure already in place in the TCEDC community garden, greenhouses and commercial kitchen, participants will learn gardening, growing for market, packaging and sales/marketing among other food related skills. In this hands-on marketing experience they will learn money management, work habits and marketing skills that will benefit them in any job setting. They will also be instructed in new regulations for food products, various stages of food business development.
Our mission is to support the food, land, water and cultures of the people of Northern New Mexico. Taos County Economic Development Corporation (TCEDC) has focused on maintaining equity and ownership for land-based people, combatting poverty, as well as providing access to education, businesses, and other sector opportunities.
TCEDC’s efforts are to support sustainable livelihoods in agricultural and food-related enterprises. We provide successful strategies for limited resource food producers, particularly women and people of color.