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Healthy Soil Program Helps Bring Life Back to the Surface

February 13, 2026

2.13.26 – The New Mexico Department of Agriculture offers a grant program to help improve soil conditions around the state. Nash speaks with program co-lead Katie Crayton, as well as Taos-based soil health coordinator Tyler Zander, about the “Healthy Soil Program” and how these grants are healing the state’s scorched surface. 

Correspondent: Nash Jones 

Guests: 

Katie Crayton, Healthy Soil Program Co-Lead, New Mexico Department of Agriculture  

Tyler Zander, Soil Health Coordinator, Taos Soil and Water District   

New Mexico in Focus is on hiatus as our team gears up for coverage of the general election; we'll be back with all new journalism in October.