Meet the Native American Farmer Promoting Northern New Mexico’s Indigenous Foodways - Modern Farmer

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The aroma of cedar smoke fills the early autumn air, punctuated by the crackle of wood as Norma Naranjo rakes out hot ashes from the horno, a beehive-shaped adobe oven, with a long wooden paddle. She piles the ashes on the ground and tops them with glossy green chiles from her garden; the heat will concentrate their flavor for later use in a stew.   Naranjo is the founder of The Feasting Place, a culinary and cultural program based out of her ho…