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By Melanie Dabovich
Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP)
Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he’s planted his heat-packed crop for three decades, but as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ground.
A retired employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lopez, 70, is not your typical chile farmer. He labors in his small field in the tiny village of Lyden not for profit but to preserve a cultural and gastronomical treasure passed down for generations – native northern New Mexico chile.
Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP)
Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he’s planted his heat-packed crop for three decades, but as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ground.
A retired employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lopez, 70, is not your typical chile farmer. He labors in his small field in the tiny village of Lyden not for profit but to preserve a cultural and gastronomical treasure passed down for generations – native northern New Mexico chile.
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