1. Southern NM LandLink Project BCIS 350 presentation A “Greening Garden” project Las Cruces, New Mexico 2010

2. Background Goal: to develop a database to match area growers, gardeners, agriculturalists with landowners interested in maintaining agricultural land use. Geographic Scope: Dona Ana county Potential clients: southern NM agriculturalists, CSAs, governmental agencies, schools… Demonstration date: 16 May, 2010 (Las Cruces Tour of Gardens 2010)

3. Data and database design Data: tables (refer to owner/tenet applications) – Clients: may be agriculturalists, owners, other, or any combination of these. Client attributes: contact info, agricultural experience – available land attributes: H2O source, infrastructure (i.e. buildings, equipment, electrical utilities), tillable acreage, previous land use, cost/exchange (i.e. rent, sell, share crop, trade, other…) – wanted land: acreage, previous land-use (vegetables, herbs, orchard, beekeeping, organic, pesticide use…), payment/exchange – Other… appropriate associative tables

4. Data and database design Data input: – user-friendly input forms – easy to train someone to enter data. Aesthetics: – Organized, clean user interface Questions so far?

5. Database functionality Queries: – Specific persons or selected persons (or all) wanting/looking for land, with available lands that are most suitable to their needs. How will you determine what is most suitable? – land owners and lands with potential renters/users. Reports: – of clients (by query or filter) and associated land tables (by query or filter). – Query results to be presented in a readable, presentable report format.

6. Database functionality… cont. Links to resources: A links page that provides URL for important Land Link resource contacts; for example  NM Cooperative Extension NM Cooperative Extension  NM Department of Agriculture NM Department of Agriculture  Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust  Southern Rockies Agricultural Land Trust Southern Rockies Agricultural Land Trust  Taos Land Trust Taos Land Trust  Farm Credit of New Mexico Farm Credit of New Mexico  Farm Service Agency Farm Service Agency NRCS Land Attorneys, Las Cruces NM

7. Data base features Password login Logo on forms and reports Meaningful object naming conventions Organized relationship view Aesthetic layout of forms and reports

8. Other Land Link program links (for reference only) Land Link Vermont https://uvm.edu/~susagctr/landlink.html https://uvm.edu/~susagctr/landlink.html Urban Land Army http://www.urbanlandarmy.com/?page_id=6 http://www.urbanlandarmy.com/?page_id=6 International Farm Transition Network http://www.farmtransition.org/aboutnetw.ht ml http://www.farmtransition.org/aboutnetw.ht ml http://beginningfarmers.org/urban-farming/

9. Project timeline 12 Apr, 2010 Initial meeting w/BCIS Final product delivery date: