| PRINT | EMAIL | PERMALINK Fuel Spill Committee Part II SWOP: A garden by the base and an ear to the ground By August March Juan Reynosa, Deputy Director SWOPEric Williams PhotographyDriving up to the SouthWest Organizing Project’s community garden, taking Gibson Boulevard east most of the way to Carlisle Boulevard, one is struck by the vast amount of land dedicated to our nation’s defense and sitting on the edge of town.From this perspective, the Sandia and Manzano Mountains seem miniscule, their loftiness erased by miles and miles of barren mesa dotted with brutalist architecture. The hum of activity around here is palpable and vibrates loudly as jets fly in and out of the Sunport and the adjacent base, as military folks go about their work and aviation fuel on the order of thousands of gallons is dispensed each day to fuel-hungry sky machines.On the north side of Gibson, a few blocks inside one of the sparse neighborhoods north of Kirtland, there is a vegetable garden. Using land donated by the city, SWOP took a barren field and has made it lush.Using water from a well that may very well have been exposed to the Kirtland Bulk Fuel Facility… Read full this story
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