Sep 1, 2026 · 32 min · 13 segments
This episode is brought to you by the NCRTD Blue Bus. This Month on “Voices of Taos,” copy editor and reporter Emily Sender sits down for a conversation with Will Jaremko-Wright, Taos County…
this isn't a new conversation, but in Taos County, like in a lot of rural areas, people talk about an aging population.
That's kind of in quotes or not continuing, I guess, like the agrarian traditions or lifestyle that's been the norm in these communities for centuries.
As someone who is working with young people in those fields, do you have a response to that or kind of? Yeah, what do you make of that?
Yeah, that I think that as long as there's, you know, soil and water and carbon in the atmosphere that plants can use, you'll see people wanting to take on those traditions.
I think Taos does have a good history of, you know, again, that sort of younger people get a little bit lost or we have that generational loss of connections with agriculture, but it tends to come back to them later in life.
On the other side of the adult education of, you know, I do a fruit tree pruning workshop and I'll have 50 people show up because who doesn't have, a lot of people got a fruit tree in their backyard in Taos.
So those hands-on skills that are really practical for growing your own food, for having your own personal enjoyment, the aesthetics of your home, your own property value.
How much is an apple tree worth, a nice looking apple tree in front of a house in Taos? That's worth something.
So I think that the youth do learn these skills and There's plenty of them in our communities.
I think Towson News does a great job covering it, aside from my article.
There are youth right now, well, it's Thursday, so they should be in school, but youth will be up on the mountains probably this weekend pushing cows around.
A lot of the local ranchers might use some of these high school kids with a horse and have some background in cattle to push cows or call them day workers.
Have you spoken to any younger people who, like you said, around 30 people come back? Like,
Well, you know, I think it's the great innate desire of humans to grow things and pick at the earth and have animals grow.
this isn't a new conversation, but in Taos County, like in a lot of rural areas, people talk about an aging population.
That's kind of in quotes or not continuing, I guess, like the agrarian traditions or lifestyle that's been the norm in these communities for centuries.
As someone who is working with young people in those fields, do you have a response to that or kind of? Yeah, what do you make of that?
Yeah, that I think that as long as there's, you know, soil and water and carbon in the atmosphere that plants can use, you'll see people wanting to take on those traditions.
I think Taos does have a good history of, you know, again, that sort of younger people get a little bit lost or we have that generational loss of connections with agriculture, but it tends to come back to them later in life.
On the other side of the adult education of, you know, I do a fruit tree pruning workshop and I'll have 50 people show up because who doesn't have, a lot of people got a fruit tree in their backyard in Taos.
So those hands-on skills that are really practical for growing your own food, for having your own personal enjoyment, the aesthetics of your home, your own property value.
How much is an apple tree worth, a nice looking apple tree in front of a house in Taos? That's worth something.
So I think that the youth do learn these skills and There's plenty of them in our communities.
I think Towson News does a great job covering it, aside from my article.
There are youth right now, well, it's Thursday, so they should be in school, but youth will be up on the mountains probably this weekend pushing cows around.
A lot of the local ranchers might use some of these high school kids with a horse and have some background in cattle to push cows or call them day workers.
Have you spoken to any younger people who, like you said, around 30 people come back? Like,
Well, you know, I think it's the great innate desire of humans to grow things and pick at the earth and have animals grow.
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