The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum is 47 acres packed with real stories about real people. The Museum’s research collections and archives document all aspects of farming and ranching in New Mexico.  Front and center are the iris gardens located in two large above-ground planting beds.

The interactive museum, which has welcomed visitors from all over the world, brings to life the 4,000-year history of farming and ranching in New Mexico. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national honor for museums.

The enormous main building contains more than 24,000 square feet of exhibit space.  Your ticket into the museum in included with your registration fee.

Fun and learning go hand in hand as visitors stroll along corrals filled with livestock, enjoy several gardens or watch one of our growing number of demonstrations.

MVIS club members worked the hardest on the two large planters used to hold the irises in this garden.  Club members dug out some of the soil out of the planters, added a watering system, replaced the soil with high quality soil interlaced with bio-solids.  Club members are responsible for weeding and fertilizing this public garden.   Though, we were not allowed onto the site during much of the pandemic because of state COVID-19 restrictions.  We collected 12 large bags of weeds in July 2021 when they finally allowed us in!  The beds are doing great.  The concrete pathways around the beds may cause the irises to bloom a little earlier than other gardens.  This is good because Irises that bloom later in the season may have a better chance of blooming in this garden.