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Southern NM LandLink Project
BCIS 350 presentation
A “Greening Garden” project
Las Cruces, New Mexico
2010
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)
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
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?
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.
Database functionality… cont.
• Links to resources: A links page that provides URL for
important Land Link resource contacts; for example
NM Cooperative Extension
NM Department of Agriculture
Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust
Southern Rockies Agricultural Land Trust
Taos Land Trust
Farm Credit of New Mexico
Farm Service Agency
• NRCS
• Land Attorneys, Las Cruces NM
Data base features
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Password login
Logo on forms and reports
Meaningful object naming conventions
Organized relationship view
Aesthetic layout of forms and reports
Other Land Link program links
(for reference only)
• Land Link Vermont
https://uvm.edu/~susagctr/landlink.html
• Urban Land Army
http://www.urbanlandarmy.com/?page_id=6
• International Farm Transition Network
http://www.farmtransition.org/aboutnetw.ht
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• http://beginningfarmers.org/urban-farming/
Project timeline
• 12 Apr, 2010 Initial meeting w/BCIS
• Final product delivery date: