Fabián García (January 20, 1871 – August 6, 1948)[1] was a Mexican-American horticulturist who has been described as "the father of the New Mexican food industry".

[1][2] He went on to attend Cornell University to do graduate research in the 1899–1900 academic year before returning to the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, where he received his master's degree in 1905 or 1906.

Later in his career, he began providing rooms to Mexican-American students at the college in the horticulture farm on campus.

He retired from NMA&MA in 1945 after becoming ill.[3] García married Julieta Amador, a member of a prominent Mimbres Valley family, in 1907.

[5] He died on August 6, 1948, at McBride’s Hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico,[3][7] three years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.