Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.
His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament (1992), a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico.
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988) was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.
[2] Crawford was born in 1937, and was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne.
He moved to Dixon, New Mexico in 1970, where he owned El Bosque, a garlic farm,[3] and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.