Nonprofit greenhouse hopes to shake dependency on state, federal funds.

By Donna Redman, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 15--CORRALES, N.M. -- Nonprofits that depend mostly on state and federal money sometimes face an uncertain future.

"Our funding kind of depends on who's sitting in the Roundhouse," said Jim Douglas,(cq) manager of the ARCA La Paloma Greenhouse in Corrales in an interview last week. "It seems like every three or four years, we go through a cycle where sometimes the money might be there and sometimes not."

So La Paloma Greenhouse is expanding in hopes of becoming more self-sufficient, he said. It plans to add a 60-foot by 30-foot greenhouse so it can grow organic …