Yucky

Yucky the Yucca

Meet Yucky the Yucca, New Mexico’s newest champion for a cleaner, brighter desert. Yucky the Yucca always loved her name. After all, she is a yucca, and even more than that, she is the state plant of New Mexico. That makes her pretty important. For a long time her name felt special, something to be proud of. But over the years the desert winds began carrying trash across the land, and the litter started getting stuck in her spiky leaves. Plastic bags, wrappers, and bottles tangled in her “hair” until she looked messy and miserable. Before long people started calling her Yucky for another reason. Not because she was a yucca, but because she looked… well, yucky. This makes her cranky! Deep down she still loves her name, though. She needs a little help from the community to clean up the desert so she can bloom bright again and remind everybody how special she really is.

A tough girl who is full of personality, resilience, and a lot of sass. She represents the voice and the land itself. Tough, hard, and unmistakably New Mexican, Yucky stands tall in the desert and isn’t shy about letting people know how she feels about trash blowing across her home.