When you’re planning to spend a day at a museum, a couple logistical questions might come to mind: What am I going to eat? Is the food going to be too expensive and not good?

Luckily for those who visit Albuquerque’s Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum, local, healthy food is available in the attached Three Sisters Kitchen Cafe. With menu items ranging from snack packs and PB&Js to orzo salad and green chile BLTs, there are options for the whole family.

If you pass through Peñasco, New Mexico, in the spring or summer and crave some New Mexican style comfort food, you are in luck. La Jicarita Harvest offers just the food to give you a taste of authentic northern New Mexican cuisine. Sopapilla burgers, Indian tacos, and Frito pies, along with seasonal specials like chicos and green chile fries, are just a few items on the menu.

Turning away customers is something no business owner ever wants to do, but that is exactly what employees at Traveler’s Service Station in Peñasco, New Mexico, had to do.

The small town of Peñasco, New Mexico, doesn’t offer any chain restaurants to stop in for a meal. But what it does offer is a variety of local cuisine. If you are looking for a quick bite to eat on your drive through the mountains, you might try to search for El Ya Merito. It is a small restaurant that specializes in burgers, burritos, and fries.

Peñasco, New Mexico is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, and a lot of people have multiple jobs in the community. It’s the kind of place where you might go into an automotive shop and end up talking to the local water association vice president.

Ivan Roybal, owner of Roybal Ranch, is just that kind of resident. He was born and raised in Peñasco. Aside from owning a ranch, he also owns A1 Automotive and Towing, and is the Peñasco Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association vice president and water operator.

BISMARCK, N.D. – You’ve likely heard the phrases “Farm to Table” and “Farm to School,” but how about “Farm to Tap?” Though maybe not as common or mainstream, “farm to tap” is an appropriate way to summarize the path that grain, grown and harvested on family farms in North Dakota, takes to become the beer that’s poured from taps in local breweries across the country.

Molly Livingston and Jesse Jimerson were living in Northern Nevada while looking for an opportunity to get into farming. When they heard that Piper Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Newburgh, Maine was for sale, they were interested.

How did a globe-trotting former diplomat and one of Washington’s top international lawyers end up running an award-winning winery along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River? The answer is pretty simple really. It was a place to put down roots.

The historic Woodstock, Va., property had rich soil that had been continuously farmed since 1792. When they contemplated dipping a toe into agriculture, Robert Muse made a convincing case for planting “a few grapes” and went on to expand the enterprise into a 35-acre vineyard after the first harvest in 2009.

After a long career in software development, Marci Wilde was ready for a change of vocation. Being a recreation enthusiast herself, she knew how much folks love to enjoy the trails, woods, and lakes year-round, especially up north. So, she packed up and moved to rural Cross Lake Township, Maine. The township is nestled in the “Crown of Maine,” near the northernmost part of Aroostook County and proximal to the Canadian border.