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Healthy Food Financing Initiative Helps Spread the Power and Love of Local Food in New Mexico

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.

Rural Business Development Grant Helps Business Expand Hours

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.

USDA Grant Helps Rancher Make Hay While the Sun Shines

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.

From Farm to Tap

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.