I’ve really enjoyed spending the past couple of years discovering the variety of foods that are grown and raised locally to the Buena Vista area. The higher the percentage of a meal that incorporates local foods seems to add tremendously to the level of satisfaction both in creating and consuming it. In addition to that, actually having met or even befriending the farmer who raised the food makes it that much more real.

Yesterday, my husband and I cooked a meal where almost all of the ingredients came from within a 90 mile range of Buena Vista. Here is what we had:

• Hashbrowns made from potatoes which came from White Mountain Farm in Mosca – San Luis Valley (available at the Mosca Pit Stop gas station on the west side of Highway 17. They are also one of the only organic Quinoa growers in North America)
• Eggs from Weathervane Farm in Buena Vista (available at Guidestone Farm co-op)
• Pork sausage, also from Weathervane Farm
• Biscuits made from home ground white spring wheat berries from Gosar Ranch in the San Luis Valley (look for their organic flour in grocery stores in the San Luis Valley)