Rancho Orgánica excéntrico (y delicioso)

Rancho Toyan , right outside of San Miguel, Mexico,is primarily a vineyard. But Maya Lucus, of La Bodega Organica, drove me there to  check out their Michoacán style 80 peso buffet ($6), prepared with food grown and raised on the ranch, as well as to shop at their staggeringly aesthetic organic market. Both held on […]

A Walk on the Wild (and cultivated) Side….

See the cowboy in the distance? A walk around the lake in San Miguel, Mexico took us past a local farmer, tending his diverse livestock — sheep, goats and cows. This was my 3rd visit to the organic farm, La Trinidad, over several years. The first time I visited, we dug a variety of fresh […]

The Saturday Market

Everything I love and hate about the local food movement is rolled into this Saturday market here in San Miguel, Mexico. Joy — an organic market!  When I first came to this town, 30 years ago, most of the food vendors where not producers, but middlemen, just as they used to be back home. So […]