She was out working and then I remember, you know, kind of getting the house ready for her and cooking that dish because that's the first dish that they taught me how to make.

My name is Megan Strom, and I am the farmer and co-owner of Mesa Agricola.

I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, so I was a Midwestern city girl, probably as different as could be from how Juan grew up.

Very disconnected from food and where it came from.

I grew up eating dried apricots and didn't realize that they came from a tree until I was in my early 20s.

That's pretty embarrassing to say.

But we always had family dinner on the table.

So it has changed for a great challenge, but also, you know, we feel very proud that it's this concept that got us into that list, you know, because I've been cooking other styles of food and I decided that I wanted to do this for Heritage.