Golden Chile Award

Posted Date: 10/01/2024

Beth Fair leads Elida School’s food program and sometimes meets farmers about an hour away to expand her local food options beyond Roosevelt County. She buys a variety of produce from Veggie Shack in Portales as well as MTA Farms, a new producer for schools in her region.

Fair’s school earned the highest award in the Golden Chile Awards Program for their school garden, Fair’s dedication to scratch cooking, her creative taste testing and promotion of locally grown food. She consistently introduces students to new foods and invents recipes to avoid food waste. Recently she made lemonade and jelly from prickly pears she harvested from a local church’s cactus.

“I do my best to be really resourceful,” she said. “Anytime you can eliminate the processed stuff, the food is better for everyone.”

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