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...baked daily on a stone hearth, giving the bread a flavor similar to that cooked in a wood-fired oven. Known as artisan bread, the dough is made from water, salt, yeast and a special organic wheat flour. Cloud Cliffs specialty, is "Pan Nativo," Spanish for native bread.
Pan Nativo has been Cloud Cliff's best-selling product for several years, accounting for up to half of Cloud Cliff's wholesale income. The flour it's made from is high in protein and gluten, and it comes from one place only: the organic wheat fields of the Sangre de Cristo Agricultural Producers Cooperative.
Co-op helps boost rural incomes
One hundred miles north of Santa Fe, along the New Mexico-Colorado border, members of the Sangre de Cristo Agricultural Producers Cooperative have just planted their 11th grain crop. From September's expected harvest, they hope to produce a record crop of more than 400,000 pounds of organic wheat, which will be milled into flour and sold to local bakeries and restaurants like Cloud Cliff.
The co-op has come a long way since...
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