A Family Ranch Day Near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Rancho Xotolar has been in the Morin Ruiz family for more than four generations, and it’s still a working ranch about an hour outside San Miguel de Allende. We spent a full day there, starting with milking cows and making cheese.

Then we saddled up for a horseback ride through the rustic canyons before cooking tacos from scratch over an open fire. The fillings were fresh-harvested prickly pear cactus, potatoes, beans and the ranch cheese we’d made that morning, all wrapped in homemade blue corn tortillas. It was a hands-on day the kids won’t forget.