Now, I'll be honest, I wa very good at eating tortillas.

I was not very good at making them.

Tonight we'll be making tortillas, and this will be our first adult tortilla workshop.

tortillas aren't a new thing.

they were here and they they were in existence long before the Spanish came.

And, it's something that, you know, has been an indigenous tradition in this area for much longer than any of us have been here in any of the other settlers.

Came into this area.

And so it's a tradition, that's been very special to people here for much longer than anyone else can even imagine.

you know, it wasn't until the Spanish came and brought, brought wheat, to this area that we have the flour tortilla that we know today, which has become, something that's very special to us here versus the corn at the end.

Indigenous used before the Spanish came in I was very blessed to be able to have my grandma as part of my daily life.

She had a restaurant that she ran for 47 years, and it was actually right in front of the house that I grew up in I'd go spend the day my grandma at the restaurant.

so that was just always a special time for me.

it really motivated me to continue to, to do that with others.

So, brings us together as a community.

inviting everybody to come together.

with food As the focus and, just creating an environment where everyone can feel comfortable just playing and experimenting, trying, perhaps trying something new.