Looking for a local gift idea? You can support a great high school program and get a delicious salsa at the same time! The Grant High GEO Environmental Science and Design Academy (in Del Paso Heights) teaches students all about organic gardening, health and nutrition, landscape design, and environmental science. In their senior year, GEO students can take part in the E.A.T. salsa business. They contract with a local organic grower for tomatoes, follow the produce through processing and bottling, and then take turns selling the salsa at farmer's markets and at the school. You can find them on the first and third Saturdays at the Davis market and the Del Paso Heights farmer's market. The salsa is also sold through the Sacramento Co-op.

Now you can also buy gift baskets for the holidays. For $18 ($15 for Grant students), you get a lovely basket with a jar of either the Traditional Tomato or Spicy Peach Salsa and a bag of tortilla chips. For $24, you get one of each salsa and the chips. For $30 (the best deal), you get the two salsas, a bag of chips, and two beautiful wooden bowls--one large and one small.

Visit the GEO Web site for the order form and contact information, or look for them at this Saturday's Davis farmer's market. I've had both salsas and they're delicious--as well as local and organic. Support this great cause!