Organ Mountain Outfitters is dedicated to telling local stories of our community. This week we feature 138 Food Truck. You can catch them every Saturday at the Las Cruces Farmer's Market.

Organ Mountain: What's your name and what do you do?

Ben Wood: My name is Ben Wood, I'm the owner of 138 Food Truck.

OM: Tell us about your product and your business.

BW: Our menu changes all the time, what we do is we make almost everything in house from scratch. All of our sauces, proteins, make our own dough, the only thing we don't do is bake our own bread. We move along with what's really exciting to us at the time and we make it from scratch.

OM: What do you think the future holds?

BW: That's a tough question (laughs), I've thought about that a lot. We've thought about brick and mortar and we've thought about kind of branching off and doing another one (truck) and maybe offing this and doing something totally different. But to be honest there's a lot of benefits for what we're doing now, I have kids and I get to spend a lot of time with them, my schedule is a little more flexible than most. So, I feel like we will stick with what we are doing for a while longer. I'm not really closed to any opportunities at this point.

OM: After you leaving the Farmer's Market every Saturday what brings you back?

BW: You know when we have a busy day and the truck's a mess and we're cleaning up and I'm putting everything away and I'm driving this truck away, I have this sense of pride. As I've put it into gear, this is all me and I get to make all the decisions and we get to do whatever we want to do. That makes it really fun and really rewarding. When we come to Farmer's Market we have a lot of repeat customers and people who come and say what are you doing that's new this week or this month and so I feel there's a little bit of a customer connection at the Farmers Market. That's always nice because I feel we are a little bit more in touch with the people we are feeding. I love that, I think it's fun! 

OM: What's your name and what do you do?

Mina Smith: My name is Mina Smith and I'm a line cook and also student midwife but this pays the bills and I really, really enjoy it!

OM: Tell us about your product and your business.

MS: 138, we kind of started out with a very set ideal of what we wanted to do and we weren't taking advantage of the freedom that we had and we also realized we needed to expand more if people were going to buy our food. We make good food from scratch, kind of classics re-done in a way that is inspiring to us and accessible to people of Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

OM: What's the one thing that defines you?