Forwarded from Free State Colorado
IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS!
Local Farms Expand CSA Offerings for Easy Access to Produce, Meat, Eggs and More
DUSTIN BAILEY FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Throughout the pandemic, supply-chain issues have revealed cracks in our food system — and at times resulted in emptier-than-usual shelves at the grocery store. But the Front Range is home to a number of local producers, and over the past two years, many farmers have transformed their operations in order to connect more people to the local food network — including expanding their CSA (community supported agriculture) offerings.
A CSA share is a lump sum payment made in February or March to your local farmer. In turn, the purchaser receives a box full of produce each week throughout the spring, summer and fall. The up-front cost for a CSA share can be intimidating. For example, a small farm share from Cure Organic Farm in Boulder, which feeds one to two people for twenty weeks, is $415 — but that averages out to just $20.75 per week for a substantial amount of high-quality, fresh local produce. Not only does it cut back on your grocery bill, but it's also a way to pay it forward, giving farmers who have taken the winter off the funds needed to start up the season.
An example box for May could include garlic scapes, fresh garlic, snap peas, spring salad mix, overwintered spinach, cucumbers, fresh Western Slope cherries and apricots, arugula, breakfast radishes, purple potatoes, summer squash, or whatever specialty crops your local farmer decided to plant. The benefit of this system is that the snap peas — or any produce, for that matter — in your CSA were likely picked from the plant that same morning, resulting in a far more flavorful product than produce from large grocery stores.
https://www.westword.com/restaurants/csa-shares-cure-organic-farm-ollin-farms-13500765
Local Farms Expand CSA Offerings for Easy Access to Produce, Meat, Eggs and More
DUSTIN BAILEY FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Throughout the pandemic, supply-chain issues have revealed cracks in our food system — and at times resulted in emptier-than-usual shelves at the grocery store. But the Front Range is home to a number of local producers, and over the past two years, many farmers have transformed their operations in order to connect more people to the local food network — including expanding their CSA (community supported agriculture) offerings.
A CSA share is a lump sum payment made in February or March to your local farmer. In turn, the purchaser receives a box full of produce each week throughout the spring, summer and fall. The up-front cost for a CSA share can be intimidating. For example, a small farm share from Cure Organic Farm in Boulder, which feeds one to two people for twenty weeks, is $415 — but that averages out to just $20.75 per week for a substantial amount of high-quality, fresh local produce. Not only does it cut back on your grocery bill, but it's also a way to pay it forward, giving farmers who have taken the winter off the funds needed to start up the season.
An example box for May could include garlic scapes, fresh garlic, snap peas, spring salad mix, overwintered spinach, cucumbers, fresh Western Slope cherries and apricots, arugula, breakfast radishes, purple potatoes, summer squash, or whatever specialty crops your local farmer decided to plant. The benefit of this system is that the snap peas — or any produce, for that matter — in your CSA were likely picked from the plant that same morning, resulting in a far more flavorful product than produce from large grocery stores.
https://www.westword.com/restaurants/csa-shares-cure-organic-farm-ollin-farms-13500765
Westword
Local Farms Expand CSA Offerings for Easy Access to Produce, Meat, Eggs and More
The time to buy-in is now.
Forwarded from Tyann Copperhawk
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Welcome to the Boulder Seed Swap and Dance Party!
Calling all gardners, Green Thumbs, and farmers! The Boulder Seed Swap is an opportunity to get together and share your seeds from last season while we groove to the tunes of Bloomarian
Do you have a box of seed packets that you hardly ever touch?
Seeds you saved from last season from your harvest?
Or maybe you’ve just bought your seeds for this year but want more variety?
On March 5th at 4pm the Urban Farm Stand to meet up with your fellow gardeners and local farmers to share your seeds!
Not just seeds for your garden, share the seeds of your vision!!
Businesses, projects, campaigns, ideas…this event is all about regenerating local culture. Just like the bacterial culture that creates healthy topsoil, our social culture needs the right nutrients for a thriving local produce (economy) to grow.
Details:
March 5th 4pm-6pm
The Urban Farm Stand
1201 Arapaho Ave
Boulder CO 80302
Welcome to the Boulder Seed Swap and Dance Party!
Calling all gardners, Green Thumbs, and farmers! The Boulder Seed Swap is an opportunity to get together and share your seeds from last season while we groove to the tunes of Bloomarian
Do you have a box of seed packets that you hardly ever touch?
Seeds you saved from last season from your harvest?
Or maybe you’ve just bought your seeds for this year but want more variety?
On March 5th at 4pm the Urban Farm Stand to meet up with your fellow gardeners and local farmers to share your seeds!
Not just seeds for your garden, share the seeds of your vision!!
Businesses, projects, campaigns, ideas…this event is all about regenerating local culture. Just like the bacterial culture that creates healthy topsoil, our social culture needs the right nutrients for a thriving local produce (economy) to grow.
Details:
March 5th 4pm-6pm
The Urban Farm Stand
1201 Arapaho Ave
Boulder CO 80302
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Interesting: the WEF has just removed their page describing their partnership with Coinbase. Just as Canada/US try to codify their ability to seize assets from anyone at any time.
What are they trying to hide? As the Kraken CEO says "GET YOUR COIN OUT OF CENTRAL EXCHANGES." [good advice btw. better advise: buy seeds.]
It was here, now 404: https://www.weforum.org/organizations/coinbase
It can still be viewed from archive.org here.
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WEF: Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Blockchain and Digital Assets
@ https://web.archive.org/web/20220219140454/https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-technology-governance-blockchain-and-distributed-ledger-technologies/
What are they trying to hide? As the Kraken CEO says "GET YOUR COIN OUT OF CENTRAL EXCHANGES." [good advice btw. better advise: buy seeds.]
It was here, now 404: https://www.weforum.org/organizations/coinbase
It can still be viewed from archive.org here.
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WEF: Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Blockchain and Digital Assets
@ https://web.archive.org/web/20220219140454/https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-technology-governance-blockchain-and-distributed-ledger-technologies/
World Economic Forum
Coinbase
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not…
Forwarded from Ice Age Farmer
Please don’t tell me you don’t have enough space to grow food.
Get creative. Get to work. Inspire your neighbors.
If just 1 in 3 families had a small laying flock of chickens in their backyard, we eliminate the commercial egg industry.
We don’t need industrial agriculture. They need us.
RUN—DON’T WALK—AWAY! TAKE BACK YOUR POWER!
Get creative. Get to work. Inspire your neighbors.
If just 1 in 3 families had a small laying flock of chickens in their backyard, we eliminate the commercial egg industry.
We don’t need industrial agriculture. They need us.
RUN—DON’T WALK—AWAY! TAKE BACK YOUR POWER!
Forwarded from No Mandates Colorado
Dictator Polis says vaccinated people can live their “Live their life Normally” 🤡🥴🤡
What a joke. This is why we need to keep supporting ALL peaceful protests and speaking truth
https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/polis-announcement/73-b55af30f-fcbb-4077-b4ea-7010b76831ad?fbclid=IwAR31cEjjjHshwc0scPDA6MVlFNnv1eedBpf6x-k0omZ-AM7Dyo-ydjxTGrw
@nomaskmandates
What a joke. This is why we need to keep supporting ALL peaceful protests and speaking truth
https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/polis-announcement/73-b55af30f-fcbb-4077-b4ea-7010b76831ad?fbclid=IwAR31cEjjjHshwc0scPDA6MVlFNnv1eedBpf6x-k0omZ-AM7Dyo-ydjxTGrw
@nomaskmandates
Forwarded from Greene Fyre Review (Greene Fyre)
Colorado is a proud participant. https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out/?sh=95454f66be67
Forbes
A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board
Half of all US states now make the SMART Health Card accessible to their residents or have plans to do so soon.
Forwarded from The Rio Times
NZ high court has ruled vaccine mandates unlawful and has ordered that employees stood down be reinstated immediately.
If Australia ignores this decision, it will be the political death of all those supporting jab mandates.
If Australia ignores this decision, it will be the political death of all those supporting jab mandates.