Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

• Precociously conquering chapped chickens and animal welfare standards

  Friday, January 27th, 2012

  by Blair Madole Shelby’s Happy Chapped Chicken Butt Farm is an Animal Welfare Approved farm based in Broomfield that produces chicken eggs. Though the name certainly raises eyebrows, the more intriguing aspect of the farm is its founder, 12-year-old Shelby Grebenc of Rocky Top Middle School. Shelby began her education about chickens when she was six, performing basic [...]

• Anti-GMO crowd reacts to decision

  Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

  Activists opposed to genetically engineered foods are not singing the same tune when it comes to reaction to the Boulder County commissioners’ Dec. 20 decision to allow additional genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on taxpayer-funded open space.

• Drifting toward answers on lost crops

  Thursday, December 8th, 2011

  If you shop with any regularity at the Abbondanza stall at the farmers’ market, you might have noticed some gaps in their inventory this fall. Dried beans and winter squash are mostly what Shanan Olson, co-owner, says people have commented on missing. They ask why, and she’s not sure how to reply. Pesticide drift on their organic-certified farm in 2010 cost most of their fall harvest, a $250,000 loss. At least, that’s what they can piece together. What really happened to their crop has been a complicated puzzle to solve.

• Wild meat

  Friday, October 7th, 2011

  With outbreaks of E. coli and a growing awareness that factory-farmed meat may be unhealthy, there is a growing movement for organic meat. But with grass-fed and hormone- and antibiotic-free meat too expensive for many consumers, more people are advocating hunting as a means of procuring top-quality organic meat.

• Cultivating farmers on small farms

  Thursday, July 28th, 2011

  Rows of squash, beans, corn, broccoli, lettuce, potatoes and tomatoes are tended by apprentice farmers, coming out even on the recent blazing hot afternoons to plant seeds, pull weeds and cover potato plants in hay and dirt on a small farm off the Diagonal Highway near Niwot. The one-acre Everybody Eats! farm is planted on 3.5 acres of land leased from the Shepherd Valley Waldorf School. The farm was founded by Dave Georgis, who started the seeds now planted in neat, student-friendly rows in his basement earlier this spring.

  Everybody Eats! is one of several farms and school partnerships in the Boulder area.

• The return of Alfalfa’s

  Thursday, July 29th, 2010

  Boulder institution makes a comeback By Lauren Duncan Along with Boulder landmarks like McGuckin Hardware and the Boulder Book Store, Alfalfa’s grocery remained a local standby for 13 years. Locals were crushed when the store, which pioneered the model for natural foods supermarkets, was bought by Wild Oats in 1996. Nearly a decade and a [...]

• First tomato of the season

  Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

  Whether it’s genetics or zeitgeist, I felt compelled last year to start a vegetable garden. My younger son, now grown, helped me plant a test garden of sorts, haphazardly sowing veggies amid our flowers and opening up one vegetable bed, in which we planted green beans, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers and squash. It was an exciting time, as we both crept out to the garden each morning to see what had sprouted. Though we didn’t plant that much, we got so much food out of that last-minute agricultural experiment that we decided it was time to become full-blown urban farmers.

• Civil dialogues about food can lead to understanding and change

  Monday, January 11th, 2010

  One of the more pleasing developments of the last decade has been the long-overdue beginning of a national conversation about food — not just the arcane techniques used to prepare it and the luxurious restaurants in which it is served, but, much more important, how it is grown and produced.

• Buy local … beers

  Friday, January 8th, 2010

  What better way to support local than by patronizing your local brewery. Check out these upcoming brewery events.

• 14th Annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival

  Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

  The 14th Annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival comes at the perfect time, in the beginning of the new year, when we all are rethinking our dietary and fitness regime. The festival is this Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout Lafayette. The festival includes an oatmeal breakfast, 5K walk/run, health fair, oatmeal-baking contest and the Oatmeal Creation Challenge.