Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

• To cleanse or not to cleanse

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  Opinions vary in the detox debate by Hadley Vandiver From detoxifying diets to juice fasts, different dietary cleanses abound, claiming to rid your system of toxins and help you lose weight. People who regularly cleanse say they feel better, look thinner and think more clearly after a cleanse. But some dietitians argue that your body [...]

• How to make your own kombucha

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  Homebrewer, High Country founder share processes, tips and secrets to their creations by Jessie Lucier More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese considered kombucha an immortal health elixir. Some avid drinkers of the fermented tea beverage might say just the same today. In recent years, kombucha has gained widespread popularity among Westerners who drink [...]

• Recipes on the range

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Local farmers share favorite dishes by Clay Fong As spring arrives, most foodies’ thoughts turn to the local produce making its way to area farmers’ markets. To help usher in the fresh produce season, Boulderganic asked three county farms to share a favorite recipe that makes the most of their bounty. Ollin Farms Nestled between [...]

• Eating your legislation

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  This year’s farm bill has a chance to support local, organic food systems by Clay Fong Federal farm bills are the 400-pound gorilla of American agricultural policy, setting direction for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), if not the entirety of domestic farming. The last one was passed in 2008, and consisted of a [...]

• Urban herbs

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Starting small with an herb garden by Amanda Moutinho If a full-fledged garden sounds like too much work, consider scaling back and springing for an herb garden. Find a sunny windowsill, or plant them alongside a bigger plant and enjoy fresh herbs instead of store-bought ones. The list of herbs to grow includes basil, thyme, [...]

• No lawn? No problem

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  How to start your own apartment garden by Amanda Moutinho Locally grown food just got closer. If you crave the flavor of home-grown carrots or cucumbers, the taste can be yours, even if you don’t have a backyard. You can grow a garden just as delicious (if not as plentiful), with no more space than [...]

• Digging in to organic gardening

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Ask four experts about how to make a garden grow, and you’ll get four different pieces of advice. What the experts have to say about cultivating healthy soil and when and where to water varies, but then, so do backyards. Familiarize yourself first with the term “microclimate.” Your backyard has one, and the amount of shade it gets, the soil in it and the nearest water sources will all play into what you can grow and how to successfully grow it. But for a novice gardener, a few tips from the pros can be helpful just getting off the ground — or rather, getting your seeds to come up through it.
  Here, a few local gardening experts share their knowledge on everything from soil to sun, watering to pests, and what plants a first-time gardener can have most success with.

• 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.