Archive for the ‘Local Businesses’ 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 [...]

• A greener MLK day

  Monday, January 16th, 2012

  Across the country today, Americans are honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by participating in community service projects. (Even the president and his family are doing it.)

• 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.

• Shop local services

  Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

  This year, you could give gifts. Or, you could give the gift of a stronger local economy, more jobs, more money for local charities and more tax dollars for infrastructure by buying services instead of goods. Spa treatments, haircuts, house cleaning, massages and computer help are all examples of services that can be purchased from locally owned businesses.

• American Express offers credit for Small Business Saturday

  Monday, November 21st, 2011

  American Express is offering card holders a $25 credit if they register their cards in advance and make a purchase of $25 or more at a local business on Saturday, Nov. 26 as part of their second annual “Small Business Saturday.”

• The dirtiest way to get clean

  Thursday, October 13th, 2011

  When Loveland started to redevelop its downtown area a few years ago, city planners knew one of its proposed building sites, a dry cleaning facility called Leslie the Cleaner, should at least undergo a preliminary environmental assessment.

  The results were to be expected, according to Tracy Turner-Naranjo, environmental compliance administrator for the City of Loveland. The city did a more thorough analysis and found soil and groundwater contamination.

• Beyond green homes

  Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

  Prepare to be amazed. Or surprised. Or jealous. This year’s Tour of Sustainable Homes, formerly the Tour of Solar and Green Homes, has planned a day of programming designed to let you get acquainted with more than your neighbors’ solar panels.

• Creatively building community

  Friday, September 16th, 2011

  Though the general rule is not to play in the street for fear of cars, the pedestrians of Boulder will have the opportunity to take over a vehicular domain and do just that this coming weekend.

• New B-cycle station will provide greater east Boulder access

  Thursday, August 25th, 2011

  Boulder B-cycle has announced the installation of a new B-cycle station at The Village Shopping Center, at Arapahoe, Canyon, Folsom and 28th Street.

• Teagan and Mack

  Thursday, October 21st, 2010

  Business takes baby steps in eco-entrepreneurship By Charmaine Ortega Getz Lisa and Glenn Cratty were looking for a better quality of life when they relocated their young family to Louisville from Los Angeles in 2009. But while looking for another job in her field of corporate management, Lisa realized that the dream could still elude [...]