Archive for the ‘Local Businesses’ Category

• Local farm loses the battle against local government

  Thursday, May 17th, 2012

  by Hadley Vandiver After years of fighting Boulder County land use codes and regulations, Zia Parker is selling her farm and moving with her husband to Ecuador in hopes that running a permaculture farm will encounter fewer obstacles in the South American country. Parker’s farm, Willow Way, is a permaculture herb farm and herbal CSA [...]

• Spring Boulderganic: Got gardening on the brain?

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  This time of year, a lot of people are spending time thinking about what they’re going to eat. They’re planning and planting gardens that will yield produce all summer long, providing directives on whether it’s a week for salads, or one for zucchini bread, BLTs or snap peas. In some ways, this issue is a [...]

• Just a little loan

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  Microloans boost sustainable businesses at home in addition to overseas by Tate Zandstra Organic, local, sustainable food seems to be a growing trend in America, but it’s also a trend that almost inevitably means higher prices. When most people think of microfinance, likely what comes to mind are images of the developing world: very poor, [...]

• Women to watch in sustainable business

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  Three locals who have made a mark by Travis Mannon Boulder County is home to some incredible women who, on top of running or owning a sustainable business, are also leaders in their community, working to educate and encourage others to be more eco-friendly. Boulderganic caught up with a few of the women to talk [...]

• City, Xcel square off over solar, wind programs

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  The latest skirmish in the municipalization battle between Xcel and the city of Boulder revolves around solar and wind energy programs.

• Fiber problems

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Now that Boulder residents approved ballot measures to move the city towards exploring municipalizing the electric utility, the future of Xcel’s Smart Grid infrastructure investments lays in limbo.

• Green Building Guild starts serving the state

  Friday, March 16th, 2012

  The Boulder Green Building Guild is changing its name and mission. The Guild is now the Colorado Green Building Guild, with a new mission of helping the entire state in its endeavor to go green. Don’t worry though Boulderites, the Guild won’t forget about you. Sharing is caring, right? “The Guild is in a process [...]

• 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.