Plan your garden or farm with the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator
The Rocky Mountain Growers Directory why buy local and sustainable? How to help support local farms

sample garden layoutJust starting out with gardening? Planning a productive vegetable garden is a lot easier than you imagine. Just remember to start small with your first garden. Even if you have a huge backyard and dream of growing food for family and friends, start off small. Starting small allows you to get the feel of it, to see what grows and what doesn’t, and it can save you some sanity! I’d recommend keeping your first vegetable garden at 100 square feet or less. Using the right techniques, you can grow a surprising amount of food in a garden that size.

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Mountain Rose Herbs. A Herbs, Health & Harmony Com

A study from Ohio State University states that “acute foodborne illnesses cost the United State an estimated $152 billion per year in healthcare, workplace and other economic losses.”

The study, Health-Related Costs from Foodborne Illness in the United States, was written by Dr. Robert L. Scharff, a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) economist and current Ohio State University assistant professor in the department of consumer sciences. The study estimates that more than a quarter of these costs, an estimated $39 billion, are attributable to foodborne illnesses associated with fresh, canned and processed produce.

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Home Greenhouse Basics & Soil Preparation Workshop

March 10, 2010

This workshop will teach you greenhouse basics, and how to maximize small-size greenhouses to start seedlings for transplant and for growing produce in the winter. Also covered will be creating and using compost and preparing planting beds for early crop seeding.
Cost $35
Time: 1:00-4:00 PM
Date: Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Location: 10364 Arapahoe Rd, Lafayette CO 80026
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Gluten-free Spinach and Cheese Gnocchi Recipe

March 8, 2010

Here is the long awaited gluten-free Spinach and Cheese Gnocchi recipe!
Spinach and Cheese Gnocchi
1 lb baking potatoes
1 bunch fresh spinach
4 oz ricotta
4 oz parmesan cheese
1 egg
1 egg yolk
dash of nutmeg
6 tsp xantham gum
1 cup rice flour
3/4 tsp salt
Bake the potatoes until done. Allow to cool.
Rinse, de-stem, then wilt the spinach 5 minutes, drain.
Remove potato skins [...]

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Location Moved for Joel Salatin Presentation: Change We Can Eat!

March 8, 2010

Change We Can Eat!
Suggested Donation at the door: $15.00
Reserve ticket at the Lincoln Box Office (Tues – Sat, noon till 6:00 pm)
What: Joel Salatin on the Emancipation of Food
When: Friday, March 19, 2010, 6-9 PM
Where: Canyon West Room at the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia, corner of Mulberry and Meldrum
Fort Collins, [...]

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Fundraiser for Colorado Local Sustainability

March 3, 2010

Hello Supporters!
This Sunday, March 7th, from 5pm to 8pm in Fort Collins and Boulder, Chipotle Mexican Grill is doing a fundraiser for Colorado Local Sustainability and the Rocky Mountain Growers Directory.  To help support our project, Chipotle will donate 50% of the proceeds when you have dinner at one of their Fort Collins or Boulder [...]

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Workshop this Saturday: Plan your CSA or Garden with the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator

March 3, 2010

Colorado Local Sustainability and HeartEye Village CSA in Lafayette, CO will be offering a workshop on using the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to plan your CSA or garden.
This workshop will teach you how to use the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator to plan your garden or farm plot in order to produce the highest [...]

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Germinating Seeds in a Paper Towel

March 2, 2010

Garden season (as well as farming season) is upon us and if you haven’t already started planning you garden or farm… it is time to get planning!  (And why not use the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to help you get the most out of your farm or garden?)   As part of your planning [...]

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Plow Shares

March 1, 2010

Go to the original article by Christine Muhlke at the NY Times
“Who brought their own wheelbarrow?” Rob Jones asked the group of 20-somethings gathered on a muddy North Carolina farm on a chilly January Sunday. Hands shot up and wheelbarrows were pulled from pickups sporting Led Zeppelin and biodiesel bumper stickers, then parked next to [...]

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Arugula-gate?

February 25, 2010
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While campaigning, Obama asked a group of Iowans, “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”  Obama was trying to make a point that prices at grocery stores have risen, yet farmers haven’t seen their prices go up. Detractors were quick to [...]

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