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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

For more information contact Tracy at 303-665-6309, email: hearteyelandtrust@gmail.com

Or visit: www.hearteyevillagecsa.com

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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 (these are great with a bit of cheese and/or sour cream and put under the broiler for a few minutes). [click to continue…]

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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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Organic snack bars recalled due to possible Salmonella

February 23, 2010

Several types of Health Valley Granola Bars have recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination from toasted soy grits.
The national recall by Lovin Oven LLC of Irwindale, Calif., is for Health Valley Organic Peanut Crunch, Dutch Apple and Wildberry Chewy Granola Bars. Those products contain soy grits supplied by Thumb Oilseed Producers Cooperative of Ubly, Mich., [...]

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Addressing All the Components of Local Food

February 22, 2010

The full and original article by Steph Larsen can be found on Huffington Post.
These days it seems the most popular person to be in the food system is the “local farmer”. Farmers markets are popping up everywhere, and their size and popularity grow all the time. Local food is trendy – even the First Family is [...]

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