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Colorado Local Sustainability - Supporting Local, Sustainable Food & Farms
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Local food and sustainable farming news, as well as an online directory of sustainable farms in and around Colorado
Recent Posts
Recipes: Moroccan mint tea, authentic Indian chai, and ginger-lemon infusion
Fresh ingredients liven up the hot drinks repertoire. Photo: Haley Fox Moroccan Mint Tea My roommate in college is from Casablanca, Morocco, and this is how her mother told me to make this traditional drink. It is very sweet and refreshing in ho...
Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food
By Robert Roy Britt on LiveScience: U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories wor...
Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator Training Video
We’ve completed the introductory training video for the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator and are making it available here, as well as on the LandShare Colorado site, which is the home of the FFGC. For a high resolution, downloadable versi...
Bok Choy: The Solution to Overfishing?
photo Barry Estabrook Aquaponics continues to intrigue me, and whenever I get around to having a greenhouse of my own, I plan to give it a try, at least on a small scale. This week The Atlantic ran this article Barry Estabrook, Bok Choy: The So...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Colorado Local Sustainability and the Rocky Mountain Growers Directory wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving! We’d love to hear what recipes you made for your holiday meal, whether they were omnivore, vegetarian, or vegan… local or not....
Local Food Systems Video
Dan Rather Reports aired this great report on a local food system in Vermont. High Mowing Organic Seeds on “Dan Rather Reports” from High Mowing Organic Seeds on Vimeo....

