Plants stolen from school’s educational veggie garden
How do you get the lamest street-cred ever? You steal plants from an elementary school’s educational vegetable garden. The Smith Renaissance School of the Arts, located in northeast Denver, got...
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Community Food Share, Sister Carmen Center, others want to make fresh food...
Bert Nett (front), John Spencer (back left) and Jane Spencer (right) plant squash seeds at an Earth's Table garden in Boulder | CAMERA/Mark Leffingwell If there’s one thing the United States isn’t...
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How to make a solar cooker at home
Solar cooker baking zucchini bread | flickr user davidsilver A solar cooker is a simple way to use and understand a resource Boulder has in abundance: sunlight. Simple cookers require such basic...
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Vegetarian recipe: I choo-choo-choose chorizo tomato taco soup
The tomato soup and an accompanying lemonade. There’s really no better way to save money on food than a slow cooker, and I’m a firm believer that crock pots can result in food with a lot of flavor...
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Raw milk controversy foams up in Boulder County
Bill Campbell, of the Billy Goat Dairy of Longmont, prepares to milk his goats on Thursday | Daily Camera Raw Milk — you know the kind that’s fresh from the cow (or goat), not pasteurized, and...
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Boulder Farmers’ Market among “Top 10 farmers markets in U.S.”
File photo: Mark Guttridge, of Ollin Farms, at right, passes on a bag of fresh spinach to Steve Toon on the first Wednesday night of the Boulder Farmers' Market in 2010. Toon from Golden, works in...
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Ted’s donates $2,000 to CRC
Obligatory giant check photo. Where do you recycle a giant check? I don’t usually take much notice of the various donations and so on given in town — we’re fortunate enough to live in a place where...
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Can GMO crops and organic farming live happily ever after?
Last year in Boulder County, the question of whether or not to allow genetically modified sugar beets to be grown on land owned by the county was hotly debated. Real hotly. (Like, hundreds of people...
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Green Drinks Boulder: November at Jill’s
Green Drinks November at Jill's As if we haven’t had enough to eat and drink this month, Green Drinks capped November off with another enjoyable round of sustainable gluttony. It was a blast. I...
View ArticleWinter Bike to Work Day: Great Success
Did you read that title in your best Borat impersonation? Because that’s how I wrote it. If not, here’s the man himself. So Winter Bike to Work Day was in fact, a great success. You see, people like to...
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