All Clippings From The ‘Food and Wine’ Category
North Fork Foods
Making Bread With Bread, and Planting Potatoes Soon after the Colorado Cottage Foods Act was signed, the bakers from Small Potatoes Farm took the County’s Safe Food Handling class, a requirement for working under the Act. We commenced baking in…Click to view post »
North Fork Foods
Lilac buds are swelling, rhubarb leaves are showing, and French sorrel is irresistible. Garlic grew at least 4 inches the first week (a warm one) it was up. Iris leaves have sliced their way through the earth, and spinach is…Click to view post »
Agri-Culture ~ It’s What’s Growing in the North Fork
Applejack Distillery Proposed For Holy Terror Farm Chris Myles would like to build and operate an “applejack” distillery in a building at Allison Gannett and Jason Trimm’s Holy Terror Farm near Paonia. There is just one small problem: funding. Miles…Click to view post »
VOGA Annual Meeting Highlights Year~Growth Seen in Future
The board of directors of the Valley Organic Growers Association reported to their membership at their January 10 annual meeting that the organization is strong, active and growing. In 2011, membership in the organization increased from 83 members to 96…Click to view post »
North Fork Food
Kittens in the Woodpile, Politics and Mid-Winter The days are clearly lengthening. February 4th is the crossquarter day, halfway between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. More than likely there will still be plenty of cold, and hopefully, plenty of…Click to view post »
Helping Hands Wins Kids’ Pasta Project Building Bridges Award
The Kids’ Pasta Project prepares healthy, homemade meals and gives the profits to local organizations. When possible, food is prepared with local ingredients. The Kids’ Pasta Project teaches kids new skills and empowers them to serve their local community. On…Click to view post »
North Fork Chickens in Winter
It was January and the chickens were on strike. In my past few years of attempting to eat more locally there always seems to be a month or two in deep winter when my regular egg supplier falls down on…Click to view post »
Fellowship of Preparation Makers 2012 Conference Comes to Hotchkiss March 1-4
The mission of the Fellowship of Preparation Makers is to foster the growth of the community of Biodynamic Preparation Makers throughout North America. Their goal is to ensure availability of quality biodynamic preparations in North America, now and into the…Click to view post »
Agri-Culture: It’s What’s Growing in the North Fork
Hotchkiss Site of National Biodynamic Agriculture Conference Theme: Harmonizing Through Polarities In their eleventh year of annual conferences, the biodynamic agricultural Fellowship of Preparation Makers will meet at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss and address the “idea” of polarity as it…Click to view post »
Seed Thoughts For the New Year
A long, drawn-out Spring, short Summer, and very long Fall somehow added up to a year gone by in a flash. And yet, there are so many memories—of good friends, good times, rainbows, sunshine and storms, warmth and cold, Bake…Click to view post »
