We offer free workshops at the Eat Local Tent about our local food system and farms. See the schedule below.
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Saturday Schedule:
11- 11:50 am, Local Fossil Creek Farm Kale
Learn how to incorporate one of the healthiest vegetables in your diet in three easy recipes. First we will make a kale, avocado and lemon salad, then a quick and easy kale pesto followed by adding kale to your favorite smoothie.
Linda Judge has been with Whole Foods for 5.5 years and the Healthy Eating Specialist for almost a year. She enjoys all kinds of cooking and baking, hanging with her two daughters and living the Colorado life. www.wholefoodsmarket.com
12- 12:50 pm Growing Microgreens
This workshop will give you tips and tricks to help you get started growing microgreens to add extra nutrients, color, and flavor to your meals.
Kathy Hatfield of Raspberry Hill Farm is passionate about organic farming and living lightly on the earth. She owns a small flower/vegetable farm in Wellington, CO, where she grows non-certified organic flowers for weddings and other events. With her daughter, Chelsea Glanz, she grows microgreens for sale to restaurants and CSA shareholders. www.
1- 1:50 pm Incorporating Raw Foods into Everyday Life
A fun and engaging presentation on how to bring more nutrient dense foods into your already existing lifestyle. Join Sacha Steinhauser, and his magical blender to create easy smoothies using nature’s state of the art technology (known as plants). You will help create and taste energizing superfood elixirs while gaining insights into how plants help keep disease away.
Sacha Steinhauser owns Tasty Harmony, an organic vegetarian restaurant in downtown Fort Collins. He has spent most of his life finding ways to connect people with plants. His wife Jill grows food for the restaurant and together they are raising five kids here in Fort Collins.www.tastyharmony.
2- 3:50 pm Aquaponic Gardening
Aquaponics is a revolutionary system for growing plants by fertilizing them with the waste water from fish in a sustainable closed system. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponic gardening is an amazingly productive way to grow organic vegetables, greens, herbs, and fruits, while providing the added benefits of fresh fish as a safe, healthy source of protein. On a backyard scale aquaponic systems can be built from reclaimed materials and thrive on fish feed you can grow yourself. On a larger scale, it is a key solution to mitigating food insecurity, climate change, groundwater pollution, and the impacts of overfishing on our oceans.
Sylvia Bernstein is the President and Founder of The Aquaponic Source, based in Longmont, Colorado, and the award-winning author of “Aquaponic Gardening: A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together”. She also runs the Aquaponic Gardening Community, the world’s largest online community site dedicated to aquaponic gardening, and is a co-Founder and former Vice Chairman of the Aquaponics Association. She teaches and speaks extensively about aquaponics and its exciting potential.In her recent past life Sylvia was the VP of Marketing and Product Development for AeroGrow International, the makers of the AeroGarden. She was one of the company’s original founders and was instrumental in developing the plant growth technology. Sylvia has a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, Alan. They have a large, thriving aquaponic setup in their backyard greenhouse in Boulder powered by tilapia, goldfish, and other creatures-that-swim. http://
3-3:50 pm Beginning Chickens
Want chickens? Learn the basics to convince you that you too can become a backyard flockster! We will discuss the fundamental requirements for happy chicken ownership. Topics include feed/water needs and equipment options; shelter and predator protection requirements including coop design elements; breed selection; startup and maintenance costs, and more.
Greg Michaud and his wife, Patty, operate the Old Feed Store in Laporte, CO. In addition to chickens, the Old Feed Store offers a wide variety of feed selections and common sense advice for sustainable living.
4- 4:50 pm Advanced Chicken Keeping
Got chickens? This workshop will discuss advanced poultry topics such as brooding home-grown chicks, providing local/natural food sources, disease and pest problems, raising poultry for meat, use of chicken tractors and egg mobiles, culling non-producing hens, winter management issues, and other areas of interest to experienced flocksters.
Greg Michaud and his wife, Patty, operate the Old Feed Store in Laporte, CO. In addition to chickens, the Old Feed Store offers a wide variety of feed selections and common sense advice for sustainable living.
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Sunday Schedule:
11- 11:50 am, Preserving the Harvest: Fun with Fermentation!
Bountiful harvest? Don’t “can”, culture! While canning kills precious enzymes that every body needs to be well, lacto-fermentation adds them! Lacto-fermentation is an age-old technique to preserve food that adds precious enzymes and increases vitamin content, including Vitamin C. This technique also produces “gut good guys”, or lactobacilli that are necessary for efficient digestion and overall health. Anyone can do it: lacto-fermentation is easy, fast, cheap, and packed with nutritional benefits. A true “value-added” process!
Monica Corrado, CNC, is a teaching chef and holistic Certified Nutrition Consultant. She carries the title “Lacto-fermentation Queen” since being featured in the Washington Post article “Fermentation: A wild way to make food come to life” in September 2010. Monica has taught hundreds of people how to cook nourishing, traditional food over the past seven years, given numerous workshops and talks and been on FRESH panels with Sally Fallon Morell, founder and president of the Weston A. Price Foundation and Joel Salatin, the self-proclaimed Lunatic Farmer of Polyface Farm. On the forefront of sustainable and local food movement, Monica was a founding member of one of the first CSAs in the Washington, DC metro area in 1998. She has owned her own biodynamic and organic catering company, and now spends her time flying around the country teaching people how to cook traditional food. She is an adjunct professor in the Masters of Integrative Health and Nutrition at the Maryland University of Integrated Health, and is on faculty on the Farm to Table Culinary Academy at Sunrise Ranch. Monica is also a member of the Honorary Board of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Monica moved to Loveland with her family in November 2011. For more information about Monica and her teaching schedule, see www.simplybeingwell.com.
12- 12:50 pm Investing in Your Local Foodshed
Come learn about local investing opportunities in farm and food enterprises: Slow Money Clubs pooling funds for microloans, unique Credibles combining CSA model and Crowd Funding, and other innovative tools.
Gailmarie Kimmel, former Board Member with SLA, founder of Be Local Coupon Book and Eat Local Food Map, co-founder of the Winter Markets, and currently also on staff with LoCo Food Distribution, is joined on this panel by her colleagues at Local Food Shift and Slow Money. localfoodshift.
1- 1:50 pm, Who’s Your CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a locally based food distribution system that creates a direct link between farmers and consumers. Individuals pre-purchase a “share” of the farm’s harvest in the spring when expenses are highest for the farmer. In exchange, CSA members receive a weekly box of freshly picked organic produce as it becomes available throughout the growing season. This mutually beneficial partnership helps ensure a more secure market for small farms struggling to compete with larger, less sustainable farms, as well as ensures members consistent access to healthier, safer, and tastier food.
Nic Koontz & Katie Slota, Native Hill Farms have combined their passions for farming, environmental health, and community fortification to bring high quality produce to the good folks of Fort Collins. This will be their 5th season as Native Hill and they are excited for another great growing season on the Front Range. nativehillfarm.
3:30- 4:30 pm, A Truly Sustainable Diet for the 21st Century
A truly sustainable diet will provide for optimal human health AND long-lasting environmental health. Learn how to eat for the well-being of you and your family and the earth!
Nancy Eason is passionate about organic gardening, cooking good food, and teaching the Weston A. Price way to eat. She will be joined in the presentation by Monica Corrado, another passionate cook on the Weston A. Price way to eat. wapffc.org