Gardening, local food & HGF events:
Below are the next three upcoming events. View our Calendar to learn more about events in Fort Collins and surrounding areas over the next couple of months.
Sat - Jan 28 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Be Local Winter Farmers Market
Sat - Feb 11 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Be Local Winter Farmers Market
Sat - Feb 25 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Be Local Winter Farmers Market
What we do:
- Give public talks on growing your own food.
- Sponsor public workshops to educate the community members.
- Maintain a Google Group for ongoing discussion and resource lists.
- Hold monthly discussion groups on gardening and local food topics.
- Coordinate publicity and car pools to out-of-town events.
- Work with and through local media to provide perspectives promoting local food issues.
- Mentor new gardeners.
Current Google Group Discussions
A nifty new indoor seed starting idea -- LED christmas lights in a rubbermaid box
At the bottom of this post are two followups detailing how they plants
are growing.
- Sue Sullivan
A blog post calling Foodies to rethink how we communicate the value of eating well and ethically
Ran across this post:
I liked this and thought others might be interested in it as well:
An excerpt:
Here in the Foodie Bubble, we forget that not everyone spends their
free time chasing down raw milk producers or waiting for the perfect
- Sue Sullivan
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, Apr. 7 - 15 and Apr. 27 - 29, Raindrop
Retreat, Ft. Collins. Instructors: Kelly Simmons and Jason Gerhardt.
This course is hosted by the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Center
and takes place in a beautiful location at the mouth of the Poudre
River Canyon. Classes are broken up between a 9-day stretch and a
- Tara L Parr





