Community Table
Sustainable? Prove it.
For as many strides as the food industry has made toward sustainability — toward supporting farmers who raise food in environmentally friendly ways and...
Via ice cream
Two torn labrums in my hips,” says Emily Morris of the injury that led her to create a mobile ice cream operation. She’d just...
Arcana Cider’s and Beer Director Jordan Burghardt on cultivating craft cider...
Three years ago, Jordan Burghardt left his post as beer director at The Kitchen to help build a beverage program from scratch at Arcana,...
The new home cooking
Anything that gets more people cooking and interested in local food is a good thing. The self-proclaimed Airbnb of home cooking, Cozymeal, thinks it...
The giving season
When Halloween passes and we push our clocks back for daylight saving time, many of us turn our attentions to the holiday season. Lest...
State of the food scene
Every week in this space, I share just a little bit of the long and interesting conversations I have with Boulder County’s chefs, restaurateurs,...
Goats don’t use Twitter
As an infant, Kallie Beebe was weaned on goat’s milk. Her parents would have to research places that sold goat’s milk when they went...
Satisfaction guaranteed
The seed of what would become Organic Sandwich Company was sewn in the wilds of Michigan, where Marcy Miller and her three sibling spent their...
Illegal Pete’s Pete Turner pays his employees close to $20 per...
Pete Turner made international news a few years back when he refused to submit to outside pressure and change the name of his chain...
Same old seeds?
While other segments of the local food industry suffered immensely from the pandemic in the last year, farmers, by and large, made out OK....
Community’s Chris Teigland on comfort food
Community Chef Chris Teigland is easy-going. People notice.
“Even at work people are like, ‘You’re never mad,’” Teigland says. “I’m a mellow dude. There’s always...
Longmont Food Rescue is saving plates
Every community wastes food. Many just send it to the landfill. More evolved communities connect food suppliers with food banks, and cans of beans...


















