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Cottage foods 2.0
The 2012 Colorado Cottage Foods Act was supposed to allow farmers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to make foods in their home kitchens and sell them to consumers, offering farmers an extra revenue stream and entrepreneurs a testing ground for business ideas...
Boulder’s green economy brings in the green
Five and half years after the collapse of the global financial market, fingers are still being pointed: at the wealthy for reckless trading, at the poor for living above their means, at Republicans for deregulating, at Democrats for runaway spending...
Speeding toward fitness
"A seven-minute workout can be efficacious,” says Glen Cordoza, co-author of Power Speed Endurance: A Skill-Based Approach to Endurance Training, a book detailing Crossfit founder and triathlon coach Brian MacKenzie’s revolutionary short, intense approach to training...
Personal healing and preservation: An herbalist’s manifesto
Boulder herbalists aren’t doctors, and they don’t claim to be. Their mission is to listen to people and to educate them on options — on centuries-old remedies...
Straight to the point
Correction: In the June 20 edition of Boulderganic magazine, the article “Straight to the Point...
Growing the green economy
To declare that the way we do business has changed is probably the “Duh!” statement of the decade. Of course it has. Between the amount of business done on email and the fact that we now carry devices capable of sending and receiving those emails whether we’re at our...
Debunking the gas industry’s pitch
Marketing is a tough job, particularly when you’re trying to push something that most people don’t really want, say, for instance, a giant natural gas production platform stuck right in the middle of a neighborhood or next to a school or maybe even in someone’s ...
There’s a name for how you shop
Maybe you haven’t heard of LOHAS, but it’s big in Japan...
Spring 2013 Boulderganic Introduction
For green thumbs everywhere, this may be the most wonderful time of the year...
Intelligent irrigation: using less water for lawns and gardens in Boulder
Despite recent storms in the mountains, snowpack around Colorado is still below average, raising the possibility that watering restrictions will force local homeowners and gardeners to pay more attention to irrigating intelligently...
A day in the life of a Boulder County GMO farmer
Paul Schlagel’s business purchases usually consist of irrigation piping or seeds, so it’s understandable that the farmer is eager to show off his new toy: a GPS-guided John Deere tractor. Though he technically bought it used, the gleaming green piece of equipment is ...
A greener way to grow
Shopping only for local produce, or growing all of your own, sounds great until you remember one thing: avocados. And then tangerines, mangos, papayas, passion fruit — fresh-squeezed orange juice. Banana smoothies...