Cornucopia of Local - A Farmers' Market

All presenters will be available to meet with you during the day in the Chautauqua room. Stop by for your more in depth questions and find inspiration.


9:30am - Colorado Friendship

Colorado Friendship is committed to reducing suffering and saving lives throughout Colorado by providing emergency food, shelter and clothing to those in need.

9:45am - Boulder Independent Business Alliance; Ged Thompson

Ged Thompson a BIBA Board member, will speak about the why supporting the local independent business community has the best impact during these hard economic times. Boulder Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) is a grassroots collaborative organization of locally owned independent businesses in Boulder County promoting locally owned independent businesses in an effort to preserve Boulder's unique character and ongoing economic viability.

10:00am- Transition Boulder County; Michael Brownlee

THE FUTURE OF FOOD IS LOCAL! As global food prices soar to record levels, food supplies are rapidly diminishing due to water shortages, droughts, soil loss, competition from crops grown for bio-fuel, and humanity's appetite for meat. To be sustaining and sustainable, agriculture must quickly transition from an oil-based industrial model to a more labor-intensive, knowledge-intensive, organic, localized model. This means a radical reduction of fossil fuel inputs, accompanied by an increase in labor inputs and a reduction of transport, with production being devoted primarily to local consumption.

10:30am- Sandy Cruz; leading Permaculturist

The conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems to create the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural eco-systems. This form of agriculture seeks the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and nonmaterial needs in a sustainable way.

11:00am - Indira & Vijay Gupta; with Windsor Dairy

Windsor dairy will discuss their mission of creating positive changes in the environment, local foods community and your health. Then Indira will use Windsor's certified organic raw milk and certified organic butter from the Windsor dairy to demonstrate how to make yogurt (without any gadgets), ghee (clarified butter for cooking), and Indian cheese. She will talk about what Ayurveda says about these items for your personal wellness. Vijay Gupta will lead a discussion about the fundamental relationships between water, climate change, agriculture, and health issues.

12pm - Marco Lam - Local Integrative Medicine

Marco Chung-Shu Lam is the Clinic Director for the Mandala Integrative Medicine Clinic and the owner of Divine Farmer Herbals. He will be speaking about the importance of local medicine for a resilient economy and a resilient immunity. He pioneered the first herbal CSA in the United States and will talk about it as the basis of a new local medicine based health care model.

12:30 - Tom Theobald - beekeeping

A History of Bees and Beekeeping in Boulder County - 1863 to the Present. Tom has e been a beekeeper in Boulder County for 33 years, and is the owner of the Niwot Honey Farm, was one of the founders of the Boulder County Beekeepers' Association and was president for 30 years, was the last County Bee Inspector in Colorado.

1:00pm - Anne Zander - So Easy To Preserve and do it Safely


Harvesting fruits and vegetables at the right stage of maturity results in nutritious, high quality products. You can capture the peak flavors of local produce through various methods of preservation. This presentation provides the latest research-based information on safe high altitude preserving methods through canning, pickling, drying, and freezing your garden treasures.

Ann Zander, is a Family & Consumer Science Extension Agent for Colorado State University Extension of Boulder County

1:30pm - Wynn Martens - raising hens in town

Wynn and Ryan Marten, co-founders of Urban Hens, a local partnership dedicated to reintegrating hens into Boulder's backyard, school and community gardens. Urban Hens is funded by the Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation. Urban Hens will bring chicken coops to community settings, design an effective model for easy backyard hen tending, and provide activities for schools and community organizations that spark children's interest in aiding the environment, raising food for their families and caring for their own hens. The hens help us think about what we eat, what we throw away, where the rest of our food is coming from, and how a closed-loop system works at the most basic level. And, backyard chickens can provide a healthy, local food source and bring a not-so-new dimension to homes, schools, and communities seeking sustainability. The Martens will provide  the bare basics and answer many of the frequently asked questions around starting and keeping a coop of backyard hens - aka slow food machines; from birth to death, the best eggs, full cycle scraps to manure and back, and stopping predators.

2:00pm- Shanan Olsen - CSA's (community supported agriculture)

Why a CSA (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a solution for you and your community. A CSA is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. Shanan is part owner of Abbondanza Organic Seeds & Produce.

2:30pm - Myrto Ashe; 100 Mile Diet

This workshop on "eating close to home" is a practical exploration of the feasibility of a local diet given the realities of today. What are the challenges? What are the benefits? How does one break down the task into manageable pieces? Myrto Ashe is a family physician focusing on food for the past year. This started as a desire to live in a way that is both healthier and more sustainable, but has evolved into a concern with some of the great issues of today, including climate change, problems with energy availability, and how these relate to the economy as we are presently experiencing it. She writes at www.ecoyear.net.