EAT LOCAL! Week Events and Registration
Boulder County Farmers' Markets (Boulder & Longmont)
Come to the Farmers' Market for a harvest-gathering celebration of those who support local organic food, offering culinary pleasure with awareness and fun! Here you can see demos and enjoy samples from some of Boulder Country's finest farmers, chefs, culinary artists, and food educators.
Chautauqua Auditorium
Meet Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms, the world's most-recognized beyond organic and stricly local, clean food farmer, prolific author and inspiring speaker, the ethical farmer in the critically-acclaimed Academy Award nominated documentary, Food Inc. Co-produced by Chautauqua.
Unity of Boulder
This evening will not be a formal debate, but a series of thoughtful “TED Talk” style presentations along with dialogue between presenters and the audience. The goal is to raise public discourse about GMOs to a new level.
Millennium Harvest House
Economist and author Michael Shuman will reveal the first results of a major economic study investigating the potential impacts of 25% food localization in Boulder County and the state of Colorado. Learn how investment in our local foodshed can substantially increase both demand for and supply of local food, create thousands of new jobs in Colorado, generate hundreds of new businesses, and produce millions in revenue to support the local economy. The economic impact in Boulder county could be significant. Meet local food innovators whose examples inspire a strategic plan for achieving food localization.
Millennium Harvest House
This event is designed to spark conversations and connections amongst local eaters, food and farming entrepreneurs, investors, intermediaries, and food activists. Meet the founder of Slow Money, Woody Tasch, and learn about this revolutionary approach to shifting local dollars into the local food and farming enterprises that deserve our patronage.
Lyons and Surrounding Area
Boulder County (various locations)
Take a self-guided tour of backyard chicken coops, urban farms, and community gardens—and get to know the people behind them. Meet and learn from local beekeepers, goatkeepers, and cultivators of delightful culinary gardens, along with those who are exploring newer forms of food production such as hydroponics and aquaponics.
Boulder
Boulder County (various locations)
Take a self-guided tour of backyard chicken coops, urban farms, and community gardens—and get to know the people behind them. Meet and learn from local beekeepers, goatkeepers, and cultivators of delightful culinary gardens, along with those who are exploring newer forms of food production such as hydroponics and aquaponics.
Lone Hawk Farms
First Annual Slow Food Boulder County Bicycle Tour de Farms. 15-mile loop through gorgeous farm country north of Boulder. Visit Lone Hawk Farm, Aspen Moon Farm, Sol 7 Sombra and Stonebridge Farm. Pick up veggies and head back for a gourmet picnic.
Ollin Farms
Join us for the 1st Annual Longmont Bicycle Tour de Farms. Explore local agricultural projects through participating in a leisurely 25-mile bike ride. Visit cutting edge farms, hear presentations from farmers, gain useful tools and knowledge for your own garden, find out ways you can support area efforts to strengthen our local food system and eat delicious local food with delicious local people. Come enjoy the future of food!
Hear from and interact with some of the people who are at the front lines of the revitalization of local food and agriculture. These local heroes will share their views, answer questions, and engage in lively discussion of some of the issues and challenges.
Boulder REI Store
One of the important reasons for food localization is the broad range of health benefits available from a diet of local and organic food
Agriculture-Supported Community in Boulder County
Alfalfa’s Market Community Room
These days we hear about many people considering getting into farming as a viable career choice. This panel turns the tables and explores a little-discussed role for local agriculture: nurturing community.
Millennium Harvest House
This is your opportunity to ask all the hard questions of the candidates for two county commissioner posts (Will Toor and Ben Pearlman are term-limited) — an exciting exercise in local democracy! One of the hottest and most contentious issues will GMOs and cropland policy.
Alfalfa’s Market Community Room
Getting fresh, healthy local food into our schools turns out to be a daunting challenge that will require a concerted community effort.
Boulder REI Store
If food localization can boost the local economy, then it seems necessary to build a local food brand along the way. How can this be done?
The Lyons Farmette
Joel Salatin is in the area to deliver the keynote address for EAT LOCAL! Week, but has agreed to meet with local farmers and others involved in the food system, and to discuss the challenges, joys, and opportunities of the life of a dedicated “alternative” farmer. This is a wonderful opportunity to talk directly with this celebrated farmer, prolific author, and inspiring speaker who has drawn much attention to the local food movement through his work.
Millennium Harvest House
This invitation-only “insider’s briefing” will begin with economist and food system activist Michael Shuman revealing the long-awaited results of the first phase of the Food Localization Study on the potential economic impacts of increased food localization in Colorado. A key purpose of this study is to provide economic perspective and data that will help justify significantly increased investments in local food and farming enterprises, especially in infrastructure redevelopment.
Millennium Harvest House
This invitation-only event is a high-level briefing for the investment community—not a “pitch slam,” but an opportunity to learn about trends and entrepreneurial activities that are indicative of how local capital is already beginning to flow into the local food system.