Be Local is the best investment I’ve made for my business.  Their staff and volunteers are top notch forward thinkers and consistently implement innovative ideas to better serve their customers and the local community.  No bones about it, I give great credit and many thanks to Be Local for helping make my business a local success.


Sue Carroll, Owner, Bones Du Jour - Treats so good, you’ll wish you were a dog!

Radio Series

Eat Local – Grow Local: Taking Root in Northern Colorado
Special Series on KRFC’s “Imagine Action”

Explores the local food system, introduce producers, scientists, community activists and other who work with farms, ranchers and local food.  Helps you get to know your farmer and the other good folks in your local living food system and learn how your fork can be a tool to a thriving, resilient food shed.

Aired  March 30 -  August 24, 2010 on  KRFC 88.9FM
Hosted by Be Local Northern Colorado volunteers: Melanie Sloan, Cele Coleman and Ruth Inglis-Widrick

ARCHIVED PROGRAMS – LISTEN NOW!

3.3.10: Why a Local Food System?

Gailmarie Kimmel (Co-Director, Be Local NC); Linda Hoffmann (Planning Director,Larimer County); Garry Auld (Food Science & Nutrition, CSU);Dawn Thilmany McFadden (Ag Economics, CSU)

4.13.10: Yes, In My Backyard – YIMBY!

Home Grown Food (Fort Collins grassroots gardening non-profit)

4.27.10: Beyond Your Backyard

Rod Adams (Co-founder of Sunspot Urban Farm- a Fort Collins Neighborhood Supported Agriculture farm); Josh Palmer (CSA Director, Grant Family Farms, largest organic farm in Larimer County); Denise Fisher (Co-founder of Timnath Community Garden)

5.11.10 To Every Season Turn, Turns the Farmer

Steve Ela (4th generation farmer, Ela Family Farms); Claire Boyles (Co-owner/farmer of Boyles Family Farms); Dennis Stenson (Co-owner/farmer of Happy Heart Farm, Colorado’s first CSA – Community Supporting Agriculture)

5.25.10: Going Against the Grain – Grassfed Meat

Susan Jessup and Krista Holsclaw (Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch); Cindy Ridenour (Rancher-owner of Meadow Maid Foods, LLC.); Sara Puharich (Sunrise Ranch)

6.8.10: I’ll Have the Local Special

Amy Lasley (Owner-Operator of Rocky Mountain Salsa); Danielle Gilbert Iglehart (Co-founder of Gilberto’s Gourmet Goodness); Tom Stoner (owner and chef of Spoons restaurant)

6.22.10: The Green Grocer

Dawn Thilmany McFadden (Be Local’s “Winter Market”); Laurel Kubin (Larimer County Extension Farmers’ Market); Bryan Beavers (Beavers Market) and Amy Alcorn (Food Co-op)

6.29.10: I’d Love To, But Can I Afford It?

Amy Pezzani( Director, Food Bank of Larimer County); Bailey Stenson (Co-owner/farmer of Happy Heart Farm; founder of Feed the Families); Mary Miller (Coordinator of the Garden of Eatin’, Gardens on Spring Creek)

7.13.10:  The Joy of Cooking . . . And Eating

Scott Hapner (Owner of Chef Happy’s Gourmet); Linda Hoffman (Come Back To The Table)

7.27.10: Land, Land Everywhere . . .Or is There?

Sue Oberle (Oberle Botanical); Charles Gindler (Larimer Open Space); Mark Sears (Natural Areas Manager, City of Fort Collins)

8.10.10:  Farm-to-Community

Art Baker (Larimer County Community Corrections); Dr. Lyn Kathlene (Center for Systems Integration); Jeremy West (Director of Nutrition Services for Weld County District 6)

8.24.10:  So, What Do I Do Now?

Ruth Inglis-Widrick (Larimer County Cooperative Extension Master Food Safety Advisor); Margaret Neves (Co-owner of Café Richesse); Claudia Eberspacher (Manager, Be Local NC Coupon Book)