Category Archives: Market Photos

Vegetables Old and New at the Boulder Farmers’ Market

Despite winds strong enough to knock me off balance, I strolled enthusiastically along the rows of vendors at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market this past weekend.  It was Opening Day. Farmers’, out of touch since the Fall, greeted each other with questions like “how’d your bees do over the winter?” And they graciously answered my questions as I [...]

Monday Dose of Market: Baby Food, Burritos, and Biodynamic Wine

Biodynamic is a new word for me.  Posted next to the new display of Jack Rabbit Hill wine at Denver Urban Homesteading, was the definition of biodyamic agriculture, pulled from wikipedia:
Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming with homeopathic composts that treats farms as unified and individual organisms,[1] emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship [...]

Monday Dose of Market: Native Greens Greenhouse

An invitation to Ski Country to stay with relatives visiting from out of state + a slow internet connection = a week off for The Weekly Veggie last week.  The snow was soft, the sun was out, and my nephew, who I taught to snowboard on Monday, was better than me by Friday.
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Cristin Kearns Couzens is a ‘non-practicing’ dentist who doesn't know much about vegetables and isn't ashamed to admit it. Wanting to eat healthier, yet overwhelmed by produce she'd never heard of at farmers' markets, Cristin began weekly forays into the often intimidating world of veggies. She hopes this blog will inspire fellow vegetable ignorami to give veggies a second look. She lives in Denver, CO and you can contact her at ckcouzens@gmail.com

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