Deep Roots Presents Summer Cooking Series!

DEEP ROOTS

Presents:

Summer Cooking Series
with Linda Halteman Lewis

• Classes held at
Thurston Kitchen & Bath
1625 Mid Valley Drive
(between Postnet & Soda Creek Pizza)
• PLEASE Pre-Register! Class sizes are limited.
• contact info: lsgamber@yahoo.com or 819-8695

Main Dish Salads:
August 6, Thursday 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Learn to cook healthy, high protein, vegetarian salad main dishes. They’re cool, tasty, and convenient. We’ll explore the nutritional qualities of beans and veggies, and learn some yummy new salad dressings to jazz up your homegrown salads!
Sign up by August 5: $30 Deep Roots members/ $35 nonmembers
Day of price: $32 Deep Roots members/ $37 nonmembers

Pesto!
August 12, Wednesday 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Classic basil pesto as well as cilantro pesto recipes and demonstrations will be taught plus some creative new uses for your home made pesto. Freezing techniques as well.
Sign up by August 11: $20 Deep Roots members/ $25 nonmembers
Day of price: $22 Deep Roots members/ $27 nonmembers

Naturally sweetened jam:
August 13, Thursday 6:00pm – 7:00pm
How to make delicious and very fresh tasting freezer jams using natural sweeteners. The health benefits of natural sweeteners over processed white sugar and artificial sweeteners

will be explored.
Sign up by August 12: $20 Deep Roots members/ $25 nonmembers
Day of price: $22 Deep Roots members/ $27 nonmembers

Home Made Pickles:
August 20, Thursday 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Learn to make and can your own Dill pickles from scratch with no “weird” additives or preservatives. It’s fun, rewarding, and not nearly as intimidating as you might think!
Sign up by August 19: $30 Deep Roots members/ $35 nonmembers
Day of price: $32 Deep Roots members/ $37 nonmembers

Local Food Projects in our area!!

After the film "Fresh" was shown at Library Hall on 7/22, a handful of locals got up to speak about what they are doing to make local food available to our community. They are currently looking for volunteers/participants with their projects. Please read below to learn more about steps we are making in our community towards attaining local, fresh food ...

Tina Suriano and her family are living at 8,500 ft. in Rabbit Ears Village on the East side of Rabbit Ears Pass. They are building a greenhouse and plan to do a winter CSA which will provide fresh vegetables for 10 families. You can contact Tina to learn more about her project at steamboatglass@hotmail.com

Moonshines Homegrown Produce
Fresh Goats Milk, vegetables & eggs

We produce our own milk, vegetables, eggs, beef, lamb & on occasion, pork. We believe in natural & pesticide-free food.Moonshines Homegrown Produce has been in development for retail for the last four years.
I started selling shares of my Oberhausli dairy goats. This gave people a place to get fresh, raw milk. Many use it for kefir, yogurt, cheese and they just drink it.The divas get wonderful 2nd cutting alfalfa that my dad & family put up right on the ranch. They each get a portion of high protein grain during milking time. They love to be milked & are very happy to give us the beautiful milk that my family & many others enjoy on a daily basis.
My mission along with my family is to help locals find the purest kinds of foods within a short distance of their home. Please look for what your local farmers & ranchers have to offer - they have been working hard for Americans for many generations. They will take care of you when you don't have the time.
What I have & when I have it:
Plenty of:
Raw Goats Milk: March-Nov.
Beef: July-Oct.
Lamb: Sept.-Oct.

Call for availability:
Greens: April-Sept/Oct.
Eggs: Year round

Other vegetables:
Through summer & fall
Homegrown wool yarn/roving: Summer till we are out

Lorrae Moon
970-824-9568
moonshines@wildblue.net

Grant Family Farms CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture)
Shares available to be delivered to Steamboat Springs Residents!Call soon to secure your share.
Purchase Colorado grown, farm fresh produce from Grant Family Farms at the Steamboat Springs Farmers Market every Saturday morning!

CONTACT:Michael Moss
Grant Family Farms Mountain Coordinator
(970) 846-6233
michael@springsips.com
Andy GrantFarmer
Grant Family Farms
(970) 568-7654
andy@grantfarms.com

Community Cultivation is a horticulture program that addresses the vocational, social and life skills of individuals with disabilities and/or at risk populations. Community Cultivation is a work simulated environment that enables members to acquire the skills they need to be successful in the employment sector.
Participants learn to grow local, organic vegetables, herbs and cut flowers in five plots at the Yampa River Botanic Park . Once produce has been harvested, they sell their produce at the local Farmer's Markets during the month of August.
We are in our second year, and we have more than double our population! Twenty to twenty- five students from all over of Routt County are participating in Community Cultivation.
We are always looking for volunteers to garden with us, or offer any unique skills you may have to offer.
For more information on our programs or if you are interested in getting involved, please contact us at communitycultivation@yahoo.com.

Sincerely, Dana Colgan & Beth Davison

Dana Colgan
Colorado Educational Consulting
(970) 819 - 1216
PO BOX 773233
Steamboat Springs, Co

Deep Roots Presents "In Cahoots"!

In Cahoots!
Community Supporting Agriculture Supporting Community

Deep Roots and the Community Agriculture Alliance will be hosting special guest presenter Cindy Dvergsten at 7 pm on Thursday, July 30 at the Community Center. Cindy, with her husband Mike, has operated Arriola Sunshine Farms outside of Dolores, Colorado, since 1987. Lately, their focus has been on creating wholesale markets and managing via a whole-farm approach, a technique that Cindy helps other farms and ranches implement.

Cindy's presentation will be focusing on the fact that while agriculture is necessary to sustain civilization, it takes a community to support agriculture. As Scott Ford noted in, “Let's Use a Different Economic Map,” local agriculture contributes to our economy in very valuable ways, yet only about one-tenth of one percent of our labor source income comes from agriculture.

Out and about, the word on the street is that there is a high demand for locally-produced food that is grown in a sustainable manner. Small CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) are popping up around the valley, and there are even two other Western Slope CSAs that are running a thriving business bringing healthy produce into the valley for our consumption. In the spirit of keeping out hard-earned dollars close to home, how can we support local agriculture—and in return, allow it to support us?

In that vein, Cindy will be discussing ways for us in the Yampa Valley to create a community that will help sustain family farms and ranches, and the reciprocity that occurs in terms of social, economic, and environmental capitol. She has recently given a similar, well-received presentation in Mancos, Colorado, focusing on boosting the local economy and establishing its self-sufficiency by strengthening the area's agriculture.

As dry as all this may sound, Cindy is a dynamic and well-versed speaker. This is a presentation for all of us who look forward to the Farmer's Market, who appreciate roadside stands selling peaches, for those of us who recognize the blandness and petroleum dependency of eating asparagus from Argentina. It is a call to action for small family farms—those of us who raise a dozen cattle or a few pigs, who are overflowing with eggs from the family coop while others around us would pay good money for such golden-yolked treasures.

Let's put all the pieces together. I hope to see you there.

Summer Herb Walks!

Earth Centered Studies Presents
Summer Herb Walks
With Herbalist Jessica Kinnaman Striker

Come learn the basics of holistic healing where nature is the classroom.
Learn to identify & use many edible and medicinal plants

that grow in the Yampa Valley.
These walks will introduce

wild crafting, botanical pharmacology, plant lore, therapeutics & more.

Herb walks are $15 & last about 2 hours on various trails in Routt County
Space is limited & registration is required
Call 819-6782 to sign up

Fri. July 17th 3pm

Thur. July 23rd 5pm

Wed. July 29th 4pm

Tues. August 4th 9am

Mon. August 10th 2pm
Wed. August 26th 4pm