Our Food & Agriculture project aims to facilitate a comprehensive approach to sustainable food system development, helping to support groups throughout the area with project facilitation, implementation, and collaboration.
Announcing Local First's 2nd Annual Eat Local Celebration:September 13th - October 14th
Join Local First and the Durango community as we celebrate the abundance of local food, highlight local family farms and the farmer’s market, along with local restaurants, grocers and organizations who support them.
To celebrate we have planned a month of inspirational, informative events and activities -- and, most importantly, enjoying fresh, delicious, local food and drink!
Starting the week of September 15, 2012, Linda's Local Food Cafe will assist in the selling of CSC ("community supported cooking") shares, with food pick ups starting the following week. You will receive a range of food products prepared with the produce from the Hill Family Farm and processed with the help of community volunteers.
The best part is that the profits from the CSC will go toward the fund to buy back the Hill Family Farm! For more information, contact Linda Illsley at the restaurant (970-259-6729) or by cell (970-903-0797).
Business skills course offered to agricultural producers and Ag-related businesses this January!
Experienced and new farmers, ranchers, and agriculture related businesses are invited to attend the Leading Edge "Tilling the Soil of Opportunity" course offered by the SW Colorado Small Business Development Center.
Do you know about our Local Food Policy Council, here in Southwest Colorado?
The La Plata Food Policy Council is a local group in La Plata County that advocates for local, secure, and sustainable food systems for our community.
The Local Food Policy Council started up in February 2011 after the Fort Lewis College Environmental Center and The Growing Partners of SW Colorado hosted the Homegrown Retreat with keynote speaker Mark Winne, a community food activist from Sante Fe, New Mexico.
The retreat and Mark's talk on local food policy served as a great springboard for Durango and the greater SW Colorado community to come together and start a food policy group. There has been great momentum so far, with over 40 people attending the first meeting at Cocina Linda's and interested community members continually joining in.
Imagine a cupboard packed with neatly labeled jars of beans, pickles, jam and chutney; a freezer full of locally raised beef, lamb, turkey and raspberries; a root cellar stuffed with potatoes, onions and pumpkins. This is the image of abundance, of food sustainability, of the future of the local food movement as it expands to envelop the winter months.
The Durango local food movement has grown exponentially in the last several years, a self-fulfilling cycle of more fervent demand and an increasingly diverse supply...
Our Food & Agriculture project aims to facilitate a comprehensive approach to sustainable food system development, helping to support groups throughout the area with project facilitation, implementation, and collaboration.
Experienced and new farmers, ranchers, and agriculture related businesses are invited to attend the Leading Edge "Tilling the Soil of Opportunity" course offered by the SW Colorado Small Business Development Center. 
Imagine a cupboard packed with neatly labeled jars of beans, pickles, jam and chutney; a freezer full of locally raised beef, lamb, turkey and raspberries; a root cellar stuffed with potatoes, onions and pumpkins. This is the image of abundance, of food sustainability, of the future of the local food movement as it expands to envelop the winter months.
