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FREE Organic CSA Workshop at Aspen Moon Farm
via docs.google.com
Posted December 10, 2024 3:05 pm
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You are invited to attend the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Organic CSA Workshop at Aspen Moon Farm in Longmont, CO on Friday, December 13, 2024. Be sure to register if you plan to attend. Register here.
CGC Special Offer for Specialty Flour Gift Boxes + Recipes (Order Now & Get 15% Off) 🌾⚡️
via Dry Storage website
Posted December 9, 2024 11:53 am
Once a year, our friends at Dry Storage Mill put together a very special selection of their finest flours, pre-measured and ready for your kitchens with unique recipes for each variety from the Dry Storage Head Miller.
Get your Gift Box Today!
This includes 400G bags of Colorado grown: India Jammu Flour, Yecora Rojo Flour, Winter Langin Flour, Rouge de Bordeaux Flour, Origine Spelt Flour, and Elbon Rye Flour. Recipes are included from the Head Miller for each variety. 6-pack and 3-pack holiday boxes are available for purchase here.
Purchase to ship or pick up locally at Dry Storage Bakehouse (Boulder), Rebel Bread (Denver), and Dry Land Distillers (Longmont).
As friends of the Colorado Grain Chain, we invite you to get your specialty flour gift box using the code GIFTOFGRAIN for 15% off at Dry Storage Flour Shop.
NextCycle Colorado
via coloradocircularcommunities.org
Posted November 15, 2024 11:41 am
NextCycle is designed to promote circular economy-based ventures and foster innovation in sustainable design, reuse, repair, compost, recycling or material recovery solutions for end markets in Colorado. Funding for NextCycle Colorado is provided by C3.
Applicants are selected for a six-month business accelerator program to advance their ventures.
Deadline to Apply - December 4th.
Learn more here.
Applicants are selected for a six-month business accelerator program to advance their ventures.
Deadline to Apply - December 4th.
Learn more here.
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Could This Local Grain Be the Key to Saving Agriculture in the San Luis Valley?
via 5280 Denver's Mile High Magazine
Posted November 15, 2024 1:36 pm
But how long before the water table dries up entirely? Jones, co-owner of Jones Farms Organics, is working to find a solution before the drought drives agriculture out of the valley. She teamed up with Heather Dutton, district manager with the San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District, to launch the Rye Resurgence Project (RRP), an initiative that aims to shift farmers’ focus from water-guzzling crops to a far-less-thirsty plant: rye.
Colorado Grain Chain Announces Colorado Organic Grains Microgrant Program Recipients (Morning Ag Clips)
via www.morningagclips.com
Posted November 11, 2024 1:31 pm
The Colorado Grain Chain (CGC), a nonprofit organization that grows and connects a vibrant community-centered grain economy in the state, has announced recipients for the 2024 Colorado Organic Grains Microgrant Program. CGC awarded six grants, at $5,000 each, to businesses in the middle phase of the organic grain supply chain, which falls after harvest and before retail. This round of grants is the first of a three year Microgrant program. Each of the 2024 Colorado Organic Grains Microgrant Program grants shared innovative concepts that help make organic grain usage reach a larger audience and underscore the importance of organic grains in the food ecosystem. Continue Reading Here....
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CO BizBuilder Grant RFA - NW and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center
via nwrockymountainregionalfoodbusiness.com
Posted October 25, 2024 5:00 pm
The Business Builder subaward program is focused on supporting farm and food businesses producing in, sourcing from, and focused on local and regional markets across our six state region (CO, MT, WY, ID, WA, and WY). The funding is being distributed through competitive and non-competitive awards on a rolling basis from 2024 to 2027 through three pools of funding, each designed to address distinct regional needs and increase regional impact.
Focus on Place grant programs are developed in partnership with the center's state teams (Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming) and Tahoma Peak Solutions. Focus on Place grants will include competitive and non-competitive grants. A new Request for Applications will be released for each place-specific competitive grant program.
Focus on Topic awards align with the center’s four goals- building meat supply chain capacity; creating diverse markets for climate resilient agriculture; connecting and scaling food entrepreneurs; supporting right-size investing and infrastructure. These awards will be offered competitively and non-competitively.
Regional-Scale Projects focus on benefiting individual food and farm businesses across the region, including underinvested businesses and geographic areas across at least three of the Center’s six states.
We are now accepting applications for the first Focus on Place funding pool in Colorado. The center has $200,000 available in Business Builder grants for farms and food businesses located in Colorado and expects to make between 20 and 60 awards. The Request for Applications is open through January 10, 2025. The next Request for Applications will focus on Idaho and be released in November. Additional pools of funding will be announced as they become available.
The center will not be offering individualized technical assistance support with the grant applications to assure impartiality in the review process. Inquiries and questions may be submitted via this form.
We will be hosting a series of information sessions and office hours to answer folks' questions:
· Colorado BizBuilder Small Grant General Information Session 2 – Wednesday November 6th, 6pm – 7pm REGISTER HERE
· Colorado BizBuilder Small Grants Office Hours Session 1 – Monday December 2nd, 6pm – 7pm REGISTER HERE
· Colorado BizBuilder Small Grants Office Hours Session 2 – Thursday, December 5th, 8am – 9am REGISTER HERE
· Colorado Small Business Builder Final Session – Monday, January 6th, 5pm – 6pm REGISTER HERE
To learn more about the Colorado or other upcoming grant pools, visit our website and sign up for our newsletter to get the latest information as we have it.
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New Terrain Brewing Company Claims Silver Medal at the Great American Beer Festival®
via newterrainbrewing.com
Posted October 25, 2024 1:07 pm
Golden, CO • October 11, 2017— New Terrain Brewing Company received a silver medal at the 2017 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The top three winners in the competition’s 98 beer-style categories were announced October 7 at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
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Wheatstock Grain & Music Festival
via YouTube
Posted October 16, 2024 10:16 am
A taste of 2024's Wheatstock Grain & Music Festival co-hosted by the Colorado Grain Chain, Spirit Hound Distillers, Dry Land Distillers, and Moxie Bread Co.
Colorado Grain Farmers and Consumers Collaborate to Build Community Within the Industry
via yellowscene.com
Posted August 7, 2024 2:53 pm
WildEdge Brewing Collective in Cortez, Colorado has regarded supporting the agricultural community as one of its founding principles for more than eight years, said co-owner and head brewer Tucker Robinson. They became members of CGC around a year and a half ago and used the microgrant to collaborate with Root Shoot Malting in Loveland, Colorado.
This Week in Beer: Wheat Underground Project Beers Available
via Westword
Posted July 18, 2024 2:51 pm
Wheat Underground Project Beers Available
The Story: Dry Storage partnered with the Colorado Grain Chain, Troubadour Maltings, Rocky Mountain Hay Farms and multiple breweries on the project.
The Scoop: Dry Storage's regenerative wheat is best known for being used across Colorado kitchens, including all five Michelin-starred restaurants in the state. It is now available for use in select beers through the Wheat Underground Project. The Rouge de Bordeaux grain was malted by Troubadour Maltings. It's a hard red winter wheat, native to France.
Look for beers out now from Stodgy Brewing, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Ratio Beerworks, Odell Brewing, Monolith Brewing and New Terrain Brewing. Cerebral Brewing and New Image Brewing will release beers using the wheat in 2025 and 2026.
The Story: Dry Storage partnered with the Colorado Grain Chain, Troubadour Maltings, Rocky Mountain Hay Farms and multiple breweries on the project.
The Scoop: Dry Storage's regenerative wheat is best known for being used across Colorado kitchens, including all five Michelin-starred restaurants in the state. It is now available for use in select beers through the Wheat Underground Project. The Rouge de Bordeaux grain was malted by Troubadour Maltings. It's a hard red winter wheat, native to France.
Look for beers out now from Stodgy Brewing, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Ratio Beerworks, Odell Brewing, Monolith Brewing and New Terrain Brewing. Cerebral Brewing and New Image Brewing will release beers using the wheat in 2025 and 2026.