Community Collaborations
A growing number of people and organizations in our community are focused on developing the necessary elements of an emerging local food economy:
We are proud to be collaborating with, and to be inspired by all of you!
- The Roaring Fork Food Policy Council (RFFPC) is coordinating resource maps of our food shed and working to develop a local food hub.
- (co)studio, a local chapter of Houses 4 Higher Education (H4HE) is working to develop design/build curriculum at our high schools, inspiring students to design and build tool sheds and cold frames for our school gardens and local gardeners.
- Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is developing curricula around sustainable agriculture throughout our region.
- At the Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS), Linda Halloran has served for many years as gardener in chief, raising up to 40% of the food served in their cafeteria, and teaching their students the values and skills that make gardening such a compelling, lifelong pursuit. Linda inspires us.
- The Slow Food chapter of the Roaring Fork Valley continues to be a great help developing local community gardens, as well as the much loved Carbondale Community Oven, bringing our diverse community together around a large, wood-fired bread oven at the Third Street Center.
- Aspen T.R.E.E*, a local non-profit near Aspen that is also dedicated to agricultural education, is helping us to expand our gardening classes and teacher workshops at their farm site as well as our own, and we are seeking other ways of collaborating with these young and enthusiastic gardeners.*(Together Regenerating the Environment through Education).
We are proud to be collaborating with, and to be inspired by all of you!
Dr. Pevec with some of our new gardening families at the RFHS Garden Center.