I have been asked by High Plains Food Co-op to be their volunteer route manager for the mountain area, creating a monthly pickup site in Bailey and Evergreen. High Plains Food Co-op is sort of like a CSA, except they offer locally produced, sustainable, natural/organic meats, eggs, dairy, produce, breads, and much more AND you get to order exactly what you want and nothing you don't!! I have been buying their products for almost a year now and the quality is unmatched. We won't buy meat from anywhere else. The bacon is to DIE for!!
From their site:
"HPFC is a grassroots network of High Plains and Rocky Mountain Front Range producers and consumers uniting interests in locally grown food and other locally made products. The HPFC strives to be a business that is environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially just. To foster a local food community and promote a culture of stewardship by cultivating farmer-consumer relationships, promoting the enjoyment of healthful food, increasing food security through diversity, and enhancing overall rural sustainability."
If you're interested, here's how it works. You pay a yearly $40 fee to be a member of the co-op. You don't have to order every month if you don't want to. Orders open on the 1st of the month, at which time you can go on their site and open a shopping basket. Place whatever you want to buy in there. There is no checkout, that shopping basket will remain there until orders close on the second Thursday of the month. You can add or remove items till then as you please, if they're in your basket they're reserved for you until you take them out. When orders close, whatever is in your basket is your order. If you have meats, the producers will update your price with the actual weights, and pickup day is the third Thursday of the month. You can pay for your order by paypal once your invoice is complete with all the weights, or bring a check when you pickup.
The Evergreen pickup site will be at Evergreen Fire Rescue Station 2 parking lot @ 1802 Bergen Pkwy from 3:30-4pm on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Bailey pickup site will be in the Crow Hill Bible Church parking lot from 5-5:30pm on the third Thursday of the month. Look for my old black 4Runner! I have no way to store perishables, so if you don't show up, food will be donated.
If you go onto their site, http://highplainsfood.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you can get all kinds of information, including checking out their current list of available products, although you can't place an order until you become a member. Orders for June are open till 6/13, so there's still time to join to order for this month!! I highly recommend this stuff, I accepted this route because I think all of us up here ought to have access to local, natural foods.
This month's pickup day will be 6/20. Feel free to post here or send me a message!!
New products are added each month and produce is available seasonally, so this month there was spinach, kale, chard, radishes, rhubarb, onions, mixed veggie boxes with early spring veggies - yum!!
If you'd like to see the product list from this month before you sign up, check out this link:
http://highplainsfood.org/shop/pdf.php?type=full" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Direct link to form to sign up:
http://highplainsfood.org/shop/members/member_form.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Info such as member agreement, FAQ's etc:
http://highplainsfood.org/getting_started.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
