The farmers’ market at Union Station (part of Boulder County Farmers’ Markets) is officially over — for this year, anyway. But as one thing ends, another begins. In this case, it’s a new restaurant at the station called Ultreia, the latest venue from Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasinski’s Crafted Concepts…
Despite the devilish wind on Saturday morning, plenty of vendors still showed up to the Union Station Farmers’ Market, albeit without a awnings. With one week to go, the availability of produce has dwindled, but chef Christian Graves of Citizen Rail, a new eatery just around the corner, was on…
About a month ago, Nicolas Lebas moved to Evergreen from Florida to take a job as the executive chef of Panzano at the Hotel Monaco downtown. The day we met at the Union Station Farmers’ Market, it was cold, but the chef didn’t mind. He was too excited to be shopping…
This might be the last truly great harvest at the farmers’ market this year. After all, snow is on the ground and a freeze is predicted for tonight. Still, despite today’s bad weather, the farmers and chef Brian Wilson of Beast + Bottle were all smiles over the weekend as they…
When Franco Ruiz, the chef de cuisine at Fruition, visits the Union Station Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, he always brings his daughter Luna along with him. After all, he says, why bother with the museum or zoo when there’s so much fun to be had among the candy-colored stands of…
All of a sudden it feels like fall out there, which is why chef Bradley Yard from Avelina wanted to start working on his cool-weather menu. We met the chef at the Union Station Farmers’ Market (run by Boulder County Farmers’ Markets), which takes place every Saturday from 9 a.m…
This week we took a detour from our usual haunt and ventured to the Longmont Farmers’ Market (9595 Nelson Road), also run by Boulder County Farmers Markets, in Longmont. The chef scheduled couldn’t make the tour so I decided to take matters, er, vegetables, into my own hands and shopped…
When it comes to finding the best of the summer harvest, sometimes we must go all the way to the source, especially if we want to show a soon-to-be-three-year-old city kid where vegetables really come from. With that in mind, I accepted an invitation from chef Eric Skokan, chef/owner of…
At the Boulder Farmers’ Market Saturday, Mary Curcio is sitting in front of a table containing boxes of her delicious Tungsten Toffee. She’s not usually at the market on Saturdays, but this Saturday is different. The Boulder Farmers’ Market has expanded its reach, pushing one block north into One Boulder…
Urban farmer and entrepreneur Beverly Grant grew up in northeast Park Hill in the 1970s. She saw Denver’s eastside go from being a thriving, middle-class black neighborhood to a food desert — a community without a grocery store. And more recently, she’s watched as longtime residents of Five Points, one…
When I go to the Boulder Farmers’ Market — as I did Saturday — a kind of madness possesses me. I purchase a handful of market bucks with my credit card (a useful feature; these bucks can be exchanged for anything at any vendor’s stall, and you’ll get your change…
The Boulder Farmers’ Market sees the first Colorado cherries on Saturday. The strawberries are gone for now, though we’ll eventually get a second flush (and I discover some later that day at the new market in Louisville just down the road); we’re unlikely to have any Colorado apricots this year;…
There’s a large bus with peeling white paint parked at one end of 13th Street for the Boulder Farmers’ Market Saturday; it’s part of Boulder Valley School District’s School Food Project. The school lunch program has been being revamped since chef Ann Cooper was brought on board to shake things…
I picked up a small bunch of dill from Far Out Gardens at Saturday’s Boulder Farmers’ Market. Dill is such an ordinary, unassuming herb. You see basil, cilantro and rosemary — with their connotations of full-flavored summery warmth — all over the place these days, but we associate dill with…
Tornadoes are threatening Denver as I drive into Boulder, but things are calm, even sunny, at the Wednesday edition of the Boulder Farmers’ Market. To be truthful, the market has been a little less than scintillating over the past week or two. I have bought dutifully; I have feasted on…
Over the past decade, Larimer Square has become the go-to dining destination for locals and visitors alike. And now it will also be the perfect spot to pick up ingredients for cooking your own warm-weather meal, with the addition of Le Jardin Secret to its summer lineup. At this French-inspired,…
Over the past decade, Larimer Square has become the go-to dining destination for locals and visitors alike. And now it will also be the perfect spot to pick up ingredients for cooking your own warm-weather meal, with the addition of Le Jardin Secret to its summer lineup. At this French-inspired,…
I can’t stop buying asparagus. It’s there in abundance at the Boulder Farmers’ Market when I visit Saturday. The season is so short, and you really can’t get that sweet, crisp, grassy kick at any other time of year: Asparagus doesn’t freeze well, and the imported-from-somewhere-else bundles you get in…
Saturday’s Boulder Farmers’ Market boasts loads of bedding plants, including tomatoes and basil for the hopeful and optimistic. Best not to plant these out too soon, though, with colder weather expected to linger. Sue and Mark Parsons have brought their vibrant tomato plants. Rocky Mountain Fresh, a farm outside Lyons,…
When the Boulder County Farmers’ Market — just named Best Farmers’ Market in the Best of Denver 2014 — opens for the season tomorrow, customers will find that many things remain the same: the jubilation with which vendors and visitors greet each other on the first day, celebrating the coming…
“There are a bazillion farmers’ markets out there, but I don’t know of any that are doing a chef dinner at the end,” says Leigh Sullivan, whose restaurant consulting company, LSE, has partnered with HobNob Events and the Downtown Denver Partnership to create chef-driven dinners as part of downtown Denver’s…
