Adventures in Eating from a Local Colorado Food System

Ben grew up on an organic farm in Maine in the 1970s – he’s cooked and eaten organic food since childhood. Ben lives in Longmont with his wife Mary. The two created a quarter acre urban food forest in Old Town Longmont. In 2022, they helped to found Waves of Grain, a regenerative Farm-to-Family food coop in Front Range Colorado. In 2023, Ben left a long career in the tech sector to start growing food again in Boulder County.

Eat Like Ben

Mess o’ Greens, With Liripipe

Mess o’ Greens, With Liripipe

The round-bottomed wife has been irritable for days. She got a project in her teeth like a puppy with a juicy marrow bone, only begrudgingly stopping to eat and sleep...

Mess o’ Greens, With Liripipe

The round-bottomed wife has been irritable for days. She got a project in her teeth like a puppy with a juicy marrow bone, only begrudgingly stopping to eat and sleep...

Pickles and Brine with Eye of Newt

Pickles and Brine with Eye of Newt

My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today, she had 4 pots going...

Pickles and Brine with Eye of Newt

My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today, she had 4 pots going...

Smoking the Trout

Smoking the Trout

My neighbor's dad knows many good streams here along the continental divide. He catches trout. When their freezer is about overflowing, we get a call. With her birthday coming up,...

Smoking the Trout

My neighbor's dad knows many good streams here along the continental divide. He catches trout. When their freezer is about overflowing, we get a call. With her birthday coming up,...

Eat Like Ben

Eat Like Ben

  On Saturday while I headed to Denver to run a pop-up farm stand at Nurture Wellcare Marketplace, my wife Mary was rendering beef fat into tallow for skin creams....

Eat Like Ben

  On Saturday while I headed to Denver to run a pop-up farm stand at Nurture Wellcare Marketplace, my wife Mary was rendering beef fat into tallow for skin creams....