Foodshed News » Home http://ccfa.coop Stories and Information from the Central Colorado Foodshed Alliance Wed, 16 May 2012 14:54:07 +0000 en hourly 1 Reel to Real May Films May 16th: Vanishing of the Bees & Sister Bee http://ccfa.coop/blog/reel-to-real-may-films-vanishing-of-the-bees-sister-bee http://ccfa.coop/blog/reel-to-real-may-films-vanishing-of-the-bees-sister-bee#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:49:23 +0000 Tamara http://ccfa.coop/?p=1594 Join us to learn more about what is happening with Bees!  First United Methodist Church, Salida 7-9 pm

 

]]> http://ccfa.coop/blog/reel-to-real-may-films-vanishing-of-the-bees-sister-bee/feed 0 Don’t Clown Around with Your Food! Apple Blossom Parade Float http://ccfa.coop/blog/dont-clown-around-with-your-food-apple-blossom-parade-float http://ccfa.coop/blog/dont-clown-around-with-your-food-apple-blossom-parade-float#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 21:51:34 +0000 Tamara http://ccfa.coop/?p=1589 Here is CCFA’s finished float for the Apple Blossom Parade. Thanks SO MUCH to all of the dedicated volunteers who put this together. This was a great way to increase awareness of Local Food in Canon City.

]]> http://ccfa.coop/blog/dont-clown-around-with-your-food-apple-blossom-parade-float/feed 0 You’ve Got to See this Float! CCFA will take part in Apple Blossom Parade in Canon City–Join in the fun, and help us win again! http://ccfa.coop/blog/ccfa-apple-blossom-parade-float-in-canon-city-join-in-the-fun-and-help-us-win-again http://ccfa.coop/blog/ccfa-apple-blossom-parade-float-in-canon-city-join-in-the-fun-and-help-us-win-again#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 21:22:06 +0000 Tamara http://ccfa.coop/?p=1567

Beki tries on a grape costume for the float

The Canon City Apple Blossom Parade is this weekend, and Central Colorado Foodshed Alliance is having a float again this year. Last year, CCFA won $200 for their entry!
Thanks to the efforts of some very creative CCFA members in Canon City, this year’s float is coming along nicely, but we need your help!
This year’s theme is “Circus” and Beki came up with a brilliant idea for our float: “Local (Fresh/good) Food is the Circus of Life”
The float will be a Big Top Tent complete with a lion (Dodger the yellow lab with a lion mane) a ring leader (Dave Ward :) are you in?)  A trapeze, and a juggling vegetable!

Here are things we need help with:

1.   We will continue work on the float at Friday morning in Canon City.  
2.   We are recruiting people to dress up as fruit and vegetables to ride on or walk beside the float. On Saturday we will be meeting no later than 12:30 at the float.
3. If you can’t walk in the parade, do you own a fruit or vegetable costume we can borrow?

An ordinary rocking horse is transformed into a Carousel Horse!

 

The next time you see this box, it will be a miniature Abbey on the CCFA float

Contact Beki at Javernick Family Farms to find out where in the line up the CCFA float will be located on Saturday before the parade begins.

]]> http://ccfa.coop/blog/ccfa-apple-blossom-parade-float-in-canon-city-join-in-the-fun-and-help-us-win-again/feed 0 Location of Four Mile Community Center for Annual Meeting April 21st http://ccfa.coop/blog/location-of-four-mile-community-center-for-annual-meeting-april-21st http://ccfa.coop/blog/location-of-four-mile-community-center-for-annual-meeting-april-21st#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:23 +0000 Tamara http://ccfa.coop/?p=1563 LOCATION OF FOUR MILE COMMUNITY CENTER for meeting today:
Just South of Highway 50 in Canon City, near intersection of E. Main and Steinmeier, next to Sonny’s Ace Hardware

]]> http://ccfa.coop/blog/location-of-four-mile-community-center-for-annual-meeting-april-21st/feed 0 Join us for the CCFA Annual Meeting! http://ccfa.coop/blog/join-us-for-the-ccfa-annual-meeting http://ccfa.coop/blog/join-us-for-the-ccfa-annual-meeting#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:00:39 +0000 Tamara http://ccfa.coop/?p=1553 Please join us for the CCFA Annual meeting on April 21st. The event will take place in Canon City to highlight our new market there, now approaching its second season. We have a day of fun filled events planned that you won’t want to miss. See the poster for details.

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