Foundation quietly sources local, fresh food for all By Ellen Metrick, Staff Writer, Telluride Newspapers Feb. 15, 2023 The Fresh Food Hub, a 501c3 organization also known as the Fresh Foundation, closed its locally-supplied grocery in downtown Norwood in the fall of 2021, but the organization is alive and well, focusing on distributing food to …
The Fresh Foundation is excited to announce the next phase in its evolution! We are in the process of choosing an operator to oversee the retail portion of the independent Fresh Food Hub store, currently located on Grand Avenue in Norwood, CO. The Fresh Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3), will shift its focus to wholesale distribution …
Part-time, weekend job at the Fresh Food Hub in Norwood, CO. Tasks include running the register, packing orders for delivery/pickup, directing volunteer staff and general shop upkeep. Food or retail experience is a plus. Hours include 8:30am-1:30pm both Saturday and Sunday Compensation is DOE with potential raise after review. Additional hours could be added. See …
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We have one important change for anyone picking up in Telluride on Tuesday\’s starting this Tuesday, March 9th! Due to the Town of Telluride permitting regulations for Vending businesses selling pre-paid products, the location of our delivery pick up has changed to L Lot (old galloping goose bus pullout/semi-circle off Mahoney across from Cimarron Lodge west entrance). …
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The Fresh Food Hub is seeking a contractor who has a passion for local healthy food and is driven to promote food availability and access for the entire community. Self-starters w/ high integrity and a collaborative mindset a must. Multitasker with excellent communication skills and previous nonprofit experience a plus. Bi-lingual Spanish top priority. Please …
Growing up working sheep and rolling haybales on a ranch on Wright’s Mesa, Terri Snyder Lamers wasn’t keenly interested continuing the work as an adult. Of her four siblings, she says, she was probably the most “domestic” minded. But once ranching is in your blood, it can be hard to deny. And it’s in Lamers’ …
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Running a restaurant is hard anywhere. To do it in a sparsely populated and remote Colorado community, all while raising much of the meat and eggs featured in the dishes and sourcing ingredients from local producers? Then it becomes superhuman. Julie and James Thorneycroft can’t help themselves. For most of the 21 years the couple …
Check out the latest and greatest Fresh Food Pub. Find local farmers market information, Food Bank & WIC contacts, recipes with local, seasonal ingredients written by the one and only Katie Klingsporn, local volunteer opportunities and a feature article on local producer Anne Lefevre. Download the new pub here or pick it up at the …
Fresh Food Pub: Your resource guide for local food, Summer 2019 is released! Read More »
It wasn’t Anne Lefevre’s intention to become an organic vegetable farmer. But, just as some people are naturally proficient at math or business, she found her knack in growing food. “I just had a green thumb,” Lefevre says. Lefevre grew up on Colorado’s Front Range, and farming took her to New Mexico, where she developed …
Growing vegetables on a high-altitude mesa in southwestern Colorado … during winter? It may seem daunting, foolhardy even, but for Tomten Farm employee Kathryn Helterline, it’s all in a season’s work. Helterline, 29, manages Tomten’s greenhouses, a job that entails keeping things growing at 9,000 feet through the snowstorms, short days and bitter temperatures of …
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