tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15972083770248257882024-03-18T21:38:47.645-07:00Local MotionLocal Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-89439192466836818722013-02-24T11:37:00.000-08:002013-02-24T11:37:03.497-08:00Our History<div class="yiv118821075ms__id19149 yiv118821075ms__id1990" id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_17_1361142254750_8523" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
<span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_17_1361142254750_8673">My Grandfather started farming in Northern Colorado, just outside of Eaton, in 1937. <span id="yiv118821075misspell-0"><span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_1_1361142254750_3794">Among</span></span> other crops, he grew potatoes, sugar beets and corn. My father continued in Grandpa's footsteps further expanding the family <span id="yiv118821075misspell-1"><span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_1_1361142254750_3752">operation</span></span>. As a child I set up a small stand along the road and sold our homegrown sweet corn to the community, eventually <span id="yiv118821075misspell-2"><span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_1_1361142254750_3710">enlisting</span></span> the help of my three younger siblings. As we grew up the stand evolved to selling at farmer's <span id="yiv118821075misspell-3"><span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_1_1361142254750_3665">markets</span></span> and the local grocery store.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_17_1361142254750_8649">Anthony and I met while attending <span class="yiv118821075mark" id="yiv118821075misspell-5">CSU</span> and quickly discovered we shared a mutual passion for nature, especially horticulture and gardening. After many years of dreaming, reading and planning, and with my father's guidance, we began farming full time in 2009. Along with my siblings, we started <span class="yiv118821075mark" id="yiv118821075misspell-6">Leffler</span> Family Farms (<span class="yiv118821075mark" id="yiv118821075misspell-7">LFF</span>). In 2010, Anthony and I created Local Motion as a division of <span class="yiv118821075mark" id="yiv118821075misspell-8">LFF</span>. Local Motion serves the farm's community supported agriculture program (<span class="yiv118821075mark" id="yiv118821075misspell-9">CSA</span>) and also provides produce to local wholesalers including <span id="yiv118821075misspell-9"><span id="yiv118821075yui_3_7_2_1_1361142254750_3617">restaurants</span></span>, grocers and the Farm to School program.</span></div>
Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-23380108929595971412013-02-19T07:53:00.000-08:002013-02-19T07:53:50.105-08:00CSA Fair<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We will be attending the CSA fair at the Opera Galleria in Old Town </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Ft. Collins on March 2nd from 10-2. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Here is some more information from <a href="http://www.belocalnc.org/for-community/csa-fair/">http://www.belocalnc.org/for-community/csa-fair/</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Community Supporting Agriculture (CSA) Fair</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 2, 2013 - Opera Galleria - 10 am – 2 pm</span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For everyone in the greater Fort Collins Community…</span></strong></h5>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <strong>CSA Fair</strong> is an opportunity to explore different CSAs, to meet the producers, and to learn about how different CSAs operate. Be Local expects the Fair to be attended by approximately 20 CSAs who are offering CSA shares to the community for 2013.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a wide variety of products available through CSA shares, and you can find a program that is just right for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“CSA” stands for Community Supporting Agriculture. The basic CSA model — and there are now many variations — involves buying a share of a farm’s production. The fee is generally paid at the beginning of the season, and the farms then delivers a box of produce (which may include fruit, eggs and other products, depending on what the customer selects) is delivered weekly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a wide variety of products available through CSA shares, and you can find a program that is just right for you. At the CSA Fair, you can learn about different CSAs and find one that meets your needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fair is for all CSAs, whether you participate in the Winter Farmers Markets or not…</span></h5>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This event is an opportunity to showcase your unique CSA program to the community, to reach out to new CSA members, and to promote and celebrate the beauty of the Community Supporting Agriculture philosophy. The fair will consist of Northern Colorado farms and businesses that operate under the CSA model.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bring your market supplies (table, tablecloths, signage, etc.) complete with photos, slideshows, or other informational material about your CSA program and offerings. This is a great opportunity to “reach outside the choir” and get new people involved and interested in your farm or ranch and in the CSA movement in general.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be Local Northern Colorado will be marketing the CSA Fair throughout Northern Colorado much as we do the Winter Markets – flyers, posters, social media, newsletters, etc. But we need your help, too! Please post to your networks all the promotional information we send you once you have signed up for the fair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further information, </span><a href="mailto:Michael@BeLocalNC.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contact Michael Baute by email</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-65609379843092192012013-02-08T09:39:00.001-08:002013-02-08T09:39:38.593-08:00The Beet<div class="quoteText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.<br /><br />Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.<br /><br />The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...<br /><br />The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.<br /><br />The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.” </span>― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/197.Tom_Robbins"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tom Robbins</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1105831">Jitterbug Perfume</a> </i></span></div>
Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-28362798391603429212013-02-07T08:19:00.000-08:002013-02-08T09:42:29.713-08:00Asian Style Ceviche<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">This is Colorado Proud's February recipe. Fish isn't typically the first item that comes to mind when thinking of local food, but Colorado is home to 50+ fish farms. Who knew?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2 lb. Fresh Colorado Striped Bass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1 Small Red Onion, julienned fine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1/2 Cup Broccoli Slaw, chopped fine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1/4 Cup Edamame, shelled and steamed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1/2 Cup Snap Peas, julienned fine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1/4 Cup Lime Juice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1/4 Cup Rice Wine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2 Small Jalapeños, diced fine with seeds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">shaved green onion if desired. Great served in wonton cups or with wonton chips.</span></span></span>
Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-59518068848447142212013-02-04T08:23:00.000-08:002013-02-04T08:23:55.302-08:00Valentine's Day Beet Salad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a cute and easy idea for a fun salad! I love it :)</span>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-60667867781546179432013-01-31T13:58:00.001-08:002013-01-31T13:58:42.523-08:00Online CSA Sign UpWe now offer the convenience of online sign up for Local Motion CSA memberships. If you're interested, just go to our website at <a href="http://www.lefflerfarms.com/">www.lefflerfarms.com</a> and look under the "Local Motion" tab. Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-48929124105489507762013-01-25T08:38:00.000-08:002013-01-25T15:34:32.119-08:00Roasted Rainbow Baby Beets We made a tasty dish with our baby rainbow beets a couple nights ago. Here's the recipe:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Roasted Baby Rainbow Beets</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">baby rainbow beets</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Wash beets and place in roasting dish with salt and olive oil. Cook covered in oven at 350 for 1 - 1.5 hours or until beets are tender. Once cooled, trim the ends, peel skins off and slice into thin rings. Combine melted butter and peach preserves and mix with beets to coat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">We used Peach Habenero preserves (given to us by CSA member, Paula, last Fall) and the combination was absolutely delicious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although the cellared winter beets are not as fresh as in summertime there is something very satisfying about them. If you haven't yet had a chance to try them, I hope you will soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We will have baby rainbow beets at both Ft. Collins Old Town Be Local Market and Denver Urban Homesteading Market tomorrow. </span>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-84662092537502563822013-01-17T14:57:00.002-08:002013-01-17T15:02:02.927-08:00<a href="http://www.glassgemcorn.com/">Glass Gem Corn</a><br />
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This corn is so pretty! And what an interesting story behind it. We have seed on the way and will plant this year. Can't wait to see what we end up with!<br />
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<br />Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-28040026828388282182013-01-13T10:35:00.001-08:002013-01-13T10:35:23.625-08:00Super Beets<span xmlns=''><p><strong>Beets</strong><br /> <br/>After a study showed that beets can improve performance and reduce the amount of oxygen needed to complete a cardio session, the sports and fitness community has been raving about the root veggie and its juice. Beets contain nitrates, which are used in the production of nitric oxide, a compound that makes blood vessels dilate, allowing more blood and oxygen to flow to your working muscles. Enjoy them raw, cooked, or juiced.<br /></p><p>Here's a link to the whole article… <br /></p><p>http://shine.yahoo.com/author-blog-posts/6-superfoods-youre-not-eating-175900472.html</p></span>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-91693427987614465102013-01-06T09:01:00.001-08:002013-01-06T09:01:25.319-08:00Indigo Rose: The Tomato That Fights Free Radicals<a href="http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/09/indigo_rose_tomatoes_fight_free_radicals.html">Indigo Rose: The Tomato That Fights Free Radicals</a><br />
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We grew this tomato last year. It's a cherry variety and a hybrid - the only hybrid tomato we grew in 2012 actually... The article says the taste is "good not great", but I have to disagree. I thought they were delicious with a complex peppery flavor and nice firm texture. My snacking tomato of choice while working the farm stand. We will try and grow them again this year, and also plan to have seedlings available this Spring. Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-3768440976777818332013-01-03T16:37:00.002-08:002013-01-03T16:37:50.893-08:00Pateros Brewery to be Ft. Collins’ new CSA pick-up location<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pateros Creek Brewing Co. is going to be a great pick-up location! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out their website at </span><a href="http://pateroscreekbrewing.com/pcbc/"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;">http://pateroscreekbrewing.com/pcbc/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t wait to see you there!</span></div>
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Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-34420369605489269342013-01-02T13:38:00.001-08:002013-01-03T16:40:30.534-08:00Lisa King from Farm Kings Answers Fan Questions<a href="http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2012/12/28/lisa-king-from-farm-kings-answers-fan-questions/">Lisa King from Farm Kings Answers Fan Questions</a><br />
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A show about vegetable farming!Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-18656276116572709462012-12-27T10:49:00.001-08:002012-12-27T10:49:39.937-08:00CSA 10% discount <span xmlns=''><p>Just 5 days left to take advantage of the 10% sign-up discount. Discount is good through January 1 2013.</p></span>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-21298359202815405672012-12-26T16:39:00.001-08:002013-01-03T16:42:25.380-08:00Purple CarrotsLots of interesting information on purple carrots out there. H<span style="background-color: white;">ere's</span> just one of many articles I came across... <a href="http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/color-purple">http://www.<span style="background-color: white;">organicgardening</span>.com/learn-and-grow/color-purple</a>Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597208377024825788.post-60307833638812672862012-12-26T16:36:00.002-08:002012-12-26T16:36:47.962-08:00we are offering a 10% discount on all 2013 Local Motion <span class="yiv1128949933mark" id="yiv1128949933misspell-4">CSA</span> memberships paid by the end of this month.<br />
<a href="http://www.lefflerfarms.com/">www.lefflerfarms.com</a> for more information.Local Motionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049858358342422795noreply@blogger.com0