8820 W 116th Circle Unit B
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Our Vision
Building
Sustainable Food Systems
Our Mission
We cultivate
relationships between food producers and food buyers by
delivering freshness and the story behind it.
Our Focus
We focus on providing high-quality food, straight from
the SOURCE, so our customers can focus on what matters most - their
food, their menus, and their bottom line.
Our Work
SOURCE Local Foods is your connection to the freshest,
locally grown and locally processed food in Colorado. We distribute
all-local, natural, and organic produce, meats, cheeses, dairy, and
more.
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On The Truck
Colorado Sun
Tofu is a new, non-GMO tofu produced in Northglenn,
CO. Now available in food service pack sizes, this tofu product
is produced in both medium firm or extra firm consistencies.
Consider adding tofu to your breakfast scrambles, marinated and
grilled on the BBQ or pureed into delicious vegan desserts.
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May and June are the busiest months for bee swarms in
Colorado. If you are lucky enough to witness one of nature's
most fascinating migrations, a swarm, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO KILL
THEM! Please do not spray them with insecticide or water! These
bees are "survivor bees" and are crucial to our
environmental health. What you can do is call the swarm hotline
(970-213-3099).
Beekeepers throughout the state are ready to be dispatched to collect
the bees and transfer them to a new home. This is a FREE service and
response is generally, within an hour or two. Contact the Swarm Hotline at
970-213-3099
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Truck To Table
Tomato Tapenade
on Flatbread
2 c dried tomato in oil (reserving some oil)
1/2 c olives
Place all ingredients in a Vita Mix blender (or food
processor) and adjust the consistency with the reserved oil from the
tomatoes. Puree until smooth. Spread sauce over Etalia artisan
gluten free pizza dough. Top with mozzarella and your favorite
local, fresh veggies such as Hazel Dell
mushrooms and Rocky Mountain Fresh
tomatoes.
Recipe compliments of
Chef Julian H. Smith Jr.
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Upcoming Events
A Taste of
Art
You won't want to miss Boulder's kick-off to a summer of
food! National food photography exhibit, food-themed films, an
Artful Food opening featuring local chefs, cooking classes for
adults and kids, a kids gardening workshop, food presentations,
an Artful Chef competition, even special music and dance
performances to help celebrate Boulder's food culture. Brought
to us by The Dairy Center for
the Arts.
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FOOD & WINE
classic in aspen
In it's 32nd year, this is your opportunity to check out demos from
premiere chefs across the world in our own backyard. The FOOD & WINE
classic in aspen weekend is full of tastings, panel discussions
and culinary inspiration.
SOURCE Local Foods is thrilled to be hosting the Farmers Market Tent
again this year at the Chefs Club by FOOD
& WINE at the St. Regis! We will feature 12-15 local
farmers, ranchers and artisan food producers at this event where
chefs, food writers and others from the industry will sample products
and hear the great stories of several SOURCE vendors.
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Auraria Higher Education Center
Slow Meat is a Slow Food USA symposium designed to
produce a menu of action for meat in America, from field to fork.
Events include sausage making and butchery tour, ranch tours,
workshops, bison fabrication and an emphasis on how to enjoy
"better meat, less." Register
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Traveling in
the mountains, in the city for a night out, visiting a friend in a
new part of town? Be sure to download SOURCE the FOOD APP
to find the restaurants, cafes and grocers carrying amazing local
foods for your culinary enjoyment! Available for free on your Android
or iPhone, use this APP to connect with delicious, nurturing local
foods.
This APP is
also a great messaging channel for all of the jedi chefs, buyers and
F&B managers out there who are sourcing local food for their
clientele. The APP will send more friends and customers your
way for the awesome local food you are sourcing!
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Join Our Mailing List!
For
information and updates on seasonal products, local events, our
Colorado community and as an opportunity to cross promote your
establishment or sustainable products, be sure to follow SOURCE Local
Foods on Facebook
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Letter
from CEO & Chief Fungi
Hello Friends and SOURCErers!
It is with enthusiasm and excitement that I am writing
this letter to you all. Enthusiasm and excitement for the
emerging summer produce season, and for many exciting developments that
the SOURCE team has been working on. Please read below on this
newsletter to find more in depth information about great local produce
that is now coming off the fields! Ample water in much of the
state should allow for a bountiful produce season over the next several
months, according to many of the farmers that we're working with.
Please also be sure to check out our Produce Availability
Calendar and our interactive Local Sources Map at
www.SOURCELocalFoods.com
for more information!
We are also very excited to announce a very special
partnership with Veritable Vegetable (VV) - one of the best regarded
and respected organic produce distributors in the country. As
many of our customers have asked us to help balance produce supply with
the seasonality and limited supply of many items here in Colorado, we
went on the search for a partner that would allow us to offer more
value to our customers while maintaining our mission and brand promise
to support sustainable food systems and provide source-identified
products to our customers. With over forty years distributing
certified organic produce, Veritable Vegetable,
a Certified B Corporation,
has the following mission statement: "VV works hard to actively
improve the sustainable food system by supporting organic farmers,
increasing access to fresh produce, strengthening communities, and
cultivating a fair and dynamic workplace." Although we
remain deeply committed to providing our customers with quality, local
produce, we know that this partnership with VV is another step in
building sustainable food systems with our customers and stakeholders.
And, talking about building sustainable food systems -
we are thrilled to have found Colorado Mills - a
producer of Colorado-grown, non-GMO sunflower oil. This
high-oleic vegetable oil is expeller pressed in Lamar, CO without any
solvents, and thus has no hexane or other petroleum-derived chemical
residues. Available in both 750 mL bottles for retail and 35
pound totes for fryers, Colorado Mills Sunflower Oil provides
restaurants and retailers alike a great opportunity to use a very
healthy, Colorado-grown and processed oil, and is a great story-telling
opportunity as well! Moreover, with SOURCE Local Foods' sister
company, RECYCOIL, you can
benefit from additional savings, if you are also using RECYCOIL for
your used fryer oil recycling service (RECYCOIL processes used cooking
oil and supplies Blue Sun Biodiesel, Renewable Energy Group,
and High Plains Bioenergy
with the oil for biodiesel production).
We are very excited about these developments - the
burgeoning local produce offerings, the Veritable Vegetable
partnership, and the Colorado Mills Sunflower Oil - all expanding the
opportunities for and ways in which we're building sustainable food
systems together.
Thank you for your ongoing support and interest, and, as
always:
May the SOURCE Be with YOU!
Aaron
CEO &
Chief Fungi
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Like the weather forecast, produce vacillates greatly at this time of
year in Colorado. Spring snow, hail and high winds are often a
great force before the summer heat. If you don't like the
weather, just wait a few minutes...and this holds true for produce, you
need to wait only a few days or weeks for more sprouting and ripening
of these beautiful treasures from our Earth.
The month of May proved bountiful with hefty stalks of asparagus,
hearty spinach, and spicy Easter egg radishes
 
Basil, mint
and microgreens remain in steady supply from our aquaponics farmers at KM*2 Farms and Freshtable Gardens.
Spring mix lettuce, baby chard and baby collards are all now available
from Ollin Farms. Rocky Mountain Fresh
greenhouses continue to produce: pickling, English and mini English
cucumbers, along with amazing beefsteak and heirloom tomatoes that will
whet your appetite with a taste of summer.
 
Just entering
June we're seeing several field crops emerge, including field lettuce,
shallot and garlic scapes, green onions, radishes and snap peas.
Kale, cilantro, parsley and summer squash are not far behind.
Enjoy tracking
the "produce report" as it will be ever changing. Be
sure to watch for our weekly product list updates which will reflect
these live produce updates as they become available.
You can check
out a fantastic overview of month-by-month projected Colorado produce
on our Produce Availability
Calendar, "produced" by "El Capitán
Produce," Dave Schambach.
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Team
Updates
A big welcome
to our newest team members!
Natural
Power Source, Natural Grocers Sales Representative
Tania started in
the food industry as a server in Long Beach CA. After nine years in
food service, she shifted to the beverage industry, where she first
worked for Vita Coco. This June marks Tania's one year anniversary in
Colorado. Over the past year she has represented four additional
beverage companies: Jin-Ja , Motto, Kona Red, and Chameleon Cold Brew
through several grocery channels including King Soopers, Whole foods,
and Vitamin Cottage.
What excites Tania about SOURCE Local Foods is being able
to make a difference with people. She strives to see small
businesses become bigger and loves to be a part of that process.
Through this process, she greatly values the sense of community that is
built. One of Tania's specialties in her kitchen is enchiladas,
and she prepares them three way - red, white, and green!
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Featured
Restaurants & Markets
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Our
New Suppliers
We keep growing and so does our
list of partners!
Colorado Sun Tofu  
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At SOURCE, we
are dedicated to always providing EXPERT, FRIENDLY and PROFESSIONAL
Customer Service.
We strive to
be your trusted partner and we want your feedback. What are we
doing well? What can we do better? We're here and we want
to hear from you. Call us anytime.
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