Grower’s Organic is excited to announce our participation as a sponsor of the Mile High Business Alliance’s Local Food Summit, Denver’s largest gathering of local food producers, manufacturers, growers, retailers, and restaurateurs. The Local Food Summit will be a great place to network with Colorado’s top local food producers, as well as sample local food and drink from many of our great local brewers, bakers, coffee roasters and other local food purveyors.

Key issues affecting our local food system will also be addressed. Topics ranging from the starting and growing farms in the urban agricultural space to understanding food system infrastructure and how we can localize our current model will be discussed.

The Local Food Summit will be held from 10 AM to 6 PM, Monday, February 11th at 144 West Colfax Avenue in Denver.

For more information and the event page, click here.

Grower’s Organic Holiday Hangover Cure

1 cucumber
4 celery stalks
2 apples
6-8 leaves kale (Australian tuscan cabbage)
1/2 lemon
1 handful parsley

Wash all produce beforehand and, if you feel like it, peel the lemon. Put it all through your juicer, the juiciest items like cucumber and apples going last. Pour over ice and enjoy!

In keeping with our commitment to community involvement, we’ve decided to express our thanks the only way we know how: selling produce. Which is why which is why we’re ecstatic to announce that we will be opening our doors to the community. Join us at a farmer’s market-style gathering where you’ll be able to buy all of your organic Thanksgiving staples at Grower’s Organic employee pricing! Featuring everything from apples to yams, this is your chance to get everything you need to throw an all-out  Thanksgiving feast for the ones you love, chock full of organic, non-GMO veggies.

The market runs from 2-6 on Tuesday, November 20 at Grower’s Headquarters at 6400 Broadway in Denver, all while our friends from Waffleganger will be slinging the tastiest waffles this side of Belgium. Everyone is welcome, so bring the family and tell your friends! See you there!

Photo & Recipe from Simply Recipes

Don’t let the sunchoke intimidate you! Known also as Jerusalem Artichokes, these root vegetables pack a hefty nutritional punch so don’t let their odd appearance scare you off. Instead, try a warm and easy soup!

JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE (SUNCHOKE) SOUP

• 2 tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 lbs sunchokes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 qt vegetable or chicken stock
• salt and pepper to taste

- Heat the butter in a soup pot over medium-high heat and cook the onions and celery until soft, about 5 minutes. Do not brown them. Add the garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Sprinkle with salt.

- Add the sunchokes and the stock to the pot and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer, covered, until the sunchokes begin to break down, 45 minutes to an hour.

- Using an immersion blender or upright blender, purée the soup. If using an upright blender, fill the blender bowl up only to a third of capacity at a time, if the soup is hot, and hold down the lid while blending. Alternately, you can push the soup through the finest grate on a food mill, or push it through a sturdy sieve. Add salt to taste.

Sprinkle with freshly grated black pepper to serve.

Congratulations to the three Colorado chefs who earned a spot on season 10 of Bravo’s Top Chef! Denver is represented with Tyler Wiard of Elway’s and Euclid Hall’s Jorel Pierce. Eliza Gavin of 221 South Oak shows up for the mountains.

Tune in tonight at 8pm MNT to watch the competition begin!

California! We need you to set a wise example!

According to this alarming article, the current polls for Proposition 37 are locked in a dead heat! Voting YES would require foods purchased at grocery stores with genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) be labeled as such. Don’t you want to know what lurks in your food?!

Read more about the legislation HERE and get out there, California compatriots. VOTE YES!

Photo from YumUniverse

Trick AND treat!

We’re labeling this plant-based recipe from vegan powerhouse YumUniverse a treat because turning bell peppers into nutrient-stuffed jack-o-lanterns is one superb trick!

Click HERE to follow step-by-step instructions to making your own Halloween cuteness. And call us for supplies! 303-299-9500

The Empire apples from Big B’s Delicious Orchards are so striking!

With their delicate palm-size and skin so deeply red-black, they’d make the perfect Evil Queen apple for your Halloween costume!