Due to potential pathogens and contamination in the floodwater, many farmers with flooded property are still uncertain if their fall harvest can safely be consumed. Farmers are waiting for word from a government agency to help make that decision.

The Downtown Farmer’s Market may have come to an end for the summer, but a new downtown restaurant is giving people the chance to eat local produce year-round.

It’s the height of the harvests for most summer crops, including tomatoes, corn and peppers, farmers said. But the rain kept people home from the Boulder County Farmers Market on Wednesday, and Thursday’s flooding was making it hard for people to get to farm stands. The Boulder County Farmers Market also has canceled Saturday’s markets in Boulder and Longmont.

The Pastures of Plenty CSA in Longmont, Colorado is an excellent example of how the conventional CSA model is still alive and well.  In addition to selling hundreds of shares to CSA members annually, Lyle Davis and Sylvia Tawse offer frequent events at the farm to promote a healthy CSA community.

Loveland family of six plans to share lessons on self-sufficiency with Haitian mothers. Sarah Sailer and her family of six turned their front, back and side yards — including what was once a driveway — into an urban farm that cycles out different produce year round. ”We try to grow as much of our food as possible,” Sarah said.

The Second Kitchen, a member-owned cooperative, opened a storefront on the Hill with more than 200 local and organic bulk goods on Thursday. Second Kitchen co-founders Sara Brody and Beth Burzynski started the co-op in May 2011, when both were University of Colorado students.

Part bicycle caravan, part horticultural voyeurism, participants in Saturday’s seventh annual Tour de Farms braved swarms of insects and busy weekend traffic, including oblivious drivers and jaywalking deer, to study the gardens, farms and other havens of vegetation throughout Durango.

OK, full disclosure: I’m not tossing back the hard stuff before I step into my car and head to work. You see, Allen created an Irish Whisky Marmalade that she sells at the Colorado Farm and Art Market and at her store, Sweet Izzie’s Kitchen. I’d never been a fan of orange marmalade until I tasted her recipe. The addition of whisky (which you can taste) balances the bitter twang of orange peel, and it’s not overly sweet. No wonder it’s one of Allen’s best-sellers, even though it’s one of the more expensive jellies in her array of flavors, at $9.50 for a jar.