Carefully chosen, these are the visionaries and early adopters who are working to form the backbone of community support for the preliminary stages of this campaign. We encourage you to support them.

If your company or organization wishes to help us make the vision of a resilient and sustainable local foodshed a reality by becoming a sponsor or community partner, please contact Transition Colorado.

Find out more about the EAT LOCAL! campaign and sponsorship.

Campaign Sponsors

Bella Energy

Bella Energy is the new name of Colorado’s oldest and most experienced solar company. Our president, Jim Welch, has been a leader in the renewable energy industry for almost 30 years. In 1982, Jim started the company as Remote Power International, one of Colorado’s very first companies to sell and install solar electric systems. Later Jim renamed the company Sun Electric Systems. The name Bella Energy highlights what the company has become become today and – most importantly – what we are growing toward. Today, Bella Energy offers complete energy solutions including solar electric analysis, energy efficiency analysis solar domestic hot water and solar heating. Our solutions will evolve as the solar industry grows and we continue to lead.

Indra's Net

Indra's Net, a full service Internet and World Wide Web provider, has been serving business and residential customers since 1994. We offer DSL across Colorado, nationwide dialup, professional Web design and development, web hosting, co-location, and a suite of other Internet solutions, with friendly, helpful, customer service, seven days a week.

Boulder County Farmers' Markets

Welcome to the largest and friendliest Farmers' Markets in Colorado, located in the heart of downtown Boulder, next to Central Park on 13th Street between Canyon Blvd. and Arapahoe Ave and in downtown Longmont, in the North lot of the Boulder County Fairgrounds, between Hover Rd. and Boston Ave. We grow what we sell!! The Boulder County Farmers' Markets take pride in bringing you locally grown vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, gourmet cheeses and wines sold by the farmers that produce them. While you're purchasing your fresh vegetables and fruits (many of them organically grown) enjoy a tasty pastry from local bakeries or enjoy a meal created by local chefs. Our Saturday morning markets are open 8am - 2pm from April 3 - November 6 in Boulder and May 1 - October 30 in Longmont. Boulder also has a Wednesday market from 4pm to 8pm, May 5 to Oct 6. Free customer parking is available in Boulder Wednesdays after 3pm in the City lots accessed from 14th Street.

ReDirect Guide

The Denver / Boulder / Fort Collins Area's Healthy and Sustainable Business Directory and Resource Guide to finding businesses, services, and information that cater to your healthy and responsible lifestyle! The ReDirect Guide was created to help you locate merchants and organizations that offer environmentally, socially, and health conscious goods and services in Colorado's Northern Front Range. ReDirect your everyday purchases to the businesses found here, and you'll know that you're helping to build sustainable and healthy communities, locally and worldwide.

Elephant Journal

yoga | organics | sustainability | active citizenship | enlightened education | conscious consumerism | buddhadharma | ecofashion | the contemplative arts elephantjournaldotcom is your guide to what we like to call 'the mindful life': yoga, organics, sustainability, genuine spirituality, conscious consumerism, fair fashion, the contemplative arts—anything that helps us to live a good life that also happens to be good for others, and our planet.

Community Partners

Boulder County Government

Everbody Eats!

Everbody Eats! has been preparing to launch a community food system planning project for several years. Our extensive and inclusive research about county farming and food issues has allowed us to develop a vision for our future food system. It contains the following elements:

• Community centric and inclusive
• Places highest priority on feeding our community
• Creates access to local food for all community members
• Utilizes the best organic and permaculture practices
• Improves and sustains our health
• Supports farmers
• Allows our environment and biodiversity to thrive

Contact us for more information on how you can get involved in creating a local, sustainable, healthy and accessible food system in Boulder County.

Earthworks Expo 2010

EarthWorks Expo is a celebration of solutions that enable our evolution to a truly sustainable society.

KUNC 91.5 FM

KUNC is a community-licensed public radio station, operated by Community Radio for Northern Colorado, Inc., a 501 (c) 3, Colorado non-profit organization. CRNC came into existence in the winter of 2001 when a group of community volunteers raised $2 million in 20 days to purchase KUNC's license from the University of Northern Colorado and preserve the station's independent voice.

Skillshare Network

SkillShare Network of Boulder County (SkillShare) is a TimeBank. We share our time, skills, and resources -- just as our grandparents once did -- within a cooperative system in which members can earn and bank TimeDollars for every hour of service that they give to someone else. SkillShare is part of an international TimeBanking movement that is creating new ways of sharing resources based on cooperation and mutual aid. These TimeBanks recognize the importance of every individual, create systems so that everyone benefits, and everyone's skills are equally valued. SkillShare is a member of TimeBanks USA. This new kind of currency (TimeDollars) is based on time not cash and creates positive benefits for individuals, families, and organizations by giving them access to needed services and providing opportunities for giving back. This "win-win" is the foundation for positive community building. Imagine a society built on service to others that is reciprocated over and over again!

Slow Food Boulder

Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment. Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system. We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food. We seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat. Everyone with taste buds is welcome to join. This is not another gourmet food club. It is a place for people with a passion for safeguarding local farms, food traditions, and artisan foods to gather and build culture and community. We invite anyone who wants to get involved, be educated, and rediscover pleasure in everyday life by slowing down and learning to appreciate the convivial traditions of the table.

KGNU 88.5 FM Community Radio

KGNU is an independent, noncommercial community radio station licensed in Boulder and Denver and dedicated to serving its listeners. We seek to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community, and to provide a channel for individuals, groups, issues and music that have been overlooked, suppressed or under-represented by other media. The station seeks to expand the listening audience through the excellence of its programming without compromising the principles stated here.

Boulder Independent Business Alliance

The Boulder Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) is a grassroots collaborative organization of locally owned independent businesses in Boulder County. Together, we promote locally owned independent businesses in an effort to preserve Boulder's unique character and ongoing economic viability. We strive to support these goals through advocacy and education within the community as well as with member benefits such as brand recognition and cooperative marketing. BIBA highlights not only the local independence of our members and the importance of shopping locally in Boulder County but also the economic impact that such a choice makes.