Our backyard produces some awesome sunsets. We are not sure how long we will have an open field behind us, but if they ever change it, we will probably be long gone in Puerto Rico by then.
For those of you coming to our party next weekend (Sept 6th), you can enjoy it with us as we launch potatoes into the field and lake (more info in a post this weekend hopefully)….
Britton and I went on the Tour De Farms events from the Rocky Mountain Sustainablilty group on Saturday. It was pretty fun. We loaded up the bikes in the Honda Civic and met at the Farmer’s Market in Fort Collins. There we had a discussion about local food economies and the benefits of eating organic. Then we looked around the Farmer’s Market and ate some Grand Junction peaches.
At the Farmer’s Market
From there we headed off on bike as a group to a couple of urban backyard gardens and discussed the importance of this.
In an Urban Garden
Then we rode a little more and saw a couple of commercial operations including an organic nursery and greenhouse operation that is part of a larger farm out in Wellington and a Community Supported Agriculture farm that has over 125 members.
Rows of Food with a Mountain backdrop
It was pretty cool to see over 50 people in a row on bikes going from farm to farm in a 5 mile radius in Fort Collins.
Biking to and fro
The last event at Happy Heart Farm was probably the best. We talked about the importance of transportation in the equation (biking) to reduce our carbon footprint and even had a bike courier deliver lunch from a local co-op. It was definitely a pretty hippie and awesome day. The speaker even talked about moving from a “locavore” society to a “bike-a-vore” society. Which made me think, who eats their bicycle anyway? 
Even the sandwich choices were either vegetarian or vegan -that’s pretty rare. I would have liked to have seen a few animals as part of the discussion on farming -especially for the kids to play with, and maybe a little more diversity in the people who turned out for the event, but overall, it was a great way to spend a morning. And we ended up at New Belgium’s again which made Britton all the happier…
Hanging out at Happy Heart Farm under the old tree arch
When we came home, we hung out with Matt and Jamie at our house for a little while and then slept out in our backyard in a tent to complete the hippie day.
Britton by the tent
The whole day overall was yet another training for Puerto Rico. I believe there are very few organic farms or CSAs there. It would be wonderful to create a farm-stay program where people could stay at the place, work and eat. It gave us renewed vigor and strength that this is going to be one of the coolest things in our lives. We probably would do it here in Colorado except, well, we have a winter season that goes from about the middle of October until the middle of April. I am ready to live like this -well maybe not the whole tent thing – year-round.
In addition to chasing clucking chickens all around our backyard this weekend, we also went out with Matt and Jamie to celebrate our 3 year anniversary and their 10 year anniversary.
Loaded up the bikes
Rode our bikes to some breweries -New Belgium and O’dells
At New Belgium
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Went out to dinner at Bisettis YUM
Hung out Downtown and listened to some musicians
Went to a couple bars including the Drunken Monkey
And swung like Tarzan
It was a great night!
Well, three years ago today (actually on a Saturday), Britton and I got married. It is amazing how fast time flies. We have known each other for a total of 8 1/2! We still use a lot of the gifts we received from our friends and family. Thank you to those who helped to celebrate this important day in our lives.
I don’t think we are going to do anything fun tonight, and I had to work today, but we may go out with Matt and Jamie this weekend since it is their 10 year this week too. We usually like to go to Bisetti’s in Fort Collins since that was where Britton and I went for our first date. Maybe we could go out dancing at a club or bar after…
I love summer. You get to hang out with friends and family, go to BBQs, go swimming (which we have yet to do), go to concerts, camp, etc etc. We have a lot of great friends and family that we are going to miss when we go to PR, but I am sure they (you!) will either visit us, or we will visit them (you). Maybe they will even move there too! Plus, we will make lots of friends there as well.
This weekend we hung out with our friends Matt and Jamie and we went to a BBQ at Clyde’s house and hung out with Jody, Brian, (and Logan) and Jodi and Greg. It was pretty fun.
Britton and Matt
Cassie and Jamie
Cassie, Jody and Jodi
For the heck of it and to take you back a bit, here’s a little Sublime.