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Free stuff in Boulder TODAY!
Mmmm … coffee.
Need an afternoon wake-you-up? Photo compliments of Flickr user, puuikibeach.
Mmmm … FREE coffee.
Yup, that’s right. Today, Tuesday, May 3, it’s free coffee tasting day at the Whole Foods on Pearl Street.
Swing by today between and 3 and 6 p.m. for a free sample of Allegro’s Organic Bolivia Café Takesi coffee, a light roast described as having “concord grape and chocolate notes with luscious full body.”
Delish!
For more info, check out the Allegro Coffee Facebook page.
Whole Foods, WhiteWave Foods, Gaiam among top 50 employers in Boulder
Each year, the Camera’s Alicia Wallace takes a look at the top 50 Boulder county employers. This year’s private sector leaders included three companies you’d think of as green types right away, and of course plenty that have some kind of environmental initiative or another.
Whole Foods comes in at No. 13 with 712 employees, WhiteWave Foods at No. 16 with 507 employees and Gaiam at No. 41 with 231 employees.
For reference, IBM is at the top with about 2,800 employees and public sector employers remain huge in Boulder, of course, with the University of Colorado far outsizing everybody else at nearly 7,000 employees, followed by the Boulder Valley School District and St. Vrain Valley School District at about 2,700 apiece.
The ranch-to-market tale of the organic beef you just bought from Whole Foods
Cattle graze on the Minnesela Slope at the 595,000 acre Arapaho Ranch in Wyoming. Owned by the Northern Arapaho Tribe, it is the largest certified organic cattle ranch in the country. All the organic beef sold at Whole Foods in the Rocky Mountain region comes form this ranch. Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post
Ever wonder where the organic beef you just bought came from? If you bought it at a Whole Foods store in this area, the beef started its life as a cow wandering the range of an expansive ranch in Wyoming.
Grass hugs much of the 595,000 acres of hills, valleys, and mountains that make up the Arapaho Ranch in north-central Wyoming. This sustains the thousands of cattle that live on the property, the largest organic, grass-fed cattle ranch in North America, a nearly 70-year-old enterprise on the Wind River Indian Reservation and run by the Northern Arapaho tribe.
The cattle that roam this range have it good. They spend their entire lives beneath the huge skies of these high plains, never doing time at feedlots, muddy corrals into which most cattle are squeezed for months to feed on grain and get fat. Cowboys do not strike them with electric prods to move them around, nor are the horns of males removed. When calves are weaned from their mothers, they are not forced into pens. Hormones? Unlike most cattle, the ones on Arapaho Ranch never receive injections of them. Read more
