So yesterday I spent about 3 hours touring around Munson Farms in Boulder.  We are going to be buying a lot of produce from them throughout the summer and Bob Munson was nice enough to drive me around all the fields, show me where they were planting what, etc.  It was a lot of fun plus I got the added benefit of seeing the beginnings of their spring crop start to poke through the winter-hardened soil.  Those little green shoots in the pic above will eventually turn into super tasty, locally grown lettuce.  How cool is that?  There is about a two month window when we will be able to get lettuces from Munson and during that time, we will have greens in our salads at the Farmers Market that were cut THAT DAY.  If you ordered a salad at 11am, the lettuce in it could be less than 3 hours from harvesting.  This is a new kind of ‘fast food’.  Our food is going as quickly as possible from the farm to your plate!  I only wish Colorado’s growing season was longer so we could do stuff like this all year around!

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