Mountain Towns & Local Food Systems, Pt. 1: Setting the Stage

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Wilderness, Bike, Gear, Snowboard, Outdoor, Sports, Ski, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week Jonathan is talking with our very own Kara Williard, who, when she’s not testing skis or doing a million other things for us at BLISTER, is raising chickens and growing food in the Gunnison Valley. We discuss what it means to build and support local food systems in mountain towns; the best practices for growing food in these cold climates; chicken tractors and therapy chickens; and the many ways that you can get involved with local food in your community.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Kara’s Background (2:06)
Tim’s Question (9:04)
What’s a Local Food System? (10:39)
Who are the players? (11:47)
Food Insecurity & Mountain Towns (18:31)
Growing participation in CSA’s (21:52)
Farmers’ Markets (27:03)
What else individuals can do (28:40)
Greenhouses (31:43)
Eating Regionally & Food Literacy (35:47)
Other methods & technologies(37:23)
Local Food & Environmental Health (40:55)
Kara’s farm: Sunny Sage Farm (45:55)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:07.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:17.0	Today, our topic is Mountain Towns and local food systems, and this is a topic that Cody Townsend and I talked about a bit on our last reviewing the news episode, and I mentioned that we were going to have our own Kara Williard on the show because Kara has been working in local food systems, studying these things,
0:41.3	and I will let her at the start of this conversation tell you a lot more about her
0:46.6	specific background and why she is a great person to have weighing in on these topics.
0:53.4	And today's conversation is just part one of what will be a
0:58.1	multiple episode series where we're going to be looking at this question of mountain towns and
1:04.6	local food and local food systems from a variety of different perspectives. So these are incredibly important topics for those of us who live in mountain towns,
1:16.3	and it's an equally important topic for anyone who visits mountain towns.
1:21.6	So I'm actually going to leave it at that for now,
1:24.1	and then we're just going to go ahead and get into this conversation where early on, Kara is going to start helping us just understand and appreciate all the different
1:33.5	players and the different angles from which to tackle this topic of mountain towns and food
1:41.4	and growing local food and seasonality and, well, there's a whole bunch of moving
1:48.0	parts to this and we hope to give you a better handle on these things through this new series.
1:54.1	And so let's go ahead and get to my conversation with our very own Kara Williard.
1:59.9	Here we go.
2:14.9	All right, well, I am here in Blister headquarters, in Elevation Hotel, in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado with the one and only Kara Williard.
2:19.0	Kara, hi.
2:20.6	Hey, Jonathan.
2:21.8	This is cool.
2:22.9	We are kicking off a series on Mountain Towns and Food that you and I have been talking about for kind of a while now.
2:33.7	And we have it kind of plotted out. We're both
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