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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Planning The Garden For The Kitchen

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How does your gardening change when you’re planning what you plant for the eventual end use of it...in the kitchen? Today we have Chef Chris Starkus from Urban Farmer Denver, a farm to table restaurant in Denver and the owner of Lost Creek Micro Farm. In today’s show, we talk about how he plans his farm to make incredible, farm to table meals.

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Chef Chris Starkus is the executive chef of Urban Farmer in Denver, a farm to table restaurant. He’s also the owner of Lost Creek Micro Farm.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We've got another epic

0:06.0

awesome guest. Today we have Chef Chris from Urban Farmer

0:09.2

Restaurant which is I guess you could say a true Farm to Table restaurant and we'll get into what that means in Denver and he's also the owner of Lost Creek micro farm so a really great combo of a farmer chef and I thought who better to have on to help us really understand what a high level

0:25.6

professional is doing from a farm and cooking perspective so maybe we can

0:29.7

bring some of that knowledge down into our home gardens and our home kitchens.

0:34.0

So first of all, Chef Chris, thanks for coming and second, I think it would be great to just

0:37.8

give a quick overview of the restaurant and the farm and kind of what you're doing there.

0:42.1

Absolutely. Well, thanks for having me Kevin and appreciate being here.

0:45.7

The restaurant is Urban Farmer, Denver in downtown. We were by Union Station at the

0:51.3

Oxford Hotel on 16th and Wazi.

0:54.2

And what we're doing is farm to table.

0:56.0

Now, I know that's a term that people use a lot.

0:59.0

But we're really looking from the feet of our cattle,

1:01.9

how they're treated, and how they're put on the menu, for cattle, how they're treated,

1:02.7

and how they're put on the menu, for instance,

1:04.5

in all of our stakes we have.

1:07.0

It's from grass-fed, grain-fed, dry-age, things like that.

1:10.7

Whole animal butchery, so we have whole cows that come in probably quarterly and then month

1:14.6

a month when we get busier in the summertime.

1:17.1

Whole pigs and things like that that we use throughout our programs making our own sausages and

1:21.6

bacon as well. But then even using you know the beehives up top on the

1:26.2

rooftop where I'm a beekeeper and so using that to cut comb in the restaurant.

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