Shops & Markets

Asparagus is a labor of love for this organic farm on Colorado’s eastern plain.

Opening Day at the Union Station Farmers Market, on Saturday, May 12, saw a variety of spring produce and other locally made munchies from Colorado farms, bakeries and artisan producers.

The Boulder Farmers Market is now open every Wednesday for the next few months. Asparagus season is here, so here’s a quiche recipe that takes advantage of wonderful spring flavors.

Chef Paul Reilly of Beast + Bottle and Coperta is also on the board of the Union Station Farmers Market. Here’s what he’s looking forward to from this year’s growing season.

The weather is freezing as vendors set up in the early hours of Saturday morning for the very first Boulder Farmers’ Market of the year, but the sun warms the scene as the hours go by. Familiar stalls line 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard — the Boulder…

The farmers’ market at Union Station (part of Boulder County Farmers’ Markets) is officially over — for this year, anyway. But as one thing ends, another begins. In this case, it’s a new restaurant at the station called Ultreia, the latest venue from Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasinski’s Crafted Concepts…

Despite the devilish wind on Saturday morning, plenty of vendors still showed up to the Union Station Farmers’ Market, albeit without a awnings. With one week to go, the availability of produce has dwindled, but chef Christian Graves of Citizen Rail, a new eatery just around the corner, was on…

About a month ago, Nicolas Lebas moved to Evergreen from Florida to take a job as the executive chef of Panzano at the Hotel Monaco downtown. The day we met at the Union Station Farmers’ Market, it was cold, but the chef didn’t mind. He was too excited to be shopping…

This might be the last truly great harvest at the farmers’ market this year. After all, snow is on the ground and a freeze is predicted for tonight. Still, despite today’s bad weather, the farmers and chef Brian Wilson of Beast + Bottle were all smiles over the weekend as they…

When Franco Ruiz, the chef de cuisine at Fruition, visits the Union Station Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, he always brings his daughter Luna along with him. After all, he says, why bother with the museum or zoo when there’s so much fun to be had among the candy-colored stands of…

All of a sudden it feels like fall out there, which is why chef Bradley Yard from Avelina wanted to start working on his cool-weather menu. We met the chef at the Union Station Farmers’ Market (run by Boulder County Farmers’ Markets), which takes place every Saturday from 9 a.m…

This week we took a detour from our usual haunt and ventured to the Longmont Farmers’ Market (9595 Nelson Road), also run by Boulder County Farmers Markets, in Longmont. The chef scheduled couldn’t make the tour so I decided to take matters, er, vegetables, into my own hands and shopped…

When it comes to finding the best of the summer harvest, sometimes we must go all the way to the source, especially if we want to show a soon-to-be-three-year-old city kid where vegetables really come from. With that in mind, I accepted an invitation from chef Eric Skokan, chef/owner of…