For the last several years, one of the fastest growing and most promising sectors of the Colorado Front Range economy has been local food. We’ve witnessed an explosion in the number of Community Supported Agriculture shares in the region, a proliferation of Farmers’ Markets, farm stands popping up around the countryside, scores of popular farm-to-table dinners every summer, dozens of new farms and farmers, and considerable new additional acreage devoted to food production for local consumption.
But when the skies began darkening in September 2013—just as the summer crops were reaching the peak of the season—no one knew that this thriving new local food industry would suddenly be fighting for its life.
