In this episode of My Own Two Hands, Adrián catches up with long-time co-collaborator Eden Vardy, who in 2008 founded The Farm Collaborative, a local non-profit that he describes as a "collaboration for regeneration" dedicated to cultivating our local foodshed. We learn how, over the 16 years Eden has served as its Executive Director, the Farm Collaborative has built an ecosystem of cooperation to form relationships of reciprocity and abundance by merging with various entities that share the same goals: from their youth camp called Earthkeepers (started by John Denver and gifted to the Farm Collaborative by the Windstar Foundation) or their publication Edible Aspen (with which they promote local producers and farm-to-table chefs) to the 2 Forks Club (through which they provide zero-interest loans to beginning farmers) and SeedPeace, the regenerative land-race farming organization started by Casey Piscura, which now provides Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares through the Farm Collaborative (www.farmco.org). We also learn how the Farm Collaborative is now building a first-of-its-kind learning campus in Aspen complete with a year-round farmers' market stand, food storage, a commercial kitchen and a classroom space for training the farmers of tomorrow.
My Own Two Hands | Eden Vardy
