CLS was created to promote sustainable farms and ranches in Colorado primarily through publication of the print and web versions of the Rocky Mountain Growers Directory. What was Colorado Local Sustainability and Landshare Colorado?Ĭolorado Local Sustainability (CLS) was an organization co-founded in 2007 by Tracy Sweely and Jim Sincock. Tracy has a Masters degree in Anthropology, specifically Archaeology, focusing on the social relations of ancient Mayan agrarian households. In 2012 Tracy founded to assist gardeners and beginner farmers in establishing sustainable urban and peri-urban farming operations. As a result of working on HeartEye Village farm Tracy created the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator, as well as other planning tools and templates, to streamline production planning. Moving forward with the agricultural component of the Silo neighborhood being built by Cornerstone Development in Lafayette CO, she helped co-create HeartEye Village CSA micro-farm in 2009 as a pilot study farm and has been the Farm Manager until the close of the study in 2014. Simultaneously, Tracy was working for HearEye Land Trust, a company engaged in promoting a progressive, community-oriented, sustainable residential development with an on-site agriculture component. Over the next couple of years it became clear that Urban Farming, the production of food in the same location where it will be consumed, was a promising market driven response to this situation. While engaging Colorado’s farmers, Tracy observed that the rising costs of distributing produce seriously undermined the financial sustainability of farming operations. The organization’s purpose was to contribute to the local food movement by promoting farms and ranches in Colorado. Inspired by The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Tracy Sweely co-founded Colorado Local Sustainability with Jim Sincock in 2007. Proceeds are being directed toward research and development for usability upgrades to the Calculator and the entire tool suite. There is a small fee to use either the stand-alone Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator or the Grow Your Own CSA tool suite. After a great deal of time spent compiling the data that makes up the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator, and seeing what a useful tool it was for planning a vegetable farm, CSA, or garden, we decided to make it and all of our production and financial planning tools available to others.
The Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator was created by Tracy Sweely as a way to make it easier to plan HeartEye Village CSA Farm in Lafayette, Colorado. Fantastic Farm Enterprises Production and Financial Planning Tool Suite Our mission is to promote and support farmers and gardeners by providing financial and production planning tools designed to help them create and maintain sustainable vegetable production operations. Fantastic Farm Enterprises Mission Statement
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