Cured Introduces Flood Benefit Sandwich

With many thanks to Annie Brown for clueing me in to this, our beloved Cured on Pearl Street, famous for its charcuterie, cheese, wine, and artisanal everything else, has introduced a "PLT" sandwich this week, with 10% of proceeds this month going to two farm operations that were particularly impacted by the Boulder County floods that happened one year ago in a few days, but are still a part of many lives. Here are the details from the news release, thanks to Annie.

BOULDER, COLORADO – September 4, 2014 – It's been nearly a year since the floods swept across the Front Range, inundating so many communities. The waters leveled and swamped houses and businesses, destroyed roads, and turned fields full of vegetables into rivers and lakes. Farmers were especially hard-hit - and continue to struggle.

In remembrance of the events one year past, Cured, Boulder's premiere cheese, charcuterie, wine and artisanal provisions market, is joining with local businesses to help raise awareness and money through - what else? - food. 

Starting on Friday, Sept. 5 and running through the month of September, Cured will be selling a special $10 sandwich called the PLT. All of the ingredients hail from Colorado companies - Tender Belly Ham in a house made Porchetta, Cure Farm Egg Aioli, Avalanche Cheese Company's Cabra Blanca Cheese, BonaVida Growers' Tomatoes, and Oxford Gardens' Summer Lettuce Mix. Fabulous? You bet.

10 percent of the sale price of every sandwich purchased is returned to Oxford Gardens and BonaVida Growers. The floods hit both farms extensively, and both were part of Cured's Flooded With Wine Fundraiser in 2013. 

About Cured

Founded by Will and Coral Frischkorn in 2011, Cured quickly became one of the most celebrated cheese and charcuterie shops in the Rocky Mountain West. The market, on Boulder, Colorado’s historic Pearl Street, also sells prepared foods, dry goods and in a quaint space inside the shop offers a range of smartly edited wines, beers and spirits.

For more information, visit http://www.curedboulder.com.  Get in touch by heading to Cured at 1825 B. Pearl Street in Boulder; by telephone,720-389-8096; or email, answers@curedboulder.com. Follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Cured on Twitter athttps://twitter.com/CuredBoulder.

Shop Lucky's To Support Local Farmers Tomorrow

Some local farms were unfortunately devastated by last fall's floods and are still suffering. Tomorrow, Lucky's Markets in both Boulder and Longmont are donating a generous 5% of all purchases to farm relief. Here's what the Boulder Farmers' Market says about it:

 

Dear Eileen,

Shop at Lucky's Market this Thursday, February 13th, and help your local farmers recover from the flood! As you may know, the September flooding last year devastated many of the area's farms. Millions of dollars worth of damage was sustained as topsoil was lost, holding ponds were filled with sand, and irrigation systems were washed away. Farmers are largely left out of federal and state relief, leaving private sources as the only hope for meaningful recovery. In response to this need, Local Food Shift, a Boulder based 501(c)(3), Community Foundation Boulder County, and Boulder County Farmers' Markets teamed up to form the Front Range Farm Relief Fund. On February 13th, Lucky's Market is generously contributing 5% of all purchases, at both the Boulder and Longmont locations, all day, to the Front Range Farm Relief Fund. We are grateful for Lucky's support! Thank you for shopping at Lucky's on Thursday and helping to keep your local farmers farming!

Boulder Farmers' Market Today

It's a lovely, crisp day to get out to the Boulder Farmers' Market today, running downtown from 8 to 2.  Today's market will feature an art fair, in addition to all those fine autumn veggies and other foods.  There's also a donation program to support local farmers affected by the flood, for which you get a lovely cup of hot cider in return.  Here are the details from them:

The Boulder County Farmers Market is hosting a Support Your Local 

Farmer Donation Program at both the Longmont and the Boulder Markets. 

 For a small donation of $2 or more you will get a nice hot cup of 

apple cider provided by the Ela Family Farm.  All donations go to the

 Front Range Farm Relief Fund and will go to help the farms and ranches

 that were affected by the flood.  You can find the cider and the donation 

sites at the Information Desk and it will be available until 

the end of the season (Nov 2 - Longmont and Nov 16 - Boulder).  

Thank you for supporting your local farmers! 

Arapahoe Sprouts Giving Back

This actually started yesterday, but I just haven't had time to write.  The Sprouts store on Arapahoe, that was so hard hit during the flood, is doing a wonderful campaign this weekend, through tomorrow.  They say, "Shop at Sprouts on Arapahoe Avenue Oct. 4-6 and we'll take 10% off every shopper's total purchase. Plus, we'll donate 10% of all net proceeds to Foothills United Way."  That's way good enough, but they also have pre-packaged bags of food needed by Community Food Share, so you can do some good yourself, also at that 10% discount.

As Boulder Recovers...

I found this morning's message from that wonderful store Cured on Pearl Street to be particularly touching.  Here's what they say:

CURED: Hurray for Sunshine Edition (Vol. 3 Issue 31) Good Morning Friends of Cured, I don’t think we have ever been quite so happy to wake up to another beautiful, DRY, sunny morning here in Boulder, with a week of similar sunshine on the horizon. We know many of you sustained solid damage to your homes, but hope endlessly that everyone is safe and now dry, and slowly making sense of the devastation that hit. Please, please, if there is anything at all we can do to help-let us know. We have 5-gallon water jugs from Eldorado if anyone is still without water. We have massive sinks and dishwashers if you need to come down and do some cleaning. We have cheap wine if anyone just needs a drink, something special if a treat is in order, and we’re happy to let you hang out late and feed you cheese if the idea of going home just sounds overwhelming. I realize there is nothing that can be said to spin this all to a positive, but I must say, it has been inspiring to watch Boulder as a community band together and help one another. The level of selflessness and comradery that came out over the weekend was truly inspiring. Despite all, we feel quite blessed to be a part of such a loving and caring community. With the events of last week, the day-to-day happenings at Cured seem trivial. Of course there are still wine tastings and chocolate tastings and warm roasted chickens coming out of the oven, so if you need a bit of distraction or a bite of comfort, come down and let us relieve you of reality for a few minutes. Our thoughts go out to all of you and please don’t hesitate to ask if there is anything that we can do to help. Much love to all. Will + Coral

No Shopping At Arapahoe Sprouts Today

Poor Sprouts store on Arapahoe!  It must have sustained some major flood damage.  I pulled into its east parking lot, only to find it cordoned off with yellow caution tape and filled with tractor trailers labeled Disaster Recovery Team, plus dumpsters the size of my house.  To make it even eerier, guys in white hazmat-like suits were all over the place, carrying substantial pieces of stuff out of the store.  Looks like it might be a while before they can get back in business.  Meanwhile, there's the Sprouts on Baseline for the same prices, unless they've also suffered a similar fate.  I wonder what's happened at the second incarnation of Alfalfa's, since that location has long been prone to flooding.