Community Agriculture Alliance

06/04/2026

✨ She’s beauty, she’s Grace... and she helps keep your local produce in place.✨🥕

Meet Grace, our new Yampa Valley Foods Sales Associate! 🌱

With a passion for sustainability, community, and local agriculture, she’s excited to connect with the people and producers who make the Yampa Valley special.

And if you’ve been waiting for a Mountain Bluebird Farm carrot restock... it’s here🥕😉

Please help us give Grace a warm welcome in the comments! 👋

06/03/2026

🏃‍♀️🌾 Running through the Yampa Valley means sharing the road with working ranches, livestock, farm equipment, and families who have stewarded this landscape for generations.

As you enjoy our rural roads and trails, please respect livestock, give farm equipment plenty of space, leave gates as you find them, stay off private property, and pack out all trash.

A little awareness goes a long way in protecting our land, water, and agricultural community.

Thank you for helping keep the Yampa Valley safe, welcoming, and thriving for everyone.

06/03/2026

Join us for a hands-on class led by Courtney Hughes, and explore the magic and medicine of digestive bitters. You'll learn the science of bitters and how they support liver function, help the body absorb nutrients, sample a range of bitter herbs and their warming plant companions, as well as create your own bitters!

Class takes place on June 5 from 9am-1pm, and includes a farm-to-table lunch.

Click the link below to save your seat today.

https://elkstonefarm.com/event/herbal-bitters-with-courtney-hughes-june-5th/

06/01/2026

Getting closer to our food starts with getting to know the people who grow it.👨‍🌾🫜

Thanks to farmer Mike at Bee Grateful Farm & Rendezvous Mushroom Co for the community tour of the farm this weekend. We can’t wait for summer CSA veggies & mushrooms. There are still shares available - sign up today and support your local farmer.

Thanks to Paula Jo at Lupita's Cantina for hosting a post-tour happy hour and highlighting local food on the menu! (Try the brisket quesadilla made with local beef from ).

What a great day! Thanks to everyone who came out. Our next community tour is at Yampa Valley Ranch - June 26th, sign-up today: http://bit.ly/4a9tKnZ

05/28/2026

🥩 You've seen Yampa Valley Ranch products at the market, but have you ever wanted to see where your food actually comes from?

Now’s your chance! Yampa Valley Ranch Tour & Local Lunch

Join CAA for a FREE behind-the-scenes tour. Learn about regenerative agriculture, meet one of the producers behind Yampa Valley Foods, and stay for a delicious local lunch.

📅 Friday, June 26, 2026
🕥 10:30 AM–1:00 PM
📍 Yampa Valley Ranch | Yampa, CO
🎟️ http://bit.ly/4fJpajQ

05/27/2026

Calling all Northwest producers!

It's a busy season for ag...but why not start your day off right? ☕

05/22/2026

The Yampa, White, and Green Rivers are deeply connected, shaping life, land, and water across Northwest Colorado.

Explore “A River’s Reach,” an interactive StoryMap that helps make sense of how this system works and why it matters.

Thank you Kristen Jespersen at Yampatika & Sally Cariveau with Western Resilience Center for this important contribution to our weekly Ag Column in the Steamboat Pilot & Today

If you know, you know. The Yampa River is a special river, following a natural hydrograph, supplying water for the local economy, and attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to Northwest Colorado each year for...

05/20/2026

🌾 Welcome to the team, Keigan!

Keigan is one of our newest faces at Yampa Valley Foods. She's a Colorado native and 2025 engineering graduate who moved to the Yampa Valley in 2017. With a background in horses and guest ranch work, she brings a strong appreciation for agriculture and local food systems.

Outside of work, she’s usually outdoors with family, friends, and her dog Goose.

Keigan is modeling the latest restock of Good Vibes River Gear, available at Yampa Valley Foods - just in time for the Friends of the Yampa Yampa River Festival!

05/20/2026