High Plains Food Co-op now has Bailey & Evgn pickup sites!

I hope this will stir up a lot of interest!!
I have been asked by High Plains Food Co-op to be their volunteer route manager for the mountain area, creating a monthly pickup site in Bailey. High Plains Food Co-op is sort of like a CSA, except they offer locally produced, sustainable, natural/organic meats, eggs, dairy, produce, breads, and much more, but you buy exactly what you want and nothing you don't!! I have been buying their products for almost a year now and the quality is unmatched. We won't buy meat from anywhere else. The bacon is to DIE for!!
From their site:

"HPFC is a grassroots network of High Plains and Rocky Mountain Front Range producers and consumers uniting interests in locally grown food and other locally made products. The HPFC strives to be a business that is environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially just. To foster a local food community and promote a culture of stewardship by cultivating farmer-consumer relationships, promoting the enjoyment of healthful food, increasing food security through diversity, and enhancing overall rural sustainability."

If you're interested, here's how it works. You pay a yearly $40 fee to be a member of the co-op. You don't have to order every month if you don't want to. Orders open on the 1st of the month, at which time you can go on their site and open a shopping basket. Place whatever you want to buy in there. There is no checkout, that shopping basket will remain there until orders close on the second Thursday of the month. You can add or remove items till then as you please, if they're in your basket they're reserved for you until you take them out. When orders close, whatever is in your basket is your order. If you have meats, the producers will update your price with the actual weights, and pickup day is the third Thursday of the month. You can pay for your order by paypal once your invoice is complete with all the weights, or bring a check when you pickup.
The Bailey pickup site will be in the Crow Hill Bible Church parking lot from 5-5:30pm on the third Thursday of the month. The Evergreen pickup site will be at Evergreen Fire Rescue Station 2 parking lot at 1802 Bergen Parkway from 3:30 to 4pm on the third Thursday of the month. I have no way to store perishables, so if you don't show up, food will be donated.
If you go onto their site, http://highplainsfood.org " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you can get all kinds of information, including checking out their current list of available products, although you can't place an order until you become a member. Orders for March are open till 3/14, so there's still time to join to order for this month!! I highly recommend this stuff, I accepted this route because I think all of us up here ought to have access to local, natural foods.
This month's pickup day will be 3/21. Feel free to post here or send me a message!!
Check back to this thread for updates as we get closer to delivery day.

You know, I could check, but I'm not sure. They have a truck and collect the products from the producers all over Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska once a month according to the orders, then drive the truck to Denver where all the route managers meet to pick up orders for their area. Lots of it is perishable, but maybe I can work out something with some of the non-perishable stuff?

This sounds a lot like Door to door organics, except you pick it up. Am i correct? Great service and wish you the best, we need more like you. Cash okay?

Perhaps we could do a booth with some food samples and sign people up for the co-op? Only members can order - the annual fee keeps the co-op running, since its completely volunteer-run. I would hate to deny them their fees, you know? It pays for the truck runs and such. I will contact some of the closer-located producers though and see if they want to do a booth or send me some food to do one for them.

drop out wrote: This sounds a lot like Door to door organics, except you pick it up. Am i correct? Great service and wish you the best, we need more like you. Cash okay?

I'm not familiar with door to door, sorry. Thanks for your kind words! Payment has to be paypal prior to picking up from me and bring me the receipt or check made out to HFPC handed to me at time of pickup - since I have to mail payments to HFPC after pickup day, they don't want anyone collecting cash.

Some examples of what you can order from HPFC (not a complete list by any means):
Beef, chicken, pork - every cut you can imagine from steaks to sausage - you can even buy whole roasting pigs!
Goat and lamb meat
Yak meat (awesome stuff!)
Aquaponically grown lettuces
Garlic powder - actually ground by the producer that grew it - no additives
Sheep's milk and cheeses
Varying kinds of produce with the season
Multiple producers of eggs (duck eggs too)
Baked goods of all kinds, even homemade hamburger buns and tortillas
Herbs, dry and fresh
Many different kinds of fresh-ground flour and cornmeal

If you signed up, March orders close today at midnight - so make sure your online cart contains everything you want for next week's pickup!

Don't forget pickup day is Thursday (tomorrow), 4-5pm at the Crow Hill Bible church parking lot! If you ordered, you can pay by paypal if you login and go to the Shopping tab, then to view invoice. The button at the bottom of your invoice will allow you to link up to paypal from there. Be sure to print your receipt and bring to the pickup! Or, just bring a check for the total made out to High Plains Food Co-op.
Also, the co-op will give you one free insulated tote with your first order (its about the size of a reusable grocery tote). If you ordered more than a bag-ful, be sure to bring your own bags, boxes, or coolers, as those that I will have belong to the co-op and must be offloaded and returned.
See you there!!