“The Standout Market in Colorado”

-USA TODAY

FRESH IDEAS

Colorado Fresh Markets (CFM) produces CONTEMPORARY marketplaces featuring an award winning mix of fresh flowers, seasonal farm favorites, handcrafted goods, and delicious food from Colorado & beyond for close to three decades. CFM was the first Denver market to require transparency about the source of all farm products and created the CHERRY CREEK COOP to support local growers who don’t have the time or resources to attend markets themselves. From the beginning, CFM’s innovative concept and fresh product selection is unique.

Along the way, CFM has worked for the success of hundreds of food producers, start-up food businesses, and food-related causes by providing excellent sales and marketing opportunities, offering assistance through GET FRESH FUNDS for new & small-scale growers, and supporting local non-profits including Stink-Bug-Project, Dandelion Project, Garden Inc. Autism Services, and Hunger Free Colorado.

Today, CFM continues to provide a fresh and unexpected venue for all things grown, raised, and locally made.

TOPS IN THE FIELD

CFM directors are avid fresh food event organizers and community volunteers since 1990. They have curated and consulted for dozens of events across Colorado and the country through GET FRESH EVENTS .

Chris Burke was executive director of the Boulder Farmers Market until 1998 and helped to build that market into a nationally known event. He is a Leadership Boulder alumnus and actively works to support local food issues having served on the Colorado Farmers Market Association as President, Future of Agriculture Committee, original Colorado Proud Board, National Advisory Board for the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Conference, and 1909 Public Market at the National Western Center Advisory Committee.

Michele Burke specialized in marketing, fundraising, and special events for a variety of non-profit organizations. She went on to serve as development director for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and E-Town, the nationally broadcast radio show that features live performances by top musical artists. In 1997, Chris and Michele co-founded Colorado Fresh Markets. For 18 years, they attended area farmers markets with their own Burke Organic Farm products. They grew 70 varieties of tomatoes, basil, greens, arugula, spinach, garlic, sunflowers, and more in Boulder, CO.

Their events are a special combination of backgrounds in agriculture + the arts to create an authentically FRESH TAKE on seasonal markets.