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Milberger Farms, the official green chile roaster of the Chile Chili Festival at Rock Ledge Ranch, has a great line of products available for sale at the event, as well as at their retai location in Southern Colorado. Pictured above is Shane Milberger, and his son Dalton, both who are integral parts of the farming community and supplying our local community with food.
Thank You To These Partners & Sponsors
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Deep Rock Water with water to cool off everyone’s burning tongues, Katzima Soap Company with beautifully crafted, all-natural soaps and lip balms, and GFX – a Colorado Springs-based company that has developed a product to save you energy and money with drain water heat recovery. Santa Fe artist, Jeff Tabor, was present with his beautiful paintings, speaking with visitors and engaging the audience with colors and styles of his work. The sponsors and partners for the inaugural event included Milberger Farms with their exclusive chile roasting, the Food Truck Renegades with their gourmet food trucks, Kuni Lexus with beautiful, luxury and energy-efficient cars, New Belgium Brewing with their beer, Sustainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE) with their information and educational materials for farmers and ranchers, and Whole Foods Market that carries several of the mentioned vendors products. Rock Ledge Ranch and the Living History Association are the two entities that helped make the first annual
Chile Chili Festival a success this year. Their dedication to teaching the next generation about farming, ranching, and Colorado history, is to be commended. One can support this great organization by donating to their cause or by becoming members and frequenting their many events that take place throughout the year. We encourage you to contact them and become a part of preserving history and nurturing local agriculture.
- for making this first year a huge success. Here is to the Chile Chili fun through the rest of the year in preparation for the second annual Chile Chili Festival.
That’s Natural! is dedicated to events and projects that do great things for local economies and communities – with this inaugural event, we are very happy to have invited vendors and customers from all over the region to celebrate the culinary aspects of the chile pepper – already the planning has started for next year’s festivities, and we want to invite everyone to join us! You can find the event on Facebook, updates on the website (www. ThatsNatural.info), and contact That’s Natural! directly at 719-210-8273 or thats.natural.info@gmail.com. From the That’s Natural! Team - thank you to our sponsors, partners, vendors, and most importantly - guests
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“Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.” - Margaret Cousins