OK- so it wouldn't be a stretch to learn that we've started selling hardware and power tools, but actually I was just trying to be funny. We have stocked up some delicious treats for weekend festivities though.

It’s a fine day to have our dear friend George Lange take over the Moxie update.

Last night we threw pizza dough into the night sky in Jamestown. It's amazing the difference a year makes. On bended knee in supplication we ask the Pizza Gods for permission to bring it back, bring back the pizza, the party, the satisfaction of the simplest food...

We've created a special menu for all of the mothers in our lives. This menu is open for pre order only now thru Monday May 3rd. Make sure you get your order in as we will not have many extras for walk up ordering this busy holiday weekend.

Meet Liz Carlisle and Jessica Larriva, members of the Colorado Grain Chain to learn about the re-introduction of heritage grains in the San Luis Valley and their nutritional benefits. Liz wrote 2 of my favorite books in recent years: The Lentil Underground as well as Grain By Grain with Bob Quinn. She is an elegant activist for regenerative agriculture and sings like a bird to boot. I've inducted her into the Grain Chain Revival band and who knows, she just might sign a lil ditty tonight? Jessica of Tumbleweed Bread in Monte Vista is creating some of the finest artisan bread in Colorado while supporting the Grain Chain alongside legacy farmer, miller and DJ Kris Gosar of Mountain Mama Milling just down the road.

Spring cleaning? Shovel that snow off your driveway and clear a path to that garage so you can do some spring cleaning in there! We are hosting Denver based Lucky To Ride again this Sunday for a Bike Drive. Bring in your old bicycles and donate them so that they can be up-cycled to urban kids in need of some two wheeled fresh air. These guys help Denver's kids thrive through adventures and lessons on mountain bikes.

I am incredibly proud to announce that Maurizio Negrini has joined the team! I mean, fact is he was always on the team and has been part of my home team since 1996 when we first met at Daily Bread in Boulder. Maurizio moved his family to Boulder from Bologna, Italy and planted his garden and his intentions to make some of the best damn bread in the world at that time. He accomplished that many times over and retired from professional baking last year at Udi's/ Izzio (He was the Izio in Izzio... Maur-izzio)....that is until I lured him back to come and bake with us. He is a third generation baker from the birthplace of biga, the paternal home place of pizza, the country of Ciabatta....

If you have always wanted to join the Moxie bread team, this is your chance. We are looking for a motivated, positive, dynamic bread baker with attention to detail and a sense of urgency. Send resumes to moxielox@gmail.com. We will also be looking for various other positions including baristas, sandwich chefs and pastry chefs as we create our new team in Lyons, and fill out our Boulder store.

Here's our offerings for Easter weekend! Did we mention that we brought on a chocolatier? His name is John...Johnny Sugar to be more specific. John is a native of New Zealand, but has studied chocolate all over the world and is now gracing us with his chocolaty presence. For Easter we are rolling out the beginning of our new chocolate program.

When I was 6 years old some men broke in to our home in rural Vermont with guns, they held my mother at gun point, took away her dignity, our car and some cash and left her and I very scared. We grew up with a no gun rule in the house. No BB guns, barely any squirt guns and definitely no real guns.

I was lucky enough to sing in the new season around a campfire, playing guitar at a small gathering of socially distanced divas and dudes with some lovely musicians including a friend in Lyons who plays the saw like no other. Interestingly this was not only my first time having a saw accompaniment but also a washboard accompaniment. There was a woman who performed an absolutely magical thing that I've also never witnessed. She had a large thin drum similar to an Irish Bodhrán. She held it to her lips and sang through it, in droning and ascending and descending chant like song. The drum skin reverberated and modulated her voice and amplified her song to the dark night sky. It was transcendental. At some point I wandered off into the pasture underneath a sliver moon and a bright diamond sky and sat on a water trough as slowly animals wandered up to greet me. Two soft Swiss Brown cows, two snuggly farm dogs, two sheep and a little chortling snorting scruffy pig.

A friend and climate scientist with access to cool reports shared this with me. I guess it is called a 500 hPa upper air plot, but to me it shows that we are at the center of something wild. I think these lines either represent sound waves from all of the great music being made in basements, on porches and in studios in Colorado or something related to why we got that mega dump of snow.

One year ago tomorrow Will Scherer and I were doing a sound check at our friends farm with Bonnie Paine prepping for another Farm Concert that would have happened in late March. It was a beautiful day and the atrium on the farm was filled with moist warm aromatic air, the fig trees were starting to fruit and Bonnie picked up my old house guitar and plugged into my favorite little amp and played us a brand new song. We were mesmerized. Later that week I called Bonnie and we hemmed and hawed about weather this whole pandemic shenanigans would get in the way of our fun....it was a tough call, but we decided to cancel the show based on what little knowledge we knew at that time of the forthcoming world shut down.

Folks, The City of Louisville is reviewing what a street closure might look like again this summer for Main Street. Your local restaurants continue to need support, even as the pandemic winds down. It will take many businesses a decade to recover from the losses brought on this past year and keeping Main Street closed to traffic will help a ton. There will be a City Council vote on April 6th. I hate to ask you to provide your feedback yet again when City Council has not listened in the past, but here I am asking again for your help. I would also like to point out that if anyone is passionate about Louisville and has the time to dedicate to participating in your local politics that elections happen in November and there will be an opportunity to join City Council. It is a pretty straightforward process to run for Council, and a great experience to run through the process even if you don't get elected.

When I was 18 I moved to Boulder. After a couple of hard left turns took me from graduating high school in Massachusetts to bailing out on college in Santa Barbara to riding a Greyhound bus from California to Boulder to conjure up a life plan while sponging off my best friends college investment and sleeping on his dorm room floor for almost 2 months at CU Boulder eating stolen burgers from his trips to the cafeteria.

A couple of years ago we planted a couple of acres of wheat on a friend's farm nearby. It took a lot of work, trial and error on some old equipment, persistence and innovation. In the end we put in a couple hundred pounds Turkey Red wheat seed just before winter was beating down the door.

Do yourself a favor and line up a little festive Carnival ruckus at your house tonight. Winter is finally over, the heatwave begins today and we've got King Cakes and Trace Bundy cocktails. What's not to love? If it weren't for this dang pandemic we'd have a band blowing horns off the balcony and dancing in the streets.... I promise the biggest street party ever to y'all once this whole thing passes.

I was planning on a romantic evening around the fire tonight anyway, so thank you old man winter. Your late arrival to the party is ok, and the moisture you bring might just germinate all of those late fall planted winter wheat fields.

I checked with the musicians and while they love you all very much, they 'aint playing in the snow this weekend on the balcony. Can you believe winter is finally here though? Let's hear it for winter...on Valentines Day. It will allow for lots of snuggling and cozy fires in the fireplace and maybe even invoking a little more Hygee than normal. Maybe up the Hygee game and add a little Fika break? Any Scandinavians out there?

Please join us at 11 AM MST when the Colorado Grain and Rocky Mountain Farmer's Union spend some time catching up with Phil and Jane from Mad Ag. These guys have been working tirelessly to help build our local grain economy and promote regenerative agriculture not only in Colorado but all throughout the US.