Five-Week Farm to Table Externship Schedule

Ten Days in the North Fork Valley

• You and your classmates are divided into four small groups, each with its own focus — farming, wine-making, or animal husbandry.
• Work half the day in your small group with your host farmer.
• In the late afternoon/evening, the whole class led by instructors and local chefs cook together using the freshly harvested products.
• You spend one day with your small group and host farmer at the Telluride Farmers Market.
• You will have the perhaps unsettling, but ultimately enlightening opportunity to witness a lamb being slaughtered.
• The lamb will be hung overnight and slowly cooked the next day with freshly picked vegetables and herbs, resulting in a true feast for CSR, staff, local chefs, and other special guests.

Six Days in Boulder County

• Back into small groups to work on one of four local farms.
• Work half the day in your small group with your host farmer.
• In the late afternoon/evening, the whole class cooks with a local caterer using the freshly harvested products.
• You spend one day with your small group and host farmer at the Boulder County Farmers Market.

Two Evenings of Fine Dining

• You and your class dine at two renowned chef-run restaurants.
• Restaurant Six89, owned by Chef Mark Fischer in Carbondale, Colorado
  Chef Fischer believes in the synergy of uniting local product at its peak (a steady flow of small-scale growers and distributors are always at the restaurant's back door) with classically based technique and high art.
• Black Cat Restaurant, owned by Chef Eric Skokan in Boulder, Colorado
  Chef Skokan's menu is a collection of inspirations that weave together the themes of locality, seasonality, wine pairing, palate, composition, design and taste.

Nine Day Apprenticeship

• Work in one of Colorado's finest restaurants, where each chef has a longstanding commitment to working directly with farmers and purchasing as much local product as possible.
• Partner chefs include Ryan Hardy of The Little Nell Restaurant in Aspen, and in Boulder County — Lachlan McKinnon-Patterson of Frasca, John Platt of Q's Restaurant in the Boulderado Hotel, and Scott Claggett of Sobo American Bistro.
• For a complete listing of partner restaurants, click here.

Grand Finale — Community Harvest Dinner

• Celebrate the culmination of your Farm to Table Externship with a dinner "in the fields".
• You and your classmates invite farmers, chefs, and other special guests to an incredible seasonal feast demonstrating your new found knowledge and cooking skills.

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