How does the LOVE Team Celebrate LOVE Day?! Well…first and foremost we celebrate ALL YEAR LONG! (Trick question!)

We spend LOVE DAY spreading LOADS of LOVE! This Valentine’s Day I went to Bell Middle School in Golden, CO all day SPREADING THE LOVE to the 7th grade!

These kids ROCKED my SOCKS OFF! They were AWESOME! We had an EPIC day talking to each class about the importance of eating breakfast, what whole grains are, and why you should be able to pronounce EVERY ingredient in your food!

We wrapped up class with some SUPER FUN worksheets and, of course, yogurt and LOVE GROWN parfaits! It was the best way to spend Valentine’s Day! PLUS, all the kids LOVED seeing Sweet Pea the LOVE Prius in their parking lot!

What a PERFECT Vday…it was full of SO MUCH LOVE!

How did you spend Valentine’s Day?

Spread LOVE,
Maddy

WE LOVE RED ROCKS! There is nothing we love more than a chill summer concert on the Rocks! This year, our friends at Icelantic were able to throw together an event unlike any other. For the first time EVER, Red Rocks had its first WINTER CONCERT! Performers Common and Atmosphere both hit the stage, and Love Grown Foods were lucky enough to join Whole Food to feed the hungry and cold concert attendees!

Not only did we get to go, FOR FREE, but we got to head in an hour early, with VIP WRIST BANDS! Check out that empty amphitheater!

And check out this dark amphitheater only 20 minutes later! The wonders of winter right!

Our friends at Whole Foods were nice enough to invite us to the event! So we handed out the LOVE with some of our other favorite brands like White Girl Salsa and Justin’s Nut Butter!

Nothing like twinkle lights to put you in the winter mood!

After the sun set, it started to get pretty chilly up on those rocks, but thankfully the Whole Foods tent was located conveniently next to a warm orb of light! (aka Icelantic’s sculpture).

I went closer for a better picture (and to increase my body temperature).

After the TOO FUN night on the rocks, I helped myself to the VIP access, and stocked up on bags of swag! It truly was an epic event and we cannot wait for next year!

Lots of Love,

Laura the Love Bomb

The Fancy Food Show is simply fabulous and so fun! Despite the utter exhaustion of being on your feet all day and, for us, spreading LOADS of LOVE, it is such a blast! However, when Day 3 rolls around everyone starts getting antsy. We were no exception. After tearing down our LOVE-fabulous booth, and carrying everything like Sherpas to our car, we were expo’d-out!

Alex, Jason and I were ready for a true San Francisco experience and were willing to squeeze it in before waking up at 3:30am the next morning to catch our flight home. So we first headed to the Ferry Building–one of my favorite places–and strolled the shops and took in the fabulous sunset!

We then headed to Fisherman’s Whorf area and enjoyed a fabulous happy-hour sushi dinner. The best part about the whole meal was being able to sit down! But let me remind you about the hills of San Francisco and getting to and from the restaurant was a true trek! We parked on one of the steepest hills I have ever seen..so steep that when we parked the car sideways I swore it was going to start somersaulting down the hill. And walking up that hill after dinner…well…let’s just say our meal didn’t sit well once we started to huff and puff our way back up! (And we’re from Colorado!)

And we certainly couldn’t go to San Francisco without driving the famous Lombard Street!

And then…my FAVORITE stop of all…we went to Ghirardelli Square! This is the FLAGSHIP location of Ghirardelli Ice Cream and Chocolate! I was a kid in a candy store and beyond excited about this experience! (Pretty sure Jason and Alex thought I had lost it! Maybe it was the delirium from the 3 days at Fancy..or maybe I was just PUMPED to be STOKED for ice cream!)

They even make their own chocolate right there on site! ..>AMAZING!

And of course we couldn’t leave without getting anything!

It was all fabulous and totally A JAM-PACKED EVENING! We were tourists to the max and had a ball! By the time we got back to Colorado we felt as though we had been hit by a train…we were exhausted and are just now feeling back to normal and catching up!

Now the real work begins as we follow-up from the awesome show!

Spread LOVE,

Maddy

After 2 fabulous days in San Francisco SPREADING THE LOVE, it was GAME TIME! Jason flew in yesterday morning and the LOVE TEAM had united! In preparation for the Fancy Food Show, we set up our BOOTH OF LOVE #1559 in The Moscone Center!

This is our first year exhibiting at Fancy Food and we couldn’t be more excited! In the past I walked the show (check out the blog post from a year ago)…and to now be SPREADING THE LOVE at the show (especially in San Francisco) is thrilling!

After we were all set up, we found a fun bar to catch the 49er game. What better place to be for this than San Francisco?! Luckily they won!

And since we are all about saving money (you may remember our money-saving ways during ExpoWest such as packing 6 of us into ELBY the Love Bus to sleep) so Alex, Jason and I crashed at my friend Tyler’s house. It was a cozy night.

Gotta LOVE the team bonding!

If you are in San Fran for this EPIC event, be sure to stop by booth #1559 to TASTE THE LOVE!

Spread LOVE,

Maddy

California couldn’t have sounded more appealing. Wednesday we had a huge snow storm in Colorado and to be leaving for sunny, California was perfectly timed! Alex and I jetted out late Wednesday for San Francisco (one of our FAVORITE cities)! (We of course were sportin’ our COLORADO FOODIE PRIDE…huge shout out to our 34* FRIENDS!

Alex and I had a SUPER exciting (and much anticipated) meeting on Friday…

…And then headed to Berkeley to enjoy the perfect day! After exploring up steap, windy roads, and enjoying the INCREDIBLE view, I headed to John Muir Elementary School to observe one of their Cooking Science Classes! Talk about best way to end my day…these little kiddos were adorable and their teacher, Mrs. Orth, was AWESOME!

The class focused on seasonal foods–with January having an emphasis on CITRUS! Mrs. Orth had a great lesson plan talking about the health benefits of citrus (Vitamin C, Fiber, Fructose) and then had the students develop their own soda by squeezing various citrus fruits and then adding soda water!

They then referred to charts for each fruit to put together nutritional call-outs for their soda label! (Totally awesome to observe!)

Cheers to sunshine, California, and healthy kids!

Spread LOVE,

Maddy