You just finished eating dinner and now you're about to throw watermelon rinds, lettuce and a coffee filter into the garbage. But wait! There are critters that will feast off those kitchen scraps. They live in your food, gut and your backyard - that is, if you have a compost pile.

While the ease and convenience of these traditional vending machines is what many find so tempting, not to mention the landscape of sugary treats, a niche has recently emerged in the snacking world - one that provides natural and organic snacks in vending machines.

It is hard to believe that a Boulder Master Sommelier, author of a scratch-and-sniff guide to vino and founder of three game-changing wine labels as well as a mescal company, would be a practicing environmental lawyer today if not for one fateful glass of wine, but such is the story of Richard Betts.

The Pick Chow! Across America event, hosted by the award-winning kids nutrition website ZisBoomBah.com, will encourage kids to make their own choices heard in the kitchen.

'With the excitement around craft beer, Boulder is very proud of the local breweries and the success that they've had, just being the producer of a product the people really love and enjoy,' says Andy Sparhawk of the Brewers Association. 'This week is a just a great way to recognize that and celebrate that.'

'The generation that I was dealing with had endured a lot of poverty ... and two world wars,' Theroux said. 'So much of what these women do is nurture and love, but there also is that depth of coming through hard times. I wasn't expecting to find that, but I think it added to the richness of the experience.

He and his business partner, Jennifer Spielman, met while working together at the National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver. They soon realized they shared a passion for cooking, and spent a couple of years experimenting with their creations before launching Black Star.

'I had some family friends who were running a similar website at Penn State called lionmenus.com,' he says. 'I thought they were doing a very good job, and I like their website design. However, I thought they lacked presence on campus, so I started Hungrybuffs.com'

Fifteen years after the acquisition, Retzloff and In an effort to maintain a sustainable philosophy, his partners Barney Feinblum, Hugo van Seenus and the market has incorporated more than 8,000 linear Jimmy Searcy have restored the Alfalfa's name...

'We've been asking the city to allow us to operate, and to let us make friends instead of enemies,' Rossello says. 'I can speak for myself, and a few other food truck owners, and say that I don't want to put my Mexicanfood truck in front of a Mexican restaurant.'