‘Community-supported restaurant’ planned

BOULDER – Fresh Thymes Eatery, a new restaurant with a different funding concept, is slated to open in Boulder in June.

Owner Christine Ruch calls Fresh Thymes a “community-supported restaurant” that will be funded through member “shares” of $250 to $5,000 as well as through traditional investors. Ruch plans to start remodeling work in April and open sometime in June at 2500 30th St. in the Boulder Steel Yards, a mixed-use development.

The funding model is similar to that of “community-supported agriculture,” or CSA, in which people buy a “share” of vegetables from a farmer before the growing season and get them…