Farm to School: Parents Dig It!

Farm to School: Parents Dig It!

HEALTHY CHILDREN ARE BETTER LEARNERS Parents understand that healthy food choices are fundamentally important for growing kids. We know this on a common-sense level, and the data backs it up.  “Research suggests that students’ health and learning are inextricably...
Farm to School: Kids Dig It!

Farm to School: Kids Dig It!

  By Cassie Pence Lillian Brodie, 11, is standing behind baskets of fresh vegetables underneath a tent at the Four Way in Crested Butte. It’s the final day of Mountain Roots’ weeklong Farm to Table camp and she’s selling the produce. Having harvested the veggies...
Princess Beef: Combining Heritage with Holistic Innovation

Princess Beef: Combining Heritage with Holistic Innovation

Article and Photos by Rita Claggett   “We’re trying to emulate nature long ago, where you had huge herds of bison that would roam around and stay in a tight herd, kept together by predators. They’d plow up the ground with their hoof action, which allows rain to...
Highlight: Big B’s Fabulous Juices

Highlight: Big B’s Fabulous Juices

In every way, Big B’s Fabulous Juices is a family business. The organic juice plant was founded more than 40 years ago by Bernie Heideman and his wife, in a historic 110 year-old fruit packing shed along the railroad tracks in Hotchkiss. Under Schwartz family...