by guest | Aug 12, 2014 | Our Blog
By Gabriel Roberts, Elsewhere Resident, June-July 2014   I was at the Revolution Brewery in Paonia, CO, having just played ultimate frisbee for the first time since college, enlivened by a delicious stout and the tremendous scene of community that is “The...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by guest | Jun 16, 2014 | Our Blog
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...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by guest | Jun 15, 2014 | Our Blog
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...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by guest | Apr 16, 2014 | Our Blog
Article and Photos by Rita Claggett – excerpted from the NorthForkScrapbook.org   It’s a bright day all around. Winter sun shines on fields of snow. Inside Leroux Creek Inn the brilliance is softened by warm tones of adobe and tile, a crackling piñon fire,...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by guest | Apr 2, 2014 | Our Blog
Articles & Photos by Rita Claggett Local Black Sheep an Essential Control in USDA Experiment “So keeping this valley a pristine environment free of any even minor contamination from the drilling chemicals, and the volatiles that are expressed when they put...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by coloradofarm | Mar 30, 2014 | Our Blog
The Colorado Farm & Food Alliance for Resource Balance is a network of Colorado family farms, winemakers, brewers, food producers, and chefs and restaurateurs, who are working together to ensure a balanced approach to energy development that protects our farms,...