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Holding onto summer by canning it…

Someday, I’ll have a kitchen table again. But probably not until I’ve done something with these: [photopress:IMG_2780.JPG,full,pp_image] Co-worker Kat got tomatillos! From my purple toma seedlings that...

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THANK-yew VAL-yewed CUStomer!

I realized the other day how little time I’ve been spending in grocery stores. It’s been totally replaced by gobs of time spent at my local farmers markets. The Saturday Courthouse market in Old Town...

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New food gardens and a must-see garden film

Gardens never sleep, but salvia and garden bloggers have to sometimes: [photopress:IMG_2821.JPG,full,alignleft] (That’s Salvia greggii “Ultraviolet” — still pretty after being frost-pinched — and a...

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It … IS spring yet!

Let the frantic overschedulation begin! As if the magazine table wasn’t already overflowing with seed catalogues, spring garden-class schedules are poking up from my mail pile like thistle seedlings...

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Livin’ la vida local

Has all this sunshine got you craving your first trowel in the dirt, your first radish sprig? Last weekend it had me craving the first farmer’s market, where whatever food crops I’m too bass-ackwards...

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Hug this book.

[photopress:book_cover_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] A co-worker said to me today, “You know, gardeners are weak in February. You can sell us anything.” But that wouldn’t explain the sell-outs that are...

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Have you hugged a market gardener today?

If you’re thinking you’ve missed your window for reaping the best of your local farmer’s market, think again. Many of them are open through the end of October, though not all. This handy site has dates...

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Sustainable Living Fair offers insights from green-living pioneers

[media-credit name="SustainableLivingFair.org" align="alignleft" width="214"][/media-credit]The fair's Zen Zone spotlights natural health and healing exhibitors. The Twelfth Annual Sustainable Living...

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In Colorado, farming is the new sexy

[media-credit name="Photo by Darren Mahuron, Summit Studio" align="alignnone" width="495"][/media-credit]Aaron Rice and Raisa Burgos of Jodar Farms I knew it would happen someday. After years of...

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Fort Collins Coloradoan photo: Tattoo memorial of dead wife

[media-credit name="V. Richard Haro, The Coloradoan" align="alignleft" width="187"][/media-credit]Sean Casten shows off the tattoo of his late wife, Brenda, on Monday afternoon April 9, 2012. Brenda...

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