Kim Wille y Growing Empowerment enseñan jardinería como acto de resistencia, conexión y autosuficiencia alimentaria en el Valle Roaring Fork.
Geneviève Villamizar
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Growing Empowerment: Where there’s a Wille, there’s a way
Sunday, April 5, Growing Empowerment founder and executive director Kim Doyle Wille hosted the final workshop in a series held at Eagle Crest Nursery this winter. “Transplanting with Growing Empowerment” taught participants the ever-so-delicate art and science of potting up indoor produce seedlings — and avoiding the pitfalls so many of us encounter when trying […]
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Plan de acceso a la movilidad de Carbondale – Más preguntas que respuestas
Genevieve Villamizar Traducción por Dolores Duarte para Sol del Valle PQ: “La comunidad ahora quiere ver algunos cambios. Pero por lo lento que gira la rueda, no creo que vayamos a ver muchos cambios hasta que el gobierno municipal inicie un compromiso real para llevarlos a cabo”. Ted Zislis, miembro del BPTC El 4 de […]
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Carbondale Mobility Access Plan: More questions than answers
Correction: the Bicycle Pedestrian and Trails Commission is an advisory body and will not make final decisions on infrastructure changes and funding as previously stated by this article. Those decisions lie with the Board of Trustees. On Nov. 4, the Carbondale Bicycle Pedestrian and Trails Commission (BPTC) held an open house to review the third […]
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Why prescribed fires in Avalanche Creek?
Memorial Day weekend, campers and hikers might have been surprised at the sight of 600-plus acres of newly burned, south-facing terrain above Avalanche Creek. As part of the Aspen-Sopris District wildlife habitat improvement project, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management partnered with Pitkin County and Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District on […]
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Branching Out: Choosing change and complexity
Most of us can look back on life and think, “Yeah, that moment changed me forever.” I’m grateful for those moments, because they reconnected me to the natural world. I say “re” because we’re born connected but capitalism breeds it out. It’s a choice to find our way back. When I was 9, I stepped […]
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More than just a garden
“It’s been a dream position for me,” says True Nature’s Megan Miller, the Peace Garden manager of seven years. We’re seated at a sunny cafe table above the Yoga Spiral lawn, discussing her experiences in the Garden and her new role as True Nature’s assistant director. It’s one of the first truly spring days, so […]
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Branching Out: So much life, right here
Highway 133 rocks. Specifically, the bucolic stretch between the fish hatchery and the KOA. Thanks to ranching and open space, we have a “national park” right here. The diversity of wildlife in this four-mile stretch is more than I’ve seen anywhere else in the state — and that’s with half a lifetime in the backcountry. […]
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‘Adopt a Pot’ grows into a garden
When Leary Gorman saw “Adopt a Garden” in his neighborhood park last summer, he leapt on it, the first to officially adopt a garden through Town Arborist Carl Meinecke’s 1-year-old program. “I was working at the time, driving by every day, and it was a mess. This is right by our home,” he said, “and […]
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Composing community
“I’ve flowed in and out of trees and music my whole life,” says Lubbock, Texas native Carl Meinecke. “My dad was the orchestra director at the high school. My mom sang at church. I grew up around music.” As Carbondale’s newest town arborist, Meinecke brings richness and drive to his dream career, which was to […]