It’s not every town that gets amped up year after year over a vegetable, but leave it to Carbondale to keep such traditions alive and well. In fact, Potato Days […]
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Farm Tour at Highwater Farm
You are invited to a free public Farm Tour at Highwater Farm! From 9-11am on Friday, July 14, we will be giving tours of our small-but-mighty regenerative veggie farm along […]
Community Lunch at Highwater Farm
Join us for a farm-fresh meal celebrating our Summer Youth Program! Each summer, since 2021, we hire local teens to work with us for 8 weeks in the summer — […]
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Managing with less water, western producers feel the heat
Guest Opinion By Ava Gilbert The Colorado River has been getting attention like never before due to reservoir levels dropping in a decades-long drought. When assessing major water usage, people […]
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Food…?
Guest Opinion by Miley Stuart Carbondale Middle School Oxford Languages defines “food” as: “any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to […]
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Branching Out: So excited for seed season
Every spring starts in my living room in February and March. I collected seeds all last autumn, a compulsive habit born of years of desire. Rambling about, Juniper and I […]
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Shipmans aren’t ready to give up
Tragically, the day before Thanksgiving, the Shipman family’s home on the Dooley Creek Farm in the Crystal Valley burned to the ground. Mollie Shipman knew the home her whole life. […]
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Potato Day’s 2022 mash-up grows engagement
For 112 years, through two pandemics, ‘Bonedalers have harkened the fall with a celebration of spuds. At the time of the very first Potato Day, 1910, Eugene Grubb had just […]
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Ps & Qs: Ship of fools
Do you ever think life is like a treasure hunt? Kind of like a cosmic bingo game and as we gain experiences, the squares on our board fill up until […]
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Branching Out: Magic of the Lost Trees
Once upon a time, a young woman typed the last of data into a computer at a desk in a cubicle back East. The saltwater coursing within her ached to […]