Jerome Osentowski

• Locations: News By Elizabeth Key Published Jun. 8, 2022

  Picking fresh figs on Basalt Mountain

  Jerome Osentowki grafts varieties of apple trees together by slicing and taping them, then nourishing them with mist. Once the energy transfers to heal the graft, a multi-branch tree emerges, proffering different types of apples from around the world. Photo by Elizabeth Key

  The slice of the Roaring Fork Valley population that inhabits a small portion of Eagle County often finds its boundaries baffling, inefficient and frustrating. The State Legislature evidently didn’t consider the watershed or topography when they drew Eagle County’s borders back in 1883. Jerome Osentowski, in turn, probably… read more →