While the state isn’t known for growing hops, these farmers are infusing local ciders, beers and spirits with flavors from just down the road
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Posted inFood and Restaurants
“I haven’t slept good all summer”: Farmers worry about delayed Pueblo chile crop after wild weather
Avid chile fans will still be able to grab chiles at Pueblo’s annual festival. But folks in other parts of Colorado or out-of-state may not be so lucky.
Posted inEquity
For women farm owners in Colorado, the leading concerns are crops and animals, not sexism
More women are finding training and support for dealing with pests, weather and how to purchase land to farm and ranch in Colorado
Posted inClimate
Hail storms, slim margins and regulations leave Colorado farmers with an uphill battle
This year’s wheat harvest season has been particularly difficult. And many farmers are saying it’s hard to stay profitable.
Posted inEquity
Human-rights movement comes to Colorado with promise of more protections, rights for farmworkers
Beginning this season, Rancho Durazno in Palisade is the first agricultural enterprise in Colorado to join the Fair Food Program, an innovative human-rights movement that began a dozen years ago in Florida’s vast tomato fields.
Posted inColoradans
After internment, Japanese Americans took to farming in rural Colorado. Now, their legacies are at risk of fading.
Japanese American farmers built multigenerational businesses in Colorado after WWII and decades later, economic hardships make it difficult for them to stay afloat.
Posted inWater
One Colorado river basin has been drying for years. It’s changing a way of life.
Are the lessons from a $30 million effort to restore the parched Republican River a road map for other rivers, or a warning?
Posted inCartoons
Jim Morrissey: Fixing things on the Colorado farm
Cartoonist Jim Morrissey notes that the right to repair law may not sit too well with equipment manufacturers, but it promises to be a boon to farmers. Goats find it tasty, too!
Posted inBusiness
Colorado, 10 other states consider “right to repair” for farming equipment
Lawmakers introduced bills that would force manufacturers to provide the tools, software, parts and manuals needed for farmers to do their own repair
Posted inEnergy
How Coloradans can find home electrification rebates and save big
We sorted through new and tantalizing layers of federal, state, Xcel and local credits for buying clean heat pumps, water heaters and more