The Colorado Sun spoke with industry leaders about vertical indoor farming and how its changing the environment, business and food culture
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“A secret garden”: Hidden peonies on a farm near Pueblo became a public obsession
Just east of Pueblo, U.S. 50 stretches flat toward the plains, the glare of the sun muting the scrubby fields into dusty shades of brown and tan. It’s where the speed limit rises and you barely notice the trucking company yard, the cement plant or the wooden pallet-making company. South of the Arkansas River, where […]
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For Colorado’s rural seniors, coronavirus strains access to home-based care — just as it’s needed most
Gary Wilkie never wants to go back to a nursing home, but the 79-year-old knows that without more people in his life to support him, he may need to. Wilkie spends most of his days alone in a one-bedroom apartment on the third floor of an affordable-housing complex in Durango. He watches television to pass […]
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Digging. Planting. Weeding: How gardening became meditation during coronavirus
The tomatoes are coming in… Most evenings after work and in the morning on weekends, I step gingerly around the tomato plants in the garden, push aside a branch or two and look for the telltale flash of red that signals a ripening tomato. Is it ready? Will it deliver the rich, savory flavor you […]
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A tiny garden in Boulder is showing signs of stress from smog. The scientist behind it is thrilled.
The first time Danica Lombardozzi noticed tiny brown and black spots covering the leaves of her garden plants, she was thrilled. Her garden was serving its purpose. Each summer, Lombardozzi, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, watches excitedly as cutleaf coneflowers, milkweed, snap beans and potatoes sprout in a small garden […]
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How a small Colorado town fought the Japanese beetle and won
PALISADE — In 2003, Brant Harrison needed a project. The Palisade peach grower was part of an agricultural leadership program and needed something good. Around the same time, he attended a meeting hosted by Colorado State University about a new insect found in the area: Japanese beetles. They’d found a few in 2002. “The next […]