On Wednesday September 14, we celebrate the annual Colorado Proud School Meal Day. This day celebrates Colorado agriculture and helps to educate school-children about healthy eating. Coinciding with harvest season, there is a lot to celebrate! Colorado farms and ranches produce abundant food resources. The agribusiness in the state puts 40 billion dollars into the
Thank you to everyone who made the first annual AgriSummit: Local Food + Agritourism in the Heart of the Rockies a big success! With about 100 people in attendance, the day was inspiring and topped off by Deborah Koons Garcia and her beautiful film…Symphony of the Soil. Her grace, humility and openness is infectious. Thank you
Spring is here, and in an agricultural region, an iconic image that heralds this season is baby livestock of all kinds. Here in Chaffee County, as one travels the county roads, this is most easily seen in the pastures of local cattle ranches, where you’ll find herds of momma cows and their calves, frolicking, nursing,
Today I saw the first green shoots of chives and yarrow emerging from the garden. Across the road from where I sit (in the Visitor Center of the Hutchinson Homestead and Learning Center), I see baby calves frolicking in the fields between nourishing themselves with their mothers milk. I can’t help but feel excited about
I am always so grateful for this time of year, giving us time to pause, take a breath, and reflect on how the past year has gone. For the Hutchinson Homestead & Learning Center, what a year it was! One of the biggest successes of the year came with the completion of an interpretation grant