Growing vegetables on a high-altitude mesa in southwestern Colorado … during winter? It may seem daunting, foolhardy even, but for Tomten Farm employee Kathryn Helterline, it’s all in a season’s work. Helterline, 29, manages Tomten’s greenhouses, a job that entails keeping things growing at 9,000 feet through the snowstorms, short days and bitter temperatures of …
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Fruit season ramps up Local Food Matters By Katie Klingsporn Hot days have me craving fruit. Be it cherries that have cooled in the fridge overnight, cubes of cantaloupe, plums straight off a tree or a giant bowl of watermelon slices, there’s something about fruit that helps quench the doldrums of a baking-hot summer. Part …
High season for salads is here By Katie Klingsporn Local Food Matters The midday sun is scorching, the days are long and the produce of summer is beginning to peak. Summer is high time for salads. That’s partially because gardens and farms are churning out greens like lettuce, arugula and spinach almost faster than we …
A happy asparagus hunter shows off her finds. [photo by Katie Klingsporn] These green stalks are best of the season’s produce By Katie Klingsporn Local Food Matters Meadowlarks have returned to their fence post perches, pastel petals are blossoming on fruit trees and Pasque flowers have sprouted in a carpet of pale purple in local …
Local Food Matters By Katie Klingsporn Daylight stretches longer, lawns are beginning to turn green and buds are appearing on the trees. Spring is on our doorstep on Wright’s Mesa, which brings Eastertime and its emphasis on eggs. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection. …
Local Food Matters Photos and Article by Katie Klingsporn Everyone has heard the adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But with the frenzy of the morning schedule and all the hurrying around to get to work or school, the day’s first meal often suffers. In an ideal world, we’d all …
Carrots, sweet potato, beets and potatoes. Root veggies are heroes of winter cooking. [Photo by Katie Klingsporn] January is high time to let root vegetables shine By Katie Klingsporn Local Food Matters January marks mid-winter up here in the northern hemisphere. It’s the time of year when the days are still short, the mornings are …
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