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Sassy the Sow was the first pig to give birth at the Rockin’ JC Ranch in Gunnison! She gave birth to a beautiful piglet on Mother’s Day. The other girls are not far behind…

Local Farms First will be visiting with farmers on Thursday, May 23rd and also hosting a public training on how to join and sell your products through the market! If you are an existing grower and would like to schedule a training appointment at your farm during the day, please contact Kristen@resourceefficiency.org. If you’re new [...]

April 26, 27 & 28   Bee Guardianship Using Top Bar Hives with Corwin Bell Friday, Saturday & Sunday can be taken independently of each other.  Classes are limited in size and fill very quickly!  See full descriptions below as well as scheduling a private bee consultation or ordering a hive. A Bee Guardian is interested, in aiding [...]

Beekeeping April 26, Basic Discussion on Topbar Bee Guardianship                       Corwin Bell       Fri   $5 April 27   Bee Guardianship using Topbar Hives – Beginning                      Corwin Bell      Sat   $100 April 28   Bee Guardianship using Topbar Hives – Intermediate                       Corwin Bell     Sun   $100 April 27 & 28 Bee Guardianship Beginning & Intermediate                           Corwin Bell  Sat & Sun $175     April 26, 27 & 28   Bee [...]

2012 was another great year of partnering and growing with local farms to provide free educational opportunities to the public in our region.   The Kids on Farms program reached over 450 school children in Delta County this year through classroom and on-farm lessons. Educational activities ranged from soil building to service-based learning. Students enjoyed [...]

  Good food isn’t always pretty. In fact, it might strike you as downright unappetizing. Take celeriac, for example, an esteemed member of the root vegetable family. With celeriac, it’s not about what’s above. It’s about what’s below. A bulbous, uneven, dirty sphere hailing from Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. If you come across celeriac [...]

During this summer field season, the CCWC will continue to install Best Management Practices – initiatives that help protect water quality and restore streamside habitat – along an eight-mile stretch of the Coal Creek Watershed.  If you would like to help out or learn more please email zach@coalcreek.org. The Coal Creek Watershed Coalition (CCWC) has [...]

Permacuture Permaculture is a design philosophy that seeks to create closed, sustainable systems, by observing natural patterns and cycles and applying them to an overall site design. Classes can be taken independent of each other.      Feb 8  Intro to the Principles and Ethics of Permacaulture,                  Wind Clearwater       $12      Feb 15  Permaculture – Forest [...]

Weston A Price Foundation: Gunnison Valley The Weston A Price Foundation (Gunnison Valley Chapter)is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price. His studies of healthy, isolated, non-industrialized peoples around the world established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. [...]

S.O.I.L. Academy   S.O.I.L. Academy – the North Fork Valley hosts thirty square miles of farm country, Colorado’s hub of organically grown food. This fertile bowl is the campus for S.O.I.L. Academy and includes the towns of Paonia, Hotchkiss and Crawford, and extending throughout Delta County. It’s working farmers are our instructors, it’s community centers [...]