All Clippings From The ‘Food and Wine’ Category
Holiday Spirit Invades Paonia – Paonia Chamber Organizes Holiday Festivities December 4-6
Holiday Spirit Invades Paonia Paonia Chamber Organizes Holiday Festivities December 4-6 This December 4, 5 and 6, the Paonia Chamber of Commerce is washing Paonia in holiday spirit so thoroughly that even your holly jolly will be intimidated. “We noticed…Click to view post »
Blue Sage Center: Grand Vin Showcases North Fork Valley Winemakers
Grand Vin Showcases North Fork Valley Winemakers Wine tasting and auction event at the Blue Sage in Paonia features the West Elks AVA. The Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia is proud to announce that the 3rd…Click to view post »
Climate Change in Western Colorado- What Global Warming means for Farming, Food Security, and the Western Slope
Climate Change in Western Colorado With Special Matinee Screening of “This Changes Everything” What Global Warming means for Farming, Food Security, and the Western Slope PAONIA, COLO. – Join community leaders, expert panelists, farmers and chefs as we discuss food…Click to view post »
Redlands Mesa Kuntz Chicken Ranch Reviewed by Leroux Creek APC
Redlands Mesa Kuntz Chicken Ranch Reviewed by Leroux Creek APC By Thomas Wills Leroux Creek Advisory Planning Committee September 15, 2015 – Hotchkiss Fire Station Members present: Dan Bolton, Dan Stucker, Susan Raymond, Kim Shay and Tom Wills (this reporter…Click to view post »
Valley Gardening: The Fabulous Non-Commercial Egyptian Walking Onion
Egyptian Walking onions in a Hotchkiss street planter – 2014 Valley Gardening: The Fabulous Non-Commercial Egyptian Walking Onion By Thomas Wills In the 1990’s my wife and I became friends with a wonderful older couple, Joe and Mary Monson,…Click to view post »
September: Valley Organic Growers News and Information
September: Valley Organic Growers News and Information USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Grant and loan training Sep 17, Meeker, 9am-1pm From the USDA: 25% Grant for cost of purchase and installation of energy efficiency improvements or renewable energy…Click to view post »
Kuntz Denied Variances on Already Built, but Not Operating, Chickenhouse
Kuntz Denied Variances on Already Built, but Not Operating, Chickenhouse By Thomas Wills The rumours circulating in the early spring when the Kuntz (pronounced koon-tz) Ranch’s chicken layer house was being constructed on Redlands Mesa may have had some basis…Click to view post »
Centennial: The Houseweart Family Marks 100 Years in Local Ranching
Old tractor on the Houseweart farm – Photo by Tom Wills Centennial: The Houseweart Family Marks 100 Years in Local Ranching By Thomas Wills The extended Houseweart family and friends of Hotchkiss and Rogers Mesa spent their Fourth of July…Click to view post »
Local Foods: Rainbows and Rye Bread
Rainbows and Rye Bread By Monica Wiitanen –Small Potatoes Farm and Bakery – Lamborn Mesa, Paonia The oven temperature (in the outdoor brick oven) needed checking one early morning and before I got to the oven my eye caught a…Click to view post »
North Fork Kid’s Pasta Project Offers Internships to Teens
Kid’s Pasta Project Offers Internships to Teens (Submitted) Most people who attend a Kids’ Pasta Project (KPP) dinner at Delicious Orchards this summer will recognize that kids are serving community organizations. They might notice that the kids have rolled…Click to view post »
