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- From Freelancer to staffer – my current work archive has moved!
- Agriculture Grants Spice Up A Pueblo Sriracha Maker And Six Other Businesses
- The Colorado State Fair Is Ready To Return In 2021 After The Pandemic Closed Down Most Activities Last Year
- The 1921 Flood Changed Pueblo Forever. What Has Recovery Looked Like?
- 100 Years Ago, A Devastating Flood Changed The Course Of Pueblo’s Future
- $1.1 Million In EPA Grants Target Contaminants At Trinidad’s Fox West Theatre And Other Historic Las Animas County Buildings
- As The Pueblo Region Plans For The Future, Solving Housing Issues And Supporting Diverse Communities Are Among The Priorities
- New Green Mountain Falls Art Installation To Use Light and Space to Explore Human Perception
- Powerful Pedal Pushers To Pump It Out At This Weekend’s Pueblo Classic Bike Race
- Pueblo Got $36 Million In Federal COVID Aid. City Residents Can Tell The Mayor Their Ideas For Spending It
- A Connection Between The Amtrak Southwest Chief And The Proposed Front Range Rail Chugs Closer To Reality
- Pueblo School District 60 Breaks Ground On Two New High Schools As Part Of Major Upgrade Project
- From Backyards To Balconies It’s Time To Think About Your Garden
- EPA Grant Will Bring Gardens To Pueblo Homes Impacted By The Colorado Smelter Superfund Site
- Pueblo’s Old Steel Mill Headquarters Becomes Colorado’s 26th National Historic Landmark
- Pueblo Wants More Pedestrians On Union Avenue And Main Street
- Colorado Is Cracking Down On Illegal Ponds In The Arkansas River Basin
- Amtrak CEO’s Priorities Could Be Good News For Train Travel In Colorado
- Historic Cabin Hidden Inside Walls Of Modern Home Is Being Restored In Southern Colorado
- In Southern Colorado, Giving The Old Cuchara Mountain Ski Area A New Life
- Potential Arkansas River Dam Safety Project In Pueblo Could Create Better Recreation
- Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar Highlights COVID-19 Resilience, Previews Development In State Of The City Address
- Plans Are Underway To Restore Pueblo’s Historic Keating School
- Testing On Amtrak’s Newest High-Speed Train Nears Completion At Pueblo R&D Track
- Wild Bison Return To Colorado’s Great Plains
Category Archives: agriculture
Agriculture Grants Spice Up A Pueblo Sriracha Maker And Six Other Businesses
A Pueblo County sriracha maker is one of seven companies getting a boost from recent Colorado Department of Agriculture “Move the Needle” grants. More at KRCC.org
EPA Grant Will Bring Gardens To Pueblo Homes Impacted By The Colorado Smelter Superfund Site
New gardens will sprout soon in south Pueblo’s Colorado Smelter Superfund site. It’s an area where toxic lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil is being removed from hundreds of properties. A $50,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency is funding a project … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Environment, health, KRCC, Reported Story
Tagged Colorado Smelter, pueblo, Superfund
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The Fresh Food Connect App Gets Extra Backyard Garden Bounty To Those Who Need It
It’s the time of year that you start hearing about “the zucchini problem – you know – you grew too many zucchinis and you can’t give any away because everyone else is in the same boat. Florist and backyard gardener … Continue reading
Are you battling beetles and bindweed? A CSU Master Gardener answers summer gardening questions
Wondering what to do now that the spring tulips have faded? Are Japanese Beetles bugging you? Or is bindweed bumming you out? Listen to CSU Master Gardener Loni Gaudet answer listener questions on the Colorado Matters podcast.
Posted in agriculture, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, Environment
Tagged gardening
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Colorado Spring Gardening Questions Answered
Why mulch is your garden’s friend and weed barrier isn’t? Why growing cilantro isn’t easy? Take care of yourself while you take care of your garden. And more. Answers and advice from Colorado State University Master Gardener Loni Gaudet on … Continue reading
Colorado Author Pam Houston’s Latest Book Is Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country.
Twenty-five years ago author Pam Houston was living in her car. But her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness, became a bestseller – giving voice to women across the nation — and it gave Houston just enough money to make … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Animals, Arts, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, Environment, Rural Issues
Tagged books
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Measuring The Success of the Colorado State Fair
More than 444,000 people attended this year’s Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, which ended on Labor Day. Fair officials say that’s down slightly—about 7 percent—but the fair was a success by the standards that count. Listen to and read the … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, KRCC, Reported Story, Rural Issues
Tagged Colorado State Fair, pueblo
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Native American Colorado Chef Turns To Indigenous Food Activism
Chef Karlos Baca, of Ignacio, grew up foraging for traditional, Native American ingredients in the San Juan Mountains. Later, he went on to learn classical European cooking and became the head chef at some posh restaurants. Now he tells Colorado … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health, Rural Issues
Tagged cooking, native american
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The Future Of Food May Depend On The Past: Saving Seeds And Their Stories
Bite into a juicy heirloom tomato from a local farmers market and you could be chewing on a bit of history and cross cultural exchange. That’s because someone may have collected, saved and shared the tomato seeds. Master gardener John Coykendall is one … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, Rural Issues
Tagged john coykendall, seed saving
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Digging Into The History Of Wild Horses To Understand Their Future
Wild horses are symbolic of freedom and are part of the mythology and legends of the American West. Yet growing herds are costing millions of taxpayer dollars as politics and society collide over how to manage them. Pulitzer Prize- winning … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Animals, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, Environment, History, Rural Issues, Sustainability
Tagged blm, dave philipps, music, wild horses
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