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Critter Classifieds: Jan. 12, 2023
Longmont Humane Society, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, longmonthumane.org
Critter Classifieds is a column where you can meet furry, feathered and four-legged friends who need your...
Soot on snow
A blur of fire-blackened trees line the trail through the snow-covered Table Mountain burn zone in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. With every uphill turn of the snowmobiles, the wind whips harder, temperatures slipping. Fat snowflakes swirl from gray skies. ...
Amending Colorado’s thirsty soil with compost tea
For people who understand compost but are unfamiliar with compost tea, the reaction to the microbial-rich liquid brewed from compost is oftentimes repulsion — that is, until they realize it is to be applied to plants and trees, and not ingested by humans...
Mother Nature knows best
Once upon a time, most people harvested their food directly from the land or sea rather than selecting it from stocked grocery store shelves that bear the same appearance in August as they do in March. Although technology now allows Coloradans to eat bananas and ...
Best of East County 2016 — Entertainment
Place to Dance
NISSI’S
2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757
Longmont Winner: Dickens Opera House
Lyons Winner: Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Louisville Winner: Waterloo
Honorable Mention: The Speakeasy (Longmont)
We’ve all...
Speeding toward fitness
"A seven-minute workout can be efficacious,” says Glen Cordoza, co-author of Power Speed Endurance: A Skill-Based Approach to Endurance Training, a book detailing Crossfit founder and triathlon coach Brian MacKenzie’s revolutionary short, intense approach to training...
ICUMI (In case you missed it)
If we can’t kick Him, we’re out.
Every unpopular kid knows what it’s like to have a party and have no one come. Even...
New hydropower could ease transition from fossil fuels
If you’ve ever spent time around one of Colorado’s rivers or streams during spring and summer runoff, you’ve had a taste of nature at its best. Supercharged, ionized air, forest and wildflowers, and, above all, massive torrents of water sweeping from the high Rockies...
The brighter side of wildfires
Just five days before the High Park Fire hit his home last summer, Mark Palke had signed official papers to buy the land he and his partners had been farming, renting and building alternative homes on for two years...
High water and high stakes
Flood’s shadow hangs over farmers’ market, but vendors hope for strong season...
Vote now!
Vote for your favorite East County businesses until Sept. 30 here: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5770823/Best-of-Boulder-East-County-2020
Hemp: The fiber side of cannabis
Correction: The Hemp Industries Association was mistakenly referred to as the Hemp Initiative Association in one instance in this story...
















