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Category Archives: Greenhouses
Day Trip to Westcliffe
Visiting High Altitude Gardeners in Westcliffe from Lee Willoughby on Vimeo. In search of Local Food Shift stories, Nanna, Samantha, Laura, Kathy and I headed toward Westcliffe for a day trip. We visited Penn and Cord's homestead northeast of Westcliffe. … Continue reading
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Kickstart Your Mountain Garden
Steve and Michelle describing their garden to an attentive audience. The Harvest Center promotes healthy food and active living. This video was a component of our March 17, 2013 workshop. We presented data related to nutritional density of vegetables; make … Continue reading
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Winter Market in Woodland Park
Congratulations to our friends at the Woodland Park Farmers Market for their successful run of Winter Markets at the Ute Pass Event Center.
Posted in Farmers Market, Gardens, Greenhouses, Local Food Economy, Special Event, Video
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Thanks to our UCCS Volunteers
We enjoyed harvesting, watering, and planting together in The Harvest Center dome. We harvested rainbow chard, pac choi, and lettuce which Kathy will clean and I will take to the Community Cupboard. Today was the last harvest of the chard… … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouses, harvesting, Local Food Economy, planting, Sustainability
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Starting Seeds in January
Starting Seeds in January from Lee Willoughby on Vimeo. Samantha, Kathy and Lee planted kale, red cabbage, parsley, lettuce and chard on a day with a cold wind blowing outside the greenhouse. Inside our "off the grid" dome greenhouse, the … Continue reading
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Work Is Fun in the Dome
Laura, Jill, Kathy, and Lee enjoyed watering, transplanting lettuce, planting potatoes in pots, planting Early Wonder Tall Top Beets, tidying the worm bin, thinning seedlings, digging out a couple of clover clumps with 14″ roots, and tossing out out some … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouses, Nutrition, Sustainability, Volunteer Work
Tagged dome, greenhouse, veggies, Volunteer
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Ron Capen’s Drip Irrigation Presentation
At the January 20th workshop, Ron described three approaches to drip irrigation suitable for our high altitude environment. He stimulated people’s interest in preparing for this Summer’s drought by installing a system from Dripworks.com. Click on the parts list photo … Continue reading
Seed Sprouting Time Lapse Video
Germination timelapse from Ales Kladnik on Vimeo.
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2012 Harvest Center Videos
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Planting in November
We wouldn’t be planting in November a few miles from Pikes Peak at 8500 ft altitude were it not for great volunteers and an awesome dome greenhouse from Growing Spaces. Today we planted Shanghai pac choi, Bloomsdale spinach, rainbow chard, … Continue reading