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Category Archives: Nutrition
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
Posted in Events, Gardens, Greenhouses, HC Tips, Nutrition, Video
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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
Posted in Greenhouses, HC Tips, Nutrition, Video
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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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Too Hot, Dry & Windy to Garden? No Way!
Posted in Events, Gardens, HC Tips, Nutrition, Sustainability
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2012 Harvest Center Videos
Posted in Events, Gardens, Greenhouses, Nutrition, Sustainability
Tagged high altitude gardening
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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
Meeting in the Yurt
Ron, Jim, Paula, Jill, Grace, Sam and Lee (behind camera) held the Projects Committee in the yurt at Aspen Valley Ranch. We reviewed projects at local schools and food pantries. We discussed the successful indoor Farmers Market and showing of … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Farmers Market, Gardens, Nutrition, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volunteer Work
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2012 Food Shift Campaign
The Harvest Center enthusiastically supports the campaign to increase our local food economy in Colorado. Check back with us to learn how you can make a difference by “Making the Shift”
Posted in Local Food Economy, Nutrition, Sustainability
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Ancient Grains Project Launched
Inspired by Joe & Kim Morin’s quinoa farm near Lake George, people from Pikes Peak Community Foundation, University of Colorado Colorado Springs and The Harvest Center formed a project group to grow ancient grains in our high altitude environment. We … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition, Sustainability
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Veggies & Harvesters on Beautiful Day in the Mountains
March 11, 2012 was a great day for harvesting veggies at the dome and posing for a photo in the warm, sunny afternoon while facing south and admiring Pikes Peak. Kathy and Laura form a great harvest team. After washing … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouses, Nutrition
Tagged Community Cupboard, dome, Pikes Peak, veggies
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