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Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Examines how Colorado agriculturists, from the Ancestral Puebloans to twenty-first-century ranchers and farmers, have adapted to and sought to overcome the natural limits of land and water. Documents the state's farming history and provides context for significant methodological and ideological transformations, including the organic, local foods movement."--
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"From her century-old farm, Kayann Short shows how small-scale, community supported agriculture borrows lessons from the past to nurture sustainable foodsheds for the future. In this lush memoir, Short offers an ecological alternative to industrialized agriculture and reunites with her grandmothers' farming traditions as she harvests organic vegetable, raises chickens, and preserves both fruit and fertile land. Rooted where the Rocky Mountains meet...