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[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with John Cooley and Pat Frazier]

IMG_4161 John Cooley of Rivendell Farm and Pat Frazier of Peace & Plenty Farm are two of the popular regulars at the Telluride Farmers' Market, every Friday, June – October, 10:30 – 4 p.m.

Rivendell is located on the Gunnison River one mile from Austin, CO. on  At 5,000-foot elevation, John is able to get a jump on the season. The soil on the farm is sandy loam, best for growing root crops, especially potatoes.

Peace & Plenty is located on Redlands Mesa at an elevation of 6800 feet. The 1800-foot difference, means the companion farm lends itself to cooler crops and different harvest dates.

07 August, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's interview with historian Rudy Davison]

4712006 The Telluride Historical Museum will host "Hike into History", Saturday, August 7th" with local historian Rudy Davison guiding a free hike to the Mayflower Mine in Gray's Basin.  The Mayflower Mine sits at 11,953 ft in Gray's Basin, directly to the right of Ingram's Peak looking up from Telluride.  The mine was founded by prospectors in the 1890s.  At one point a tramway was built into Gray's Basin to transport the ore from the Mayflower Mine to below the tailings pile across from the Lone Tree Cemetery in Telluride.  It is said to have been the longest aerial tram built in the Telluride area.

Guide Rudy Davison splits his time between Telluride and Durango these days, and is currently part owner of Silver Star Property Management, www.sansophia.com, located on Colorado Avenue in Telluride.  From 1975 until 1981 he published the Telluride Times newspaper and afterward became part owner of Telluride Travel Connection. Davison was a long time member of the town planning and zoning committee and HARC, (Historic & Architectural Review Commission).

06 August, 2009 /
[click "Play" button to hear Susan X. Billings on Bali trip]

L1020693 Artist Susan X. Billings of mangoworkshops.com, an umbrella for artful travel, in conjunction with Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, is offering a Bali Workshop that combines art, yoga, and Indonesian cooking, September 25 – October 2, in a tropical island setting.

Billings is the kind of protean talent who is out there to prove that all of life is art. A glimpse at one of her mixed media images tells the whole story: the work has nothing to do with '"isms" du jour or with art historians' creaky theories. It has everything to do with being an original, with a big soul and a richness of spirit.

04 August, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sue Whittlesey]


Bisoncalf2 Hwr2 High Wire Ranch is one of about 40 vendors who travel up to a 100 miles to sell their products every Friday, June – October, 10:30a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Telluride Farmers' Market.

High Wire is located 53 miles southeast of Grand Junction on Redlands Mesa, where owners Dave and Sue Whittlesey oversee a head of over 200 bison and elk.

Eating Well magazine featured High Wire Ranch in its March/April 2007. Sunset covered the ranch in its February 2008 issue, as did a PBS series on America's heartland.  (The article and video is available online at the America's Heartland website.)

31 July, 2009 /

[click "Play" for Kristin's take on plaids and ginghams for summer]  Why? According to Telluride Inside and Out's fashion expert Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, the answer is simple: the updated classics are fun and great with jeans.  Worn alone, gingham might say "Mad Men"...

31 July, 2009 /

With the assistance of Telluride's The New Community Coalition and April Montgomery of the Telluride Foundation,  San Miguel County sent off a large grant request to the EPA on Tuesday for their Climate Showcase Community grant.The grants are for communities to apply for funds up...

29 July, 2009 /

IMG_4147 The Big Green Bus was on Main Street, Telluride for a few hours on Monday, July 27. Did you see it? The Bus is decked out with sustainable bamboo flooring, recycled glass counters, solar panels on the top to feed the systems on board, and its diesel engine has been modified to run on used cooking oil, filtered enough to keep the oil moving through the engine.

The mission of the Big Green Bus is to show how environmentally sound practices can positively impact our carbon footprint, and to encourage people to think about innovative solutions to climate change.

28 July, 2009 /
[click "Play"  to listen to Daphne and Don]

Someofourfavoritefarmers People come to Telluride in the winter to ski and snowboard. They stay because of the summer.

When the weather cooperates, it is as good as it gets at this time of year. The hills are a riot of wild flowers. The cultural calendar is filled with wonderful things to do at the many world-class festivals and special events. And every Friday, June – October, 10:30 am – 4:30 p.m., the blocks just below Telluride's Elks Park to the Gondola Plaza on Oak Street become a gathering place for the extended Telluride community and guests. Everyone is on a mission to find the perfect tomato, the tastiest meat, mouthwatering cheeses, a lovely bouquet of flowers, just the right piece of jewelry, all available at the Telluride Farmers' Market.

24 July, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook's discussion on exposed zippers] Zippers expose. But exposed zippers? According to Telluride Inside...

24 July, 2009 /
[click to hear Dan James on cheese and more]

DSC_4596 Telluride's annual Farmers' Market, now in its seventh year, features almost 40 vendors, all of whom come from within a 100-mile radius to bring their sustainably raised fruits, veggies, flowers, meats, fish, crafts and cheeses to town every Friday, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., June – October. The market is the place every weekend for the greater Telluride community to gather and feed a growing appetite for quality food and town talk, the spicier the better.

One of the many smiling faces we look forward to seeing each week belongs to Dan James of the James Ranch, located ten miles north of Durango in the Animas River Valley.

17 July, 2009 /