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The weather was cool and cloudy in Telluride on Friday for the first Farmers' Market of the season. That didn't stop locals and visitors from going from stall to stall, selecting the early season offerings, chatting with the producers, chatting with friends encountered along...

12 June, 2009 /

[click to hear Beth Roberts interview] by Eileen BurnsCelebrate Telluride's colorful and storied past this Saturday and Sunday as the Telluride Historical Museum, Telluride Visitors Services and the Sheridan Arts Foundation sponsor the first ever, Telluride Heritage Festival.  This...

12 June, 2009 /

It's been a stormy several days in Telluride, but that hasn't stopped a contingent of wounded vets from enjoying a busy schedule of activities with TASP. Participants from all over the country did some rock climbing, biking, jeeping, horseback riding, rafting and generally digging...

10 June, 2009 /

by Jennifer Nyman-Julia

WWF Eric England 401 Telluride can be a scrappy town, but just as quickly, it is a place that wears its heart on its sleeve.

It's Day One of Sheridan Arts Foundation's Wild West Fest, a program that brings 50 inner city children from Boys and Girls Clubs all over the country to town every spring for a week of exciting learning programs under the guidance of talented local mentors. My name is Jennifer Nyman-Julia. This is my 11th year as the Mentorship Program Director, and I really love my job.

10 June, 2009 /

In addition to the Friday farmers' market in Telluride, there is a Saturday market in Norwood from now until October 10. Local producers and artisans are featured from 9am until 1pm at the San Miguel County Fairgrounds in Norwood. For more information on the...

09 June, 2009 /

[Click the Play button to hear interview with Tony Daranyi]

IMG_2756 The annual Telluride Farmers' Market is part of the change we can stomach.

Now in its seventh year, the Telluride Farmers' Market  features over 60 vendors, coming from a 100-mile radius to bring fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats, fish, and crafts to town every Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., June – October.

Over Memorial weekend, Telluride Mountainfilm hosted a symposium on food, and  screened the film "Food, Inc." The eat-your-brocolli message became clear: food does not come from shelves. Most of what Americans eat is supplied by agro-businesses that are no longer sustainable, but are government subsidized nevertheless. Small farms are not subsidized, but they are way more productive, netting, on average, $1,400 per acre versus $39 per acre for a farm of about 1,400 acres. Because they are so much less productive, larger farms need to pump their numbers through cost-cutting measures that translate into abuse for farm animals and mass distribution that abuses our environment.

09 June, 2009 /

[click "Play" button to hear David Allen speak about "The Challenge"]

IMG_0350 In 2003, Telluride local David Allen graduated The University of the South (Sewanee) in economics and environmental studies then promptly moved to Telluride to fish. The guide for Telluride Outside is still fishing, only now his primary target is no longer trout. It's disposable bags.

David is the engine behind an initiative of The Colorado Association of Ski Towns known as The Challenge, which sounds like a variation on the theme of the "X" Games but isn't. The Challenge is a competition of a different sort.

07 June, 2009 /