Organic foods

Food

Farmers Market Profile: Soylent Greens Produce grows plants near Ignacio

'If you can think of it, we’ll probably have it’

May 19, 2025

Food

Farmers Market: Rattlesnake Gulch Family Farm makes produce and the fertilizer in which it grows

Jessica and Rich Steuck grow vegetables southwest of Hesperus

September 23, 2024

Local News

Durango producer to visit U.S. Capitol in effort to uphold organic farming practices

says big-name producers are not being held to USDA’s standard of organic

February 27, 2024

Local News

Low-income shoppers are ‘doubling up’ on fresh produce

A statewide program is making healthy foods accessible to SNAP recipients

January 13, 2023

Local News

Fruits are booming this harvest season around Durango

14th annual Apple Days Festival at farmers market scheduled for Oct. 8

September 25, 2022

Food

Rang Tang Craft Barbecue is defining Southwest Colorado flavor

beef smoked with scrub oak offers a distinct regional taste

July 29, 2022

Local News

For cheap, healthful meals, try foraging

is an ideal time to learn about nature’s bounty

May 6, 2022

Local News

Southwest food co-op sees success through virtual farmers market

jumped 70% in 2020

July 11, 2021

Local News

Durango’s only community garden enters private ownership

Property owner plans to sell a chunk of land, keep remainder as is

November 10, 2020

Local News

Winter farmers market to return for its second season in Durango

Vendors will be set up every Tuesday at La Plata County Fairgrounds

October 25, 2020

Local News

Matriarch of the James Ranch dies at 80

James led family business operations focused on sustainable agriculture

July 19, 2020

Southwest Life

Manna, Garden Project merge to advance food security mission

join to have a larger impact on vulnerable populations

July 16, 2020

Local News

Colorado grant builds composting capacity, efficiency at Table to Farm Compost

helps state meet goal of cutting waste by 28%

June 15, 2020

Southwest Life

Durango Farmers Market will open, but with a different look

Coronavirus also sparks shift in selling methods at local farms

April 20, 2020

Food

Durango Natural Foods Co-op launches curbside pickup

offers way to stay safely social distanced while buying local food

April 7, 2020

Southwest Life

Yale study puts Americans’ perspectives on food, environment to the test

production a significant contributor to rise in greenhouse gases across globe

February 17, 2020

Local News

Author, nonprofit founder shares the wisdom of weeds

Organic land management proving more effective at Electra Lake

July 22, 2019

Business

Fish power brings couple home to Montezuma County

and Tammy Coulon open aquaponic farm south of Cortez

April 14, 2019

Food

Is the ‘organic’ seal worth it, given disputes on standards?

The “USDA Organic” label generally signifies a product is made with relatively minimal synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and that animals…

July 18, 2018

Business

Zuma Natural Foods is under new ownership

provides a safe place to land for Minnesota transplant

November 17, 2017

Food

Organic-food purists assail the designation for hydroponics

Red lettuce grows at an aquaponic farm, a form of hydroponic cultivation, on Nov. 2 in Hilliard, Fla. The National…

November 17, 2017

Food

Discovering wild plants (and escaping the walking dead)

Obscura, Turtle Lake team up to teach how to live off-grid

September 20, 2017

Food

‘Natural Foods Cookbook’ author Beatrice Trum Hunter dies

Beatrice Trum Hunter, who wrote more than three dozen books including a pioneering natural foods cookbook in 1961, died May…

May 24, 2017

Food

Homegrown Food Retreat returns to discuss indigenous, local foods

will include four speakers, a panel and a rain barrel workshop

March 28, 2017