{"id":64690,"date":"2019-10-15T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-library-hosts-harvest-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:29:57","slug":"mancos-library-hosts-harvest-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-library-hosts-harvest-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos library hosts Harvest Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=55e23dd7-f383-401f-9d2d-3d732a0a6664&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2108\" alt=\"The Mancos Public Library is hosting a Harvest Festival on Saturday, featuring music, storytelling, a potluck, and more.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Mancos Public Library is hosting a Harvest Festival on Saturday, featuring music, storytelling, a potluck, and more.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Mancos Public Library<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>As leaves start to turn and the air gets crisper, the Mancos Public Library will celebrate the changing season with a Harvest Festival this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year of the festival, and it will feature music, storytelling and the official return of seeds borrowed through the library\u2019s seed-lending program.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a potluck, so attendees are invited to bring a dish to share \u2013 and a story about the growing season if you have one.<\/p>\n<p>Music will be provided by Jamie &amp; The Dreamers, a local folk duo.<\/p>\n<p>And the festival is also an opportunity for those who took part in the library\u2019s seed-lending program to bring them back so they can be used for the next season.<\/p>\n<p>Midge Kirk, who coordinates adult programming at the library, began the program back in 2011. It allows users to borrow non-GMO, organic and heritage seeds to plant, enjoy and then return to the library after letting the plant go to seed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that educating people to grow their own food, even if it is just in containers, is a win-win,\u201d Kirk said in an email to <em>The Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year, about 70 people participated in the seed-lending program, according to Kirk. They also incorporated seed-lending into the library\u2019s storytime program, allowing youngsters to fill cups with dirt to plant their own bean seed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this year\u2019s new seeds included miner\u2019s lettuce, deer tongue lettuce, scarlet runner beans, mortgage buster beans and more.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvest Festival will take place at the library from 3 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the library <a href=\"http:\/\/mancoslibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">ealvero@ the-journal.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music, storytelling, and seeds take center stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937,5737,5736,5793,5735,5741,5936],"tags":[782,28,83,29,4151],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governmental-entities","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-mancos","category-news","category-newsletter","category-waste-management-and-pollution-control","tag-governmental-entities","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter","tag-waste-management-and-pollution-control"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92134,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64690\/revisions\/92134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64690"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}