Mountain Biking: Rubber side down- Time for a TurnaroundWell, my friends, things are finally looking up, and good timing, too, since I’m sure you’re all sick of me bitching. Recent bike build, including wheels… fun! In what feels like a fairly short time, I’ve come from sitting around … Continue reading → […]
- This Raised My PulseHey, baby… wanna ride? I may be injured, but I’m not dead yet. I can still have racy thoughts. Here’s more info. In other news, UBI was an awesome success! I had a blast. I highly recommend it. Overhaul day…. … Continue reading → […]
- Time for a Turnaround
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Eagle Crest Elementary students G.R.O.W. their own gardens
Eagle Crest Elementary student rope off their square foot gardens | Kira Horvath
On Earth day, students at Eagle Crest Elementary geared up for the final stages of their year-long G.R.O.W. project. For the project, which stands for Gardens Renew Our World, students were each able to create their own 1 square foot garden with plants like lettuce, cabbage, radishes, spinach and marigolds.
They started in October with “Leave No Child Inside” day by holding a garden groundbreaking where students cleared a 20-by-20 foot area to get ready for the gardens. Then parents and students got together in December to build 20 planters for the project. Read more
Agriburbia (noun): Like suburbia, but with lawns you can eat
Matthew "Quint" Redmond walks a lettuce field in Lakewood. Redmond sees a future where homes are engulfed by farms that feed them — and make income by also selling to local restaurants. His 944-home project in Milliken is ready to break ground. (Craig F. Walker | The Denver Post)
A new suburbia is coming to the Front Range.
Except instead of homes surrounded by perfectly coiffed lawns and precisely manicured golf courses, these housing developments would exist in the midst of a working farm.
Now a visionary urban planner is bringing his “agriburbia” concept to the Denver-metro area, including one possibility in Boulder.
From this weekend’s Denver Post:
Six years ago, Matthew “Quint” Redmond suggested to Milliken planners that a corn farm north of Denver could increase its agricultural value and still anchor nearly a thousand homes.
“I got laughed out of the room,” Redmond said.
Today, Milliken’s 618-acre Platte River Village is ready for construction, with 944 planned homes surrounded by 108 acres of backyard farms and 152 acres of drip- irrigated community farms. The plan is for the farms to feed local residents and supply restaurants while paying for community upkeep. And Redmond, a 47-year-old planner-farmer, has 13 other Front Range projects mulling his “agriburbia” concept. Read more
