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I had the pleasure this past week of attending a daylong workshop about climate change and how it could potentially affect Durango’s community forest. I have to say, the organizing groups –...
DATE: Dec. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
Durango is flush with opportunities to volunteer. With hundreds of nonprofits, fundraisers, charity functions and the like, it’s amazing that some of those volunteers can find the time to perform...
DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
I like the month of September. I really liked this last one – ridiculous heat early in the month broke with gray clouds, rainstorms that wake you up in the middle of the night and mornings wishing...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
I gave a talk recently called “You Grew it. Now What?” that seemed to bring out the frustrations in gardeners. And mind you, I didn’t title it “I Grew It” because my tomatoes, my divas of the...
DATE: Sept. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
I am constantly amazed by the quality and skill of the young bike riders that are continually pumping out of the Durango area. Just this past week, we had two teens win their respective classes as...
DATE: Aug. 5, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
If you’ve read my articles over the years, you may have noticed that our climate and/or environment tend to be pretty common topics. But really, as gardeners, or farmers, or landowners, so much of...
DATE: July 8, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
I’ve been stuck in a predicament. All this moisture is such a godsend after months of dryness in 2017 and 2018, and when you live (and try to grow things) in a high elevation desert that typically...
DATE: June 4, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
Last spring, I wrote about wanting to wait to see how my property fared after four distinct seasons. Now, I feel like I have a better understanding of how water (or snow) moves (or doesn’t move),...
DATE: May 6, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
People get scared when it comes to pruning, and I’m not sure why. I’ve done some pruning one-on-one with homeowners. I tell them to take about 30 percent of the live wood out of their backyard...
DATE: April 4, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
February was a bit snowy. My Facebook page is inundated with photos of “Snowpocalypse” and “Snowmageddon” – kids jumping off roofs, walls of the white stuff bracketing the driveway, dogs getting...
DATE: March 4, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
We all have our favorites – favorite pet, favorite car, and heck, even favorite child (don’t worry kids, I love all of you. Most of the time …). In the kitchen, I would be hard-pressed to think of...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
The snow finally fell. My shoulders are sore from shoveling, the downstairs mudroom smells like wet coats and hats and boots, and my gloves have the odor of gasoline from refilling the snowblower....
DATE: Jan. 7, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
Fort Lewis College is updating about a dozen panels at the Clock Tower in the center of campus to better recognize the past, "in a way that's fully inclusive of our Native American community on campus and the families directly affected by Indian boarding schools."
