West Routt Library District

Marketing tool for Colorado produce explaining how the high and dry altitude results in outstanding produce. The warm days and cool nights help the sugars to set in diverse produce such as fruit (apples and peaches) as well as sweet corn and melons. The dry climate results in production of different types of onions. The low humidity lessens pest problems resulting in fewer pesticides and fungicides being used. Easy to supply, easy to satisfy, that's...

"Examines how Colorado agriculturists, from the Ancestral Puebloans to twenty-first-century ranchers and farmers, have adapted to and sought to overcome the natural limits of land and water. Documents the state's farming history and provides context for significant methodological and ideological transformations, including the organic, local foods movement."--