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Custer County Calendar of Events by date
WESTCLIFFE FARMERS MARKET
WESTCLIFFE FARMERS MARKET Opens June 17th Every
Thursday 3:30-6:00pm Vimont Park, 315 Main Street,
Westcliffe For more information or to learn how to sell
your products at the Westcliffe Farmers' Market please
contact: Buffy Lenth 719-783-4833
buffy.lenth@gmail.com
Website
2010 Information Coming Soon
January
February
February 15-20, 2010
Upcoming Holistic Management School
Holistic Management School to be held February 15-20,
2010 in Pueblo. The course facilitator is Kirk Gadzia. Many
ranchers, and I believe, some NRCSers have participated in
his schools in the past.
Mary M. Miller
Area Public Affairs Specialist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
318 Lacey Avenue
La Junta, CO 81050
mary.miller@co.usda.gov
(O) 719-384-5408
(M) 719-469-3896
(F) 719-384-7869
March Tuesday, MARCH 2nd FREE *SEED SWAP* FREE KICK-OFF TO THE
NEW SEASON!!! Cost: Free 6:00pm-7:30pm Westcliffe
Library-Community Room 209 Main Street Bring Seeds to
Swap, envelopes/containers and high spirits!
HOMETOWN SERIES - TAUGHT IN WESTCLIFFE $15 per person
Location: TBA when you sign up. To Register for the
Hometown Series Call or email: 783.2917
Email March 16th Seed Starting Tuesday 6 - 7:30
March 23rd Top 10 Veggies For The Mountains Tuesday 6 - 7:30
March 9 Just a quick reminder that the next meeting for the
community garden will be Tuesday, March 9 at 12 noon at
the community room at Cliff Lanes. An agenda will be
forthcoming.
Best Renee Tobin
View Community Garden Details The Cliffs Park: A
Community Garden c/o Sustainable Ways, Inc. PO Box 672
Westcliffe, CO 81252
March 27 The Cliffs Park: A Community Garden Due to the weather, snow covered frozen ground, and
anticipated high winds, the garden workshop for Saturday,
March 27 is canceled. However, if anyone can help on
Tuesday, March 30, please let me know and we will schedule a
time. It looks like the weather will be more favorable if
the weatherman can be believed.
We need to prepare
the soil in the hay bale cold frame, plant lettuce seeds,
and transplant bok choy and kale starts into the cold
frame. We also need to get more pallets to make "bins" to
organize and separate donations of chicken manure and goat
manure which donors have offered to take to the site. If we
could make a few more pallet bins someone could go and get
some alpaca manure as well. IF YOU HAVE A SOURCE of PALLETS
and can take them to the garden site Tuesday, it would be
wonderful.
If the ground is thawed, we can continue
work on digging up and transplanting yucca that is on the
garden plot site.
If anyone can get truckloads of
manure delivered on Tuesday it would also be helpful. Robin
and the donations task group are on Spring Break so their
transportation resources are not available to go and get
manure. We need LOTS of horse and cow manure in
anticipation of spreading it on the 0.43 acre section and
plowing it in when the soil is ready.
And we still
need rotted hay for this phase of garden prep.
Let me
know if you can make it on Tuesday.
Sue Pitman
371-3685
The Cliffs Park: A Community
Garden c/o Sustainable Ways, Inc. PO Box 672
Westcliffe, CO 81252
April
April 1 April Fools
Day
April 6 Tuesday, April 6 at Noon Sustainable Ways will be discussing
plans for the Community Garden at Cliff Lanes. Now that the
thaw is beginning, we need to get serious about collecting
large quantities of manure and rotted hay as well as fencing
and cisterns. We are proposing to have the Earth Day
Celebration at the garden (Saturday, April 24) and are
looking for ideas and volunteers to make this a really fun
event. If you cannot attend the meeting, please review the
attached wish list to see if you have or know of someone who
has (and might be willing to donate the materials we need
and send suggestions (and volunteer) for Earth Day by return
email. For more information on the garden see the
website - and feel free to join the networking group to
make suggestions, ask or answer questions and be part of
this project - or just visit the site to keep track of what
is going on. We have had two work days already. Everyone had
fun and we got a lot done. Scroll down for wish list
April 8 Thursday, April 8 is the next to the last Transition
Town Movie Night. It will be at the Westcliffe Library
Meeting Room from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. The 20 minute movie from
"The Power Down Show" will be "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Discussion will follow. Hear about the "Buy a Solar Panel"
proposal with Sange de Cristo Electric. To keep up with the
Transition Initiative see (and join if you like)
website (The final Movie Night will be Thursday, April
22 at 5PM, just before the Sustainable Ways Annual Meeting.)
Note: If you would like to serve on the Board of Directors
for Sustainable Ways or Nominate someone to do so, and/or
vote in the election for 2010 Board Members you must be a
member of Sustainable Ways or join before April 22.
Memberships are good from Earth Day to Earth Day. New
members who join between now and April 22 may vote at the
Annual Meetings in both 2010 and 2011. Individuals $15,
Family $25. You may join at either of the above meetings or
mail your membership dues to Sustainable Ways, Inc., PO Box
672, Westcliffe, CO 81252.
Website
Sustainable Ways Wish List
The Cliff’s Park:A
Community Garden
Wish List(as of March 9,
2010)
Water Cistern (s) Temporary shed on
skids to store hoses and equipment Fencing for garden plot
area
2 pedestrian gates 1 large gate for
trucks and farm equipment 695 feet of fencing 6 ft tall (hog,
goat, or Chicken) Post extensions for existing fencing to
bring to 8ft tall or more (for 708 ft. Fence posts for 6-8 ft
fence (Distance including gates approx. 200 ft.) Top soil
(clean) Manure (separate fresh manure from year or more old
manure) Straw bales, rotted hay bales (separate seed free
hay from regular), loose rotted hay or straw Compostable
waste vegetable matter that won’t blow away or attract critters
(herbicide and pesticide free grass clippings, used coffee
grounds, etc.) Wood chips for paths Old carpet (5 ft or 2
½ foot widths) to use for weed suppression under paths (turned
upside down.) Seeds for cover crops Stakes and twine for
marking individual plots Hoses, hosebibs, water pipes,
hardware to attach pipe to cistern and /or connect multiple
cisterns Large worm box (instructions to make it available)
Children’s garden raised bed, fence, and gate. Short pieces
of rebar to stake haybales Picnic Table Old windows for
cold frames Old window screens for hail protection Pallets
Seed for grassland restoration (Jim Sperry to specify) Burlap
or other biodegradable woven material to aid
in grass establishment on steep slopes
Contact
information: Garden Plot reservations: (no charge – volunteer
hours required): Buffy 783-4833 Donations: Robin 783-2481
Volunteers: Kim 783-0760
General questions: Sue 371-3685
Plot reservations, Donations and Volunteer offers can be
made by email
cliffsparkgarden@gmail.com
Labor, preferably with
mechanical or animal assistance to:
Spread manure
Disk in manure and plow to break up sod and
prepare soil for planting
Trucks to pick up and deliver manure and haybales
Cash
donations for water, payment in lieu of taxes, cistern,
liability insurance, etc.Tax deductible donations may be sent to Sustainable Ways,
PO Box 672, Westcliffe, CO 81252, specifying that they be
applied to the Community Garden.
Donations can be offered via email to
cliffsparkgarden@gmail.com or by telephone to Robin Young at
the NRCS office 783-2481
Note: All donations need to be coordinated
through a task force (for delivery and placement instructions)
and carefully documented.This will allow us to claim donations as local matching
for potential future grant applications.Records need to be kept of # hours of donated labor for
the same purpose.
Garden Steering Committee:Sue Pitman 371-3685 (for Sustainable Ways), Bob Tobin
783-3229, Steve Willman (for Custer 2020) 429-1608, Mike Liebman
371-0059, Buffy Lenth 783-4483
April 13 HOMETOWN SERIES - TAUGHT IN WESTCLIFFE $15 per person
Location: TBA when you sign up. To Register for the
Hometown Series Call or email: 783.2917
Email April 13th Growing Herbs in the Open Garden
Tuesday 6 - 7:30
HOMETOWN SERIES - TAUGHT AT PENN AND CORD'S GARDENS IN
WESTCLIFFE $15 per person Location: Penn and Cord’s
Garden in Westcliffe, CO. To Register for the Hometown
Series Call or email: 783.2917
Email April 11 Compost and Mulch Sunday 1- 2:30 April
18 Raised Beds Sunday 1 - 2:30 April 25 Covers Sunday 1 -
2:30
WILD MOUNTAIN GARDENING SERIES - TAUGHT IN WESTCLIFFE
4-HOUR COMPREHENSIVE $50 per person Location: TBA,
Westcliffe, CO. To Register for the Hometown Series Call
or email: 783.2917
Email
April 3rd - Tomatoes in the
Mountains WESTCLIFFE - in town Saturday 1-5 April 10th -
Mountain Food Growing 101 - WESTCLIFFE - in town Saturday
1-5 April 17th - Sustainable Greenhouse Design -
WESTCLIFFE - in town Saturday 1-5
PLEASE
NOTE::. All Westcliffe classes and locations will be
announced in the paper and when you sign up through us -
email or phone - 783-2917. Walk - ins welcome! Our email
address will change after March 4th - watch for our new
email announcement. April 14 Twenty-first
Century Agriculture includes Diversity
Agritourism could hold the key to financial success.
If you own and operate any agricultural enterprise or
are a land owner looking for increasing or gaining income
from your property, you are invited to attend the
Agritourism Workshop at the Community Center, 928 Russell
Ave. in Walsenburg on April 14. The day-long workshop
provides enterprises with the market analysis, business
planning tools and networking opportunities needed to
succeed. Topics include: liability & risk management for
agritourism operations, marketing and pricing products and
services, and visitor readiness. Speakers from CSU
Extension, Colorado Department of Agriculture, and Western
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program will
provide expert advice and insights into this exciting new
branch of agriculture. Several agritourism business owners
will also be speaking to give first hand accounts of the
agritourism market.
Birding, hunting, rustic
lodging, religious or corporate retreats, corn mazes,
wineries, farm tours and ranch vacations are all forms of
agritourism in Colorado and across the nation. Agritourism
is gaining in popularity; in fact, in 2006 more than 13
million visitors experienced agritourism in Colorado,
resulting in an economic contribution of $2.2 billion to
Colorado’s economy.
“Colorado agriculture is
diversifying into new areas,” said Wendy White, marketing
specialist for the Colorado Department of Agriculture. “Our
goal is to help producers effectively build their
agritourism operations.”
Register as soon as
possible, seating is limited! The registration fee, which
includes workshop materials and lunch, is $25 per person or
$35 for a couple/ business partner. To register,
visit main website or contact Wendy White at (303)
239-4119 or Dean Oatman at (719) 738-2170. Registration
forms are also available at the CSU extension office, 928
Russel Ave. in Walsenburg.
We are pleased to announce that this Sunday May 16th from
1:00-2:00 pm Penn and Cord Parmenter will be offering a free
class for us at the community garden! They will bring
seedlings, seeds, jugs and mulch for demonstrating different
ways to plant a garden bed, and will teach us about
equidistant spacing, broadcasting, seed to soil contact,
watering, mulching and of course be available to answer our
questions! People flock from all over the state to take Penn
and Cord's high altitude gardening classes. We are so lucky
to have such a wonderful resource right here in the Wet
Mountain Valley! Check out this recent article from the
Denver Post
When the class is over we will have a
garden work day from 2-4 pm. Richard Heacock will be leading
a crew to work on fencing, we will spread wood chips out on
the pathways, and work on controlling weeds by cutting the
heads off of the mullein rosettes. All of the individual
plots will be staked out and marked by Saturday, so if you
already have your plot number feel free to get to work in your
own garden!
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Cliffs Park: A Community Garden c/o Sustainable Ways,
Inc. PO Box 672 Westcliffe, CO 81252
Memorial Day
Memorial Day Video
Memorial Day Slide Show Silver Cliff Mining Museum: Dorothy Urban, 719-783-2837
610 Main St., Silver Cliff. Open Fri-Sun: 1-4pm, Memorial
Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
Westcliffe Museum & Schoolhouse: Larry Simmons of Valley
Parks & Recreation, 719-783-0110 304 S. 4th St. Open
Fri-Sun: 12-4pm, Memorial Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
June Alpaca Farm Tours at Springtime Farms See alpacas ,goats,
chickens, a greenhouse and an off-grid home. Saturdays,
June – August except June 27 and July 25 2:30-6:30pm
$10.00/person 719-783-9619 719-783-9619
Silver
Cliff Mining Museum: Dorothy Urban, 719-783-2837 610
Main St., Silver Cliff. Open Fri-Sun: 1-4pm, Memorial Day
Weekend thru Labor Day.
Westcliffe Museum &
Schoolhouse: Larry Simmons of Valley Parks & Recreation,
719-783-0110 304 S. 4th St. Open Fri-Sun: 12-4pm, Memorial
Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
June 14 th Flag
Day
June 15th
Community Garden We'll meet at the garden tomorrow, Tues
June 15, 2010 afternoon at 5pm to continue working on the
fence. We have some big rolls of fencing to put up, so we
should be able to accomplish a lot quickly. Last time we
ran out of baling wire, so if you have some extra please
bring it along.
more community garden photos and info
Thanks, see you tomorrow!
The Cliffs
Park: A Community Garden c/o Sustainable Ways, Inc. PO
Box 672 Westcliffe, CO 81252
June 17th WESTCLIFFE FARMERS MARKET
Opens June 17th Every
Thursday 3:30-6:00pm Vimont Park, 315 Main Street, Westcliffe
For more information or to learn how to sell your products at
the Westcliffe Farmers' Market please contact: Buffy Lenth
719-783-4833 buffy.lenth@gmail.com
Greetings fellow gardeners,
I wanted to remind everyone that the Westcliffe Farmers
Market will open its 4th season tomorrow, Thursday June
17th. The market will run every Thursday from 3:30-6:00pm
through September, and is located at Jess Price Park
(formerly Vimont Park) at 315 Main St. in Westcliffe. There
will be a special table set up for members of the community
garden who would like to sell their surplus produce, so feel
free to join the other vendors any time!
For the first market of the season we will be having a
barbecue to raise money for the farmers market. We'll be
selling hamburgers made with local grass-finished beef,
chips and fruit salad for $6 , and drinks for $1. Bring
your family for an early dinner and check out what locals
farmers and artists have to offer.
June 20th Fathers Day Alpaca Farm Tours at Springtime Farms See alpacas ,goats,
chickens, a greenhouse and an off-grid home. Saturdays,
June – August except June 27 and July 25 2:30-6:30pm
$10.00/person 719-783-9619 719-783-9619 July
4th of July Parade 10 am
Flea Market over 40 venders 5th Annual Car and Motorcycle
Show Fireworks at dusk at Lake DeWeese
Silver Cliff Mining Museum: Dorothy Urban, 719-783-2837
610 Main St., Silver Cliff. Open Fri-Sun: 1-4pm, Memorial
Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
Westcliffe Museum & Schoolhouse: Larry Simmons of Valley
Parks & Recreation, 719-783-0110 304 S. 4th St. Open
Fri-Sun: 12-4pm, Memorial Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
July 8-11 High Mountain Hay
Fever Bluegrass Festival
More info
The Little Roy and Lizzie Show The Gary Waldrep
Band Lou Reid and Carolina The Bluegrass Patriots The
Wronglers The Ebony Hillbillies Anne and Pete Sibley
"Palmer Divide The Swanson Family The Ackermans Eddie
and Martha Adcock Dry Branch Fire Squad Heidi Clare and
Lonsome Cowboy Hobo Wyoming Slim Son and Brothers Emcee
Don Belveal Click on the Images Below for a Larger View
Custer County Fair July
12 -18 th
Monday July 12th 7 a.m. 4-H and Open
Dividsion exhibits check in 8 a.m. 4-H and Open Division
exhibits in place 9 a.m. 4- H and Open Division exhibits
judging begins
Tuesday July 13th 9 a.m. Horse Show
9 a.m. - 6 p.m Exhibit building
Wednesday July 14th 9
a.m. Exhibit building opens 10 a.m. Dog Show 2 p.m. 4-H
Archery Competition 4-H & FFA livestock exhibitors start
check in 5 p.m. 4-H & FFA livestock weight in 6 p.m. 4-H &
FFA livestock in place exhibit building closes
Thursday
July 15th 9 a.m. Exhibit Building opens 4-H & Open Rabbit
Classes 4-H & Open Poultry Classes 4-H & Open Cat Classes
5 p.m. 4-H & Open Swine Classes Exhibit Building closes
7:30 p.m. Rubber Check Race Calcutta Auction & Dinner
Saturday July 17th
7 a.m. Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast-School Parking Lot 8 a.m
Rodeo Slack 9 a.m. Exhibit Building opens 10 a.m.
Parade-Main Street 1 p.m. Stampede Rodeo & Rubber Check Race
6 p.m. Exhibit Building closes
Sunday July 18th 9 a.m.
Cowboy Church, Exhibit Building opens 11 a.m. American Legion
Steak Fry 12 p.m. 4-H & FFA Livestock Sale, exhibit building
closes 3 p.m. Stampede Rodeo & Rubber Check Race
Info:
Custer County Extension Office 719 783-2514
July 24 Sustainable Ways 5th Annual Solar Home Tour Saturday, July 24th 2010 8:30 am in the south parking lot
of the Custer County Courthouse. We leave promptly at 9:00am
(12:30 pm approx. return to town.) Please bring sunscreen,
water, and comfortable shoes. Three Passive solar homes
include:
1. Performance Block home: This ICF home has
many custom features with a southwest style. Great passive
solar, sunk-in living room, beautiful entryway. This home is
currently on the market.
2. Strawbale Home: New to the
tour this year, this home has very thought out sustainable
materials, non-toxic paints and stains, unique features around
every corner, and locally and recycled wood used to round out
its features.
3. NuDura ICF Home: This home is under
construction to give you the best views of the skeleton of the
home. High R-values, passive solar and off the grid. One of a
kind design called "The Eagle" named by it's shape
July 31 Paca Peace Ranch for Youth Community Open House 1:00-
4:00 pm. Meet and feed alpacas, enjoy fleece crafts,
refreshments, door prizes. 2:00 An alpaca show presented by
the Paca Peace kids.
August Alpaca Farm Tours at Springtime Farms
See alpacas ,goats, chickens, a greenhouse and an off-grid
home. Saturdays, June – August except June 27 and July 25
2:30-6:30pm $10.00/person 719-783-9619 719-783-9619
website
Silver Cliff Mining Museum: Dorothy Urban, 719-783-2837 610
Main St., Silver Cliff. Open Fri-Sun: 1-4pm, Memorial Day
Weekend thru Labor Day.
Westcliffe Museum
& Schoolhouse: Larry Simmons of Valley Parks & Recreation,
719-783-0110 304 S. 4th St. Open Fri-Sun: 12-4pm,
Memorial Day Weekend thru Labor Day.
September
September 25
Cider Making Party at Paca Peace Ranch for Youth 11:00 am An
Alpaca Show by the Paca Peace kids followed by making apple
cider from an old fashioned cider press. Delicious!
website
October October 31st Halloween November November 25th
Thanksgiving December
