Aspen Community Foundation selected 68 non-profit organizations spanning from Aspen to Parachute that will receive a portion of its $835K Community Grant this year.
Local nonprofit Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers has a new paid opportunity open to tenth through twelfth grade students in the Aspen-Parachute region. Aspen Public Radio joined students in the program on a recent Saturday for a day of snowshoeing and backcountry skills training at Ashcroft.
Local farms are working to educate and involve youth in local food systems in response to the rising census age in farmers and dwindling number of viable farms in the country.
Editor’s note: This the second of a series on farming in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. Farmers said that those who come to purchase goods at farmers markets should work to understand how.
On a recent summer day, local residents gathered for the second-annual community lunch at Highwater Farm in Silt. The lunch is hosted by high school students in the farm’s eight-week summer youth program, which launched last year.