In the April 14 Aspen Times Weekly cover story, Kaya Williams digs into the “metaphysical farming practices” at Sustainable Settings. Can we credit the farm’s tasty products and healthy soil to these “spooky” practices?
In the April 14 Aspen Times Weekly cover story, Kaya Williams digs into the “metaphysical farming practices” at Sustainable Settings. Can we credit the farm’s tasty products and healthy soil to these “spooky” practices?
Sustainable Settings is ready for its next experiment, which begins with the sale of Thompson Creek Ranch at a starting price of $24.25 million in a for-sale-by-owner offering.
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Cows at the Sustainable Settings milking facility. Aspen Times file
Brook LeVan with horses at Sustainable Settings near Carbondale. Aspen Times file
Rose LeVan milking a cow at Sustainable Settings. Aspen Times file
Grower Michael Long at Sustanable Settings in 2018. Aspen Times file
In the dusty root cellar of an 1893 farmhouse south of Carbondale near Mount Sopris, Brook LeVan is showing me a cow horn stuffed with manure. The horn has been buried in a raised bed here in the subterranean storage room just tall enough for us to stand up in. To get here, the farmer, rancher, and owner of Sustainable Settings led me down a set of steep stairs through a hatch in the floor of his kitchen. One wall is made of wide stones the home’s original dry-stacked foundation.