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During the recent cold and snowy weather snap, I’ve found myself craving a different kind of food. For weeks, I’d eaten more salads and fruit than I could fathom. Now, I wanted something that filled me up and warmed me from the inside out. Heartier food. Good bye to salads,…
Continue readingI first moved to a small mountain town in the California Sierra twenty years ago. I had wanted to work at a ski resort. So I packed up all my belongings while living in the suburbs of Washington, DC and moved to Mammoth Lakes, California. One of the most challenging…
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As a Park Ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, I used to do a program called “Autumn in the Rockies.” The theme centered on how nature transitions and prepares itself for the coming winter. While talking to a neighbor who is new to Nederland, I realized the same is true…
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Sustainability. The Merriam-Webster dictionary define sustainability as this: “a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged” So what does that look like in a small mountain town of 1500 people? In some ways, it is the same as it would…
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