by David Frey | Apr 16, 2012 | Food & Farm, The West

EDIBLE ASPEN
Beneath the visage of Mount Lamborn rising in the distance, Tom and Lynn Gillespie’s farm on the edge of Paonia spreads out in all directions. It’s a 212-acre operation, home to East Frisian sheep, heritage turkeys, chickens, hogs, beef cattle and a lone dairy cow. The Gillespie’s call it the Living Farm, and it’s hard to come up with a more fitting name. (more…)
by David Frey | Jan 9, 2012 | Environment, Food & Farm, The West

Tai Jacober. David Frey photo.
EDIBLE ASPEN
In his cowboy hat and blue jeans rolled over muddy boots, Tai Jacober seems more Marlboro Man than green crusader, but he’s a little of both. (more…)
by David Frey | Aug 25, 2011 | Food & Farm, The West, Travel

David Frey photo.
SUNSET MAGAZINE
Why go now: A recent organic farm boom has made this town (and the North Fork Valley in general) a major player on the locavore food and wine scene, and fall is the best time for a taste. (more…)
by David Frey | Aug 12, 2011 | Environment, Food & Farm

Touch-Me-Not Mountain Preserve Conservation Easement overlooking Eagle Nest Reservoir and the Village of Eagle Nest. Photo courtesy Taos Land Trust
OUT HERE MAGAZINE
The Barber Farm in Rowan County, N.C., has been handed down in the family from generation to generation since it was settled in 1794. In those two centuries, it’s always been a farm, and even as industrial development spreads across the landscape around it, it always will be a farm. (more…)
by David Frey | Aug 11, 2011 | Environment, Food & Farm

OUT HERE MAGAZINE
Most farms harvest crops. At Steve Heyer’s Solar Harvest Farm, he harvests energy, too. (more…)
by David Frey | Aug 8, 2011 | Food & Farm

OUT HERE MAGAZINE
Living on any farm can be lovely, but it’s hard to imagine any farm more beautiful than Pamela and Frank Arnosky’s spread in the midst of Texas Hill Country. At any given time the fields unfolding from their bright blue barn may be filled with golden Texas sunflowers, elegant gladiolas or sparkling anenomies. (more…)