Where can La Plata County residents turn if SNAP benefits disappear?
Local nonprofits prepare for influx in demand for basic food needs
DATE: Nov 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News
Don’t toss your Halloween pumpkin – bake, compost or feed it to farm animals instead
Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November.
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Ener...
DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
By the Numbers: Why trick-or-treaters may bag more gummy candy than chocolate this Halloween
Ghouls, goblins ... and gummy bears.
Trick-or-treaters may find more fruity candy than chocolate among their Halloween handouts this year. That should be fine with younger consumers, who hav...
DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
Japan’s sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirement
TOKYO – Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. He has served the world’s dignitaries and his art of sushi was ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
Producers at Durango Farmers Market reflect on wild weather season
Saturday shopping venue winds down at TBK Bank
DATE: Oct 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News
How to cook, freeze or pickle plant scraps instead of throwing them away
My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after hand...
DATE: Oct 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms
POTSDAM, Germany – Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay b...
DATE: Oct 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
Farmers Market: Animas Botanicals grows fresh plants for herbal products
Brittany Osborn’s farm features more than 150 species
DATE: Oct 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
Yellow Carrot to close after 17 years in Durango
Owner plans national hospitality brand in ‘new cities’
DATE: Oct 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News
Farmers Market: Mesa Lamb & Wool sells both meat and fiber
Its Navajo churro sheep are raised and grazed on Florida Mesa
DATE: Oct 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
Want to eat more plant-based meals? Maggie Baird, Billie Eilish’s mom, has some ideas
Maggie Baird says her vegan cinnamon rolls are a family favorite – including to her children, who happen to be the world-famous musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas.
Growing up, Baird stopped...
DATE: Oct 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
The Dubai chocolate craze is now about much more than bars
NEW YORK – Some flavor crazes flirt with us and fade. Others stay and make themselves at home.
It’s too soon to tell for sure, but the Dubai chocolate movement seems to have put down roots a...
DATE: Oct 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Food
