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Turtle Lake Refuge

Turtle Lake Refuge

Alchemy in the Kitchen, Fire on the Land Durango, Colorado · By Rachel Turiel Hinds In Durango, Colorado, a small revolution is taking place. It simmers quietly in the backyards of people who harvest dandelions, amaranth, and other wild weeds for dinner salads. It gathers steam in a historic district alley where up to one […]

Phyllis Hogan’s Winter Sun

Phyllis Hogan’s Winter Sun

Reverence and Reciprocity Flagstaff, Arizona · By Ashley Rood and Rose Houk Phyllis Hogan lives life according to her own script. Applied ethnobotanist-trader, mother-community leader, mentor-scholar, activist-musician – these are the many roles she assumes as part of her philosophy of reverence and reciprocity. Phyllis’s business, Winter Sun Trading Company, is in a historic building […]

The Diablo Trust

The Diablo Trust

It Takes a Village Coconino County, Arizona · By Sue and Tony Norris The Prosser and the Metzger families have been neighbors for more than eighty years. Their combined ranches, the Bar T Bar and the Flying M, consist of 426,000 acres of federal, state, and private lands spread across a broad swath of northern […]

Stargate Valley Farms

Stargate Valley Farms

Realizing Dreams under the Stars Holbrook, Arizona · By Roger Clark To many people in their sixties, retirement means days filled with hitting golf balls, playing bridge with friends, or traveling the world. But Carol Poore and Dennis Swayda had another dream: to own a farm and raise goats. The couple milk sixteen dairy goats […]

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