Outdoors

    I stopped in at Picadilly’s Nursery recently for a last look around before they close their retail doors (they have announced they’re going to grow vegetables for wholesale).
    I worked there for just over a year a few years back, completed my horticulture internship there and was the perfect employee: most of my salary went right back to them as I shopped and hauled plants home every few days.

    As the 2011-12 big and small game hunting opens, too many unprepared and uninformed hunters may find themselves on the list of violators of the state hunting regulations. For the most part, violations are unintentional, simply the result of failing to do a careful review and reading the regulations.
    Rick Basagoitia, the San Luis Valley’s area wildlife manager, reminds hunters to set aside time the review regulations.

Linda C. Young
Green Thumbs Up
    History has not recorded the exact date that man first realized he could harvest a seed from a plant, stick it in the ground, and grow another plant from it. But I’m sure that within a week or two, the first article about garden trends was being etched on stone tablets.

     Tourism is a major economic factor in Colorado that pumps considerable dollars into Colorado’s economy. One visitor, I would submit, that is neglected in the Front Range Colorado’s state tourism census is the thousands of graceful and resourceful migrating Canada geese.
    Somewhere in the range of a half million Canada geese travel into and through Colorado in their migration cycles. However, some spend the winter here in Colorado and a growing number have taken up permanent residency in the Mile High State.