Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-part series about the lecturers featured at this year’s Colorado State University Extension Vegetable Gardening Lecture and Plant Sale series. Find more resources at www.eaglecounty.us/csu.Did you know that lettuce and potatoes were grown in the Eagle River Valley for at least 100 years? For a long time, the area around Avon and Edwards was seen as having the perfect soil and weather conditions to grow produce. For many years, several local families survived on not only what they grew for themselves, but the money made from their sales of potatoes and …
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