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Sustainable Winter Agriculture

Making the growing season grow longer - that's the idea for Daphne Yannakakis, an organic farmer in western Colorado. Along with husband Don Lareau on Zephyros Farm, they're growing vegetables in wintertime as part of a study by Colorado State University. The vegetables grow under the protection of unheated greenhouses called high tunnels, which hold in heat stored by the Earth at night and capture solar heat during the day. They also provide protection from the wind. These farmers plant a variety of cold-hardy vegetables at monthly intervals and record weather data electronically with custom software.

Design Destination - Zephyros Farm

A trip to this flower farm in Paonia will have you dreaming of a blooming garden at home. If you can't make the trip, try these pro tips from the Zephyros gardeners themselves!

Tips & Techniques from Successful Flower Farmers

If my Instagram feed is any indication, Farmers' Market season is in full swing across North America, with mouthwatering produce and abundant blooms enticing shoppers to bring home the best that local growers harvest each week. 

Zephyros Farm and Garden provides everyday beauty with organic flowers

Don Lareau and his wife, Daphne Yannakakis, are always busy planting, pruning, and cutting flowers. “We grow over 1,000 varieties,” Lareau said. “Over 100 of those are dahlias. When you love flowers as much as we do, it’s easy to put in a lot of them.”

As Skiers Depart Aspen, Chowhounds Take Their Place

EACH spring, Aspen’s ski bunnies and powder hounds disappear with the melting snowpack, and the Colorado resort town transforms itself from a winter sports paradise into a thriving cultural destination, with a packed calendar of music, dance and food festivals.

How a Zero-Percent Loan is Helping This Colorado Farm

Zephyros Farm and Garden has always sought diversity and quality in its organic production. When Daphne and I started this farm 13 years ago, like many young couples starting out, we wanted it all- every vegetable under the sun, flowers, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, children, worms, compost, and a life for ourselves.