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TRAILS18 & TRAVEL ALIA STRONG and her husband Zack drove Northwest and back –with their 17-month-old daughter Hazel. A month on the road with a baby? No where near as daunting for this mom as being house-bound during a pandemic MP41’sBACK-TO-SCHOOLSTUDENTESSAYCONTESTWINNERSGEAR28 UP When you’ve got to pack everything you need for a month on the road with kids, ask MAILE SPUNG for ideas. Her list this time covers your travel dining room plus a few other essentials you’ll use when you get home from your trip. ALCHEMISTS33 OF SOIL They didn’t plan to be farmers. BROOK AND ROSE LEVAN of Sustainable Settings started out as artists, college theTurnscritiquecreatorsFulbrightprofessors,fellows,andofprojectsthattheculture.out,that’swhatranchisallabout. AUTUMN 2022 . ISSUE 27 MOUNTAINPARENT HERE FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE. Autumn NOVEMBEROCTOBERSEPTEMBERPLANSMAKE52 (above: Renee Ramge) Apples taste better when you pick them yourself. Get details about nearby you-pick-’em orchards and farm stands at MOUNTAINPARENT.COM

MOUNTAINPARENT.COM IN9 SEASON GHOSTS FROM OUR PAST JEANNE SOULDERN takes us on a tour of nearby places where you can have an encounter with our living history. HELPING12 HANDS ASPEN YOUTH CENTER & ECOFLIGHT A collaboration to give teens a life-changing perspective. MYKENZIE ROY GOOD15 SPORTS ROARING FORK CYCLING Coach EMMA BORCHERS writes about biking with RFC as a studentathlete, and then stepping into a leadership role in the organization. MAKE55 PLANS Community recreation, library programming, weekend activities for all ages, enrichment classes, and OUT-OF-SCHOOL options. COMMUNITY Autmn JANE MASON Mother, writer, swimmer, and forager, Jane spends as Find, prepare and share a wild harvest. ONLINE ONLY MP’s LOCALLY SOURCED SHOPPING GUIDE + WINTER WELLNESS illustrations: ELANA ROYER Lilybart UP NEXTWinter GATHERER Hunter SUCH AS IT IS … The opinions and views expressed by contributors to MOUNTAIN PARENT are not necessarily those of the Publisher. Mountain Parent LLC is registered with the State of Colorado. Reproduction or use of editorial or graphic content without permission is prohibited. SAY HELLO PUBLISHERMOUNTAINPARENT.COM KATHRYN Kathryn@MountainParent.comCAMP

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It seems that every weekend, Alia loads up the slide-in truck-top camper, so she and Zack can take their two-year-old daughter Hazel camping. Join them in our Trails & Travel feature where Alia writes about their meandering route through the northern Rockies, to latest adventure? To Sweden for ten days with Hazel to attend a friend’s wedding. “It was challenging to do a trip like this with a 28-month-old –but worth it,” Alia wrote. “I think we all learned a lot, both good and bad.”

ELANA ROYER Founder of LILYBART, an Aspen greeting card and paper-art line created to raise awareness of Cystic Fibrosis. Fall has always been my favorite time of year. The beginning of school, falling leaves, hot apple cider, crisp, cool weather, cozy sweaters, and Indian summer days are a few reasons why I love Autumn. Albeit brief, this is a most spectacular time to venture out into the forests. This cover was inspired by the season’s rich palette of colors, the forest creatures preparing for winter, and the crinkle of leaves beneath one’s feet while traversing mountain trails. I created one of the aspen trees with the words of one of my favorite poems. Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day.

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I felt stircrazy. About a month postpartum, it was COVID lockdown, and my husband, Zack, and I felt more isolated than you already do as new parents. We were looking especially hot and dry summer. I felt totally overwhelmed with my newborn, and now it would be over a year before we could get away. Isolation is a funny thing, as we now all know. Perhaps the lack of outside contact when we needed it most manifested into a need to leave it all behind. In my sleep-deprived brain, I began to dream of escape. Northwest. It would allow us to have long-overdue visits with friends, see new country, and make up for lost time on the road. Thus our planning began. all there is to see in this country. America, after all, has a lot to offer in her diverse landscapes and adventures. old daughter Hazel in her car seat, and headed out. I was fortunate enough to be able we needed to go. Hiking, for me, slows the world down and allows you to take in the views, smells, and newness of a place. Hazel was not yet walking (a bonus) and loved being in the backpack, sometimes up to 6 hours a day. summer, we did not have to make reservations (until we hit the Oregon Coast), but I we were welcomed with lovely meals, showers, and laundry if needed. Out of 31 days of travel, we spent a total of seven nights in hotels or a VRBO. It was a nice break from being contained in our camper, and a good way to really clean up. Despite all the travel and new places, Hazel stayed on a schedule. We almost never drove more than 3-4 hours between destinations and tried to drive during her mideverything new no matter what their age. I sometimes feel bleak about the environmental crisis, but there is so much beauty in what the natural world can provide. We want to instill in her a sense of wonderment and allow her to see the potential she has in this world. The potential to make it better and her own potential to craft a life grounded in nature. Why not start now?

ALIA STRONG Lunch stop at Whaleshead Beach on the Oregon Coast – a memorable stop, not only because of the grand scenery all by herself! She also screamed in terror at the waves.

Wanderlust with a baby? Our month on the road to and from the TRAILS & TRAVEL

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Zack Tripp planned included iconic roadways. The entire distance totaled around miles. HOME WHEN WILL WE GET THERE? How many times do you suppose the kids will ask this during your monthlong lap around the upper-left quadrant of the U.S.? Here's how they can having a fresh perspective onlocation?themap by noticing the changes in terrain out of your Howwindshield.manytimes will you cross drive through. Why? Be sure to lift your feet when you cross a Draw a star on each place you stay for the night. How many mountain peaks What other bodies of water We named only 10 cities on this map. Count how many cities and towns you drive through. map. How many will you drive past? How many will you visit? Pick a point on the map. it will take to get to that spot from where you are now. {KC}

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WIND RIVER RANGE to a beautiful dispersed camping area along the Green River among rolling sage hills be the new normal in the West, the smoke rolled in and our panoramic view of the hike on Long Lake Trail for me to see how such a different mountain range is so close to home.

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BIG SKY We drove north through Jackson Hole for breakfast with friends before continuing over Persephone Bakery Yellowstone National Park Rut Mountain Run Trail Race, the race that omnipresent.

SEELEY-SWAN LAKE VALLEY (A) marks the beginning of a long line of lakes tucked in (B). As we drove the smoke seemed to cling to every air particle and the dryness shriveled our lungs with every breath. We entered a large pine forest with log cabins dotting the lakesides, and general stores here and there. We made our way to Rainy Lake Campground (C) Holland Lake the second. The lakes were clear and warm, great for swimming and wading.

PINEDALE & BONDURANT The next day took us into the town of Pinedale, a park and ice cream. That night we had dinner in Bondurant with my old Aspen and witnessed an epic lightning storm popping across the vast Wyoming sky. While on the road, everything our slide-in camper, roughly 75-square-feet, so outside spaces become dining and hangout areas.

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BOZEMAN Bozeman is a college town. Keeping pace with most mountain towns, it has grown exponentially over the past decade or so, but still has charm Wild Crumb serves croissants, to hearty burritos. Hazel was a huge fan of Sweet Peaks, a

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GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. The Park itself was packed despite being early autumn. Reservations are needed for camping and some hikes require them too. We did neither and drove until we found a trailhead with a parking spot. The drive through the park is nothing short of spectacular. We recommend driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road (E) hike up Piegan Pass Trail. It was a foggy and moody day, enough, take a dive into Lake McDonald (F) on your way out of the park

We hiked up to Glacier Lake. The smoke road leaving Colorado, and it lingered all the way to the East side of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State.

GLACIER LAKE (D) and lounged at the lake in a veil of smoke. The beauty of the forest and the grand silhouette of the peaks let us know the view could have been spectacular and we were sad not to witness its full glory. The next day, Lion Creek led us up a beautiful pink bouldered trail, a very different hike and and waded in the pools. It was a peaceful break from the smoke-laden scene. This needs a speed boat? We could have easily spent a week in this area.

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WHITEFISH to the local bakery, Fleur Bake Shop, for delicious croissants Flathead Lake is a destination for all the water sports you could ask park, which we hiked up one rainy day

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From our campsite at Queets River, we could hike right up into the rainforest. The layers of greenery and textures of plants were like eye candy for us, so verdant and refreshing after two weeks in the dry mountains. FALLS

We stretched our legs for a short hike up to Kootenai Falls on our way across Not only were we eager to get to the Cascades, but the vibes in Idaho at the time were not particularly welcoming. This feeling was ever-present throughout our state, including our homestate, CO. bubble can feel like a culture shock sometimes. This trip reminded us of how differing opinions across our country can unite or divide us. When 2020, the political climate around America was fuming, and it seemed that everywhere we went, we experienced another reminder of the divisiveness in our country. From COVID, to the 2020 election, to driving between cities and rural areas, we experienced it all. We felt it whether we wore our face masks or not. It seemed as if we always chose wrong. Nearly every business had signage making mask wearing and vaccines either a crime or a saintly deliverance. We were dealt whithering looks from folks who thought we should have remained at home in solitude. Bumper stickers, with profanity about any and all issues. We see it all over social media, but it 5

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Rainy Pass Trail. It was worth it! The top of the pass boasted incredible views of glacial mountains, something lake that the hike circumnavigated. The (B) pops in and out a few times too, so town. Our last day in the park took us over the pass to the west side of the range. It was a dramatic difference. The east side is more akin to the vegetation we have here. Drier soils, big pines, and vast views. The west side is a rainforest; dense with lots of deciduous underbrush, moss, roots, and every color green. We hiked to Pyramid Lake in the pouring rain, but it was such a welcome difference from the dryness that we were happy to be drenched. We felt revived. After a couple of hours on the trail, we peeled off our soaked gear

HOH RAINFOREST IN OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK We drove up into the Hoh Rain Forest (E) the next day, which is located in the Park. It boasts large trees, ferns, cloverwalked will eventually lead you into the interior of the park for the ambitious folks looking to catch a glimpse of, or even climb, Mount Olympus (F), On our last night, we camped along the Queets River (G). The drive to this camp was fairly disturbing. You drive through clear-cut forests and the dichotomy of the peninsula becomes very clear. A national park of pure wonder slammed against a logging industry that has devoured a large portion of the wilderness. Once we reached Queets River, we were again spruce we had ever seen.

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NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK

It took a couple of days to get side of North Cascades National Park. Winthrop and Twisp are adorable small towns on the edge of the Cascades – great for a short your legs as you stroll around the quaint streets. We camped at (A) Klipchuck , a fairly large campground that lies along Winter Creek. I have a thing for cold, crystal clear, mountain streams and Winter Creek met these needs. We hiked up Driveway Butte Trail dryness was ever-present.

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First, we spent a couple of days in the Seattle/Tacoma area (6) seeing friends and drying out in a hotel. Then we headed to the Olympic Peninsula for four days, which turned out camping at Lake Crescent at Fairholme Campground (C). and when I “stood” vertically, I could still see my toes in full detail. The old-growth forest contained hundreds of years of secrets. It is a forest that does not see a lot of sunshine and is shrouded year-round in water, mosses, and dampness.

SOL DUC WATERFALL (D) Another ambitious 8-mile hike with our kid, but… I must words that she learned on this trip was “tree,” so I know she was absorbing the new scenery. The day was chilly but felt glorious expose themselves from the soil in search of dry air. The trees are giant and dense with water. There is mud, there are crystal streams everywhere and this is my heaven.

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If you have never driven Highway 101 (5) California coast, put it on your list. I despise being in the car (ironic for this trip I know), but this coastline captures my attention. Noticeably different from where we had been, camping along the coast was more crowded and less private on the beaches than in the mountains. The campgrounds attract a different crowd as well, perhaps due to the location and ease of access from nearby cities. Regardless, the campgrounds were nice and the beach (shown here) at Cape Lookout State Park (A) was awesome. In Oregon, rough waves, cliffed coastlines, and cute beach towns with seafood shops and ice cream parlors, such as Astoria (B), Waldport (C), and Charleston (D) 24-29 30-31 HOME

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After a stop visiting a friend in Reno, NV (10), we booked it home. The fastest route home was aptly nicknamed the “loneliest road in America” US Highway 50. The ride felt bittersweet – coming to the end of being out there on the road with the two loves of my life in our little the memories we made with our baby and can only hope the experiences seeped into her soul and will give her wonderment and thirst for adventure for the rest of her life.

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When the scenic byway veers away from the coast, you will be on a stretch called “Redwood Highway” (6) old giants will instill a deeper respect for nature than you already have. The fact that most of this ancient forest is lost to logging is heartbreaking. We stayed in the state park at Elk Prairie Campground (E). The air is dense and the forest old, and it seemed to be trying its best to reclaim the campground. We hiked a 4-mile loop from camp, which led us up and down hills and into Redwood National Park and walked Lady Bird Johnson Grove Trail (F), an easy walk with placards about the ecology and the history of the area. Plan to stop at a roadside attraction called Confusion Hill (G), and the Drive-Thru Tree (H), a mind-blowing Chandelier Redwood that you can actually drive through.

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THE STORY of how they got from Fulbright fellows to the farm goes back to 1685, the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment.

“That’s when the Western world went off the rails,” Brook said. The Enlightenment – generally understood as a turning point in human reasoning, philosophical ideals such as liberty and fraternity, and the separation of church and state. In this shift toward a humanwhich before then were interwoven with story and myth. We once learned from those stories. They’re brilliant and they’re holistic, and we cut them into parts. We took alchemy, which was once a whole science – and we made it into chemistry, botany, and biology. We created silos of knowledge that didn’t talk with one another, so our spiritual wisdom began to degrade. Alchemy became witchcraft. All of life had once been woven together. It was magical. What we’re really doing here is, we’re weaving it all back together, the sciences and the humanities.”

Hence, three Fulbright applications were denied until leadership on the selection committee changed, and on the fourth year of resubmitting a concept that broke with the norms of academia, ”the new generation of admins got it,” Brook said. “We were proposing a year-long stint in Ghana learning forms of indigenous wisdom as a means of understanding the peoples’ way of life, their architecture, their spirituality, their hope, their worldview.”

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“We were accused of being intellectual thieves,” Brook said. quo, calling attention to how specialization, reductionist thinking, was at the core of the mess our culture was creating.”

ROSE AND BROOK LEVAN started with their hands in the earth. Earthen adobe to be exact. They followed a collegiate art faculty path around the country, teaching ceramics, drawing, freshmen foundations, and graduate-level mentoring at Pomona College, the University of Connecticut, James Madison University, and elsewhere. Fulbright fellows. As potters in academia in the ‘90s, they produced what they call “art for daily life,” – vessels, furniture, and serving pieces – while orchestrating large-scale community projects throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, and Mexico.

“We never set out to be farmers,” Rose said. “When former art colleagues ask, ‘Don’t you miss the studio?’ I reply, ‘Now I work in a 244-acre studio.” To which Brook quickly adds, “This studio extends out to the whole cosmos.”

“There was no such thing as ‘Interdisciplinary Studies’ in those days,” Rose said, explaining how they attempted to bridge this divide by bringing the various disciplines together in proposals to create work that would break down walls between departments.

Before a short stint in the Roaring Fork Valley turned into a 25year residency, their artwork critiqued the culture of the gallerymuseum system and the compartmentalization of academia – in which each science exists in its own department, separated away from math, history, language, philosophy, literature, and art.

Looking back on their journey, you might imagine the seeds of Sustainable Settings waiting beneath the surface, sprouting up in bigger-than-life adobe bread ovens pressed in Braille with in a studio-turned-barnyard captured chicken scratchings, claw prints, feathers, and other debris of living – memorialized in clay, hangings. The living, breathing process became a statement about life – what is real, what is left behind, and what is worthy of our collective attention. What they started out doing was shaping earth, giving it form, expression, life – as a means of critiquing the culture; which is what they’re doing now on the biodynamic community-supported ranch in the Crystal River Valley. The Sustainable CSA, free-range eggs, raw milk shares, medicinal herbs, beyond-organic meat – these are actually beside the point.

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In 1989-90, Rose and Brook lived for almost a year with the Gurunsi people, an agrarian tribe in Ghana, West Africa. “We worked alongside them, participating in their ancient oval in the dirt with their heels, offering kola nuts and tobacco gifts to the ancestors,” Brook said. “NOW, OVER 30 YEARS LATER, I’M BLOWN AWAY WHEN THE WISDOM WE EXPERIENCED THEN WILL COME UP IN WHAT WE’RE DOING HERE TO HEAL THE LAND. I GET CHILLS.” – ROSE LEVAN They learned that the Gurunsi language has no word for “art.” “Their dishes, their pottery, their clothing, and architecture. It wasn’t art. It was an actual prayer. Each one of these things was created in prayer, just like the Lakota and the Utes when they make a teepee or buffalo shirt. It’s a prayer.”

In other words, Rose said, “what matters is the process, not the product. Beauty is good, and beauty is important, but our artwork was a trigger to wake us up, to bring awareness to issues – to all the layers of social, emotional, cultural understanding.” WHEN THEY CAME HOME to the States, their longer signed their work with their names, marking it “ life in general,” in lower case letters – an abdication of artworld ego that shook academic cages. They pushed against the publish or perish mentality –the idea that art should be given a value, signed, hung on the wall. “Academia didn’t quite know what to do with us,” Brook said, but Pomona College in Claremont, CA offered a good next place to put down roots for a while.

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The boundaries of academia no longer held relevance for the LeVans, who raised eyebrows by inviting college kids to their home to share meals. “The academic world wasn’t truly about teaching and learning. It was about climbing this ladder, it was about who you went to bed with and who you ate lunch with, about navigating the system. We weren’t playing that game.” So they went for a Durfee Foundation grant offered with a mission of getting Pomona students, faculty, janitors, and deans an opportunity to design a deeply-immersive study project in China.

The concept: as they paddled into a different region, they would stop, camp, and learn how to make the traditional river craft of the area, experiencing the creative processes that shape the cultures and the people, their economy, mythology, and history. They shot technical rapids in handmade goatskin rafts, which Brook describes as “pure lunacy.”

Few along the Huang He had seen an American, let alone a towheaded child, a xiao gwáiloú meaning “small pale foreign devil,” whereas Rose and Brook were simply gwáiloús, “foreign devils.” The family was cautiously welcomed because traveling with a child was, as Rose puts it, “a totally different experience. They were like, ‘Come on in!’ because we weren’t your average backpacking tourist.” She tells about how Cooper was friendly and with, and one day announced that he was “a Tibetan now.” How?, they wondered, thinking perhaps he had eaten a new dish or made a new friend. “I drank the water,” he announced. “Brook and I looked at each other like, ‘Oh no, here we go.’” They had been careful to drink only water that had been boiled, a caution taken equally seriously by most locals. “It’s just what you do,” Rose said, “and sure enough, within about two days, Cooper went down, but he was ultimately okay.” belief that the way something is made, the consciousness surrounding creation is far more meaningful than the object that exists as the end result. “Process creates tradition, culture, humanity itself,” Brook said, letting Rose complete the thought. “We came to see how our art came through us – it wasn’t me, mine, ours. Art can be an expression of connection. We cannot truly create unless we are in harmony and in balance with all of life.”

The proposal: to travel the Huang He (Yellow River) from the Tibetan Plateau to the Yellow

ALCHEMISTS OF SOIL THEY SOON BECAME involved at the House of Ruth in East L.A., an emergency shelter for battered women and children escaping abuse, a month-long refuge for making choices about how to move forward. “To see them gather the courage to continue and to rebuild their lives was so moving,” Brook said. “It got at the heart of what we learned in Ghana. Making is hope. Making is prayer. Making is creating our reality.” Rose explains, “We didn’t go in and say, ‘We’re going to make art with you.’ We asked the women and children, ‘What do you need to heal yourself? What makes you feel safe?’” The residents came up with ideas like painting rainbow colors on the window bars. Children made potato stamps for dying fabric they later used to reupholster furniture. They pressed handprints on walls at the doorway, so “when someone new came in, they saw these little handprints of the people their age who had been there before, been in their situation, and they knew they were not alone,” Rose said.

“I WAS WALKING BEHIND THEM WATCHING MY SON IN THE DAPPLED SUNLIGHT AS THE TRACTOR CROSSED COLLINS CREEK RIGHT THERE AT ITS CONFLUENCE WITH WOODY CREEK. I HEARD A VOICE. ‘THIS IS THE PLACE.’ I KNEW WHAT WE WERE DOING NEXT.”

“We thought we’d harvest what we could from the school garden, and leave it for the students to experience after we left,” Brook Steindler at Stranahan’s Flying Dog Ranch to get some aged manure for the beds.

“Jesse, being the kind soul that he is, invited Cooper to ride the tractor,” Brook said, describing what would become a transcendent moment.

The LeVans had started gardens almost everywhere they lived. “We just couldn’t help it,” Rose said, explaining how once when teaching in Omaha, NE, they got a truck to dump soil in the alley behind their warehouse studio where they planted on an old railroad bed.

L THE LEVANS RETURNED STATESIDE to a ‘79 Volvo station wagon on blocks in L.A., and six months to spare before leaving on their next Fulbright fellowship for a year in India –with no plans – until Doug Casebeer invited them to do a residency at Anderson Ranch. They’d never been to the Roaring Fork Valley. They arrived in April 1997 and created a collection called North American Legacies, sculptures of everyday objects, such as luggage, vacuum cleaners, and water jugs covered in clay and painted with ancient Native American iconography, modeled to look like artifacts, pushing against the culture of material accumulation and waste they saw in America. These objects would outlive us, remaining on the planet long after becoming no longer useful. “What is the legacy of our lives?” Rose asked. “Is it all the stuff we leave behind?”

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– BROOK LEVAN What they’d do next was not their second Fulbright, not another college faculty gig, not feeding art careers, not chasing tenure. That night, Brook and Rose sat down and wrote a six-page proposal with a one-page budget that set Sustainable Settings in motion. The idea brought together everything they had experienced in Ghana, at the House of Ruth, in China, and throughout their years in classrooms and studios – learning, teaching, using their hands, creating, and building community. But always, from that mid-June moment standing with his boots in the creek – the heart of it wasn’t food. It was cultural change.

This Valley has a way of bringing like-minded cultural creatives together, and they soon met George and Patti Stranahan, who invited the family to squat at the Aspen Community School campus for 6-8 weeks after their Anderson Ranch residency ended. School was out for summer and the small family could camp and work in the pottery studio on the Woody Creek campus. That’s where they found a few raised beds sitting idle that had been built in the 1980s by Jerome Osentowski (founder of the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute).

In other words, “if the point is the prayer, not the product, then the process is a pathway to a deeper connection, and to healing,” Rose said. It’s little wonder that while working with these powerful forms of rebirth, that new life would come, and the family welcomed their second son Shepherd, who was born at home in the small, two-bedroom solar strawbale home that the couple built on the Flying Dog Ranch.

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“WE WERE GOING DOWN THE WRONG ROAD FAST,” Brook said. “By the ‘90s, the oceans were degrading. The forests and ecosystems – our life support systems – were greatly challenged. something that we were creating – rather – the corporations were creating,” Brook said. “Billions of dollars a year could have gone into We were up against the best business plan ever. Steal from nature. It’s the free bank. Right? They’ve been robbing the bank from our kids and future generations to make this unprecedented wealth. To question it – that was, and still is, considered un-American. If you’re going up against that, you’re radical.”

“It’s not just about sustainable food, it’s sustainable livelihood. Food, shelter, clothing, energy, building – it’s really about our relationships,” Brook said, explaining how it would involve “researching and working in an exemplary way, building green buildings, using renewable energy, exploring farming practices that are about building up, instead of breaking down, renewing instead of extracting. By creating a setting where a sustainable livelihood could be practiced, we would provide an example – and a living means for teaching through the process.”

Within a few days, Brook sat on a boulder in Woody Creek with a forever anonymous angel donor. He described how this project would “upend the culture, challenging us to see our food systems through a whole new lens, profoundly changing our relationship with the soil itself, guiding us to live holistically in harmony with the earth. The angel got it, saying ‘We all need to do that. How much do you need?’”

THE GOAL: was no process. Nothing prescribed, anyhow – no formulaic never set out to be farmers. gut health. Shamans and dousers say they feel the clear, spiritual energy of the land, a sense that the old karma of the place has shifted, even that Mount Sopris herself – often said to be locked by the Utes during their forced evacuation – has now reopened. But they’ve got measurable proof as well. Seven years of soil tests performed by USDA-NRCS and an independent third party, Ward Laboratories, show steadily increasing soil biomass levels (i.e., more life and fertility). Numbers demonstrate community engagement, from 120 shareholders in the raw dairy operation to 25-40 seasonal members of the CSA, plus 25,000 heads of garlic sold to Whole Foods each fall, not counting the daily dropins for nearly everything that you can grow, harvest, and preserve at high-altitude. Thousands (from both near and far) have attended workshops – on everything from top-bar beekeeping, to wild fermentation, to rotational intensive grazing, to making Biodynamic preps, and saving seeds.

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The Sustainable curriculum engaged Aspen Community School (ASC) students in collecting chicken eggs, which meant understanding varieties of breeds and means of conscious poultry husbandry. Planting allowed them to teach about botany – germination, fertility, water, life – crossing silos into math, history, language, and art. A Stone Soup fundraiser brought the students through the whole process, where every part of the meal was a teachable moment –from planting, growing, and harvesting the vegetables, down to the ASC was founded to create outside-the-box thinkers. People who question the paradigm, or as Rose puts it, “thinking thinkers who the broader culture by exploring means of creating sustainability. Although the school was the family’s community, the place where became clear that the Sustainable concept was bigger than the that created a 188-point checklist for seeking the next home for Sustainable Settings. They spent a year exploring locations from perfect combination of elements on a parcel with senior water

THE LAND WAS PART of the original Thompson homestead, the energy of a fraught relationship with the Ute tribe. Although the Thompson family is said to have gotten along well with the Utes, they bore witness to the eventual disenfranchisement of the Native tribe from their ancestral homeland, which originally spanned the Western Slope almost to Wyoming, into eastern Utah, south to the San Juans, and included the Roaring Fork and Crystal Valleys. In addition to a sense of spiritual disconnect, the land had been ranched with conventional pesticides and herbicides, mostly neglected and fallow, irrigated merely for growing hay in alignment with Colorado’s “use it or lose it’ water rights ethos. “The soil was in pretty rough shape,” Brook says.

BROOK IS FREQUENTLY ASKED TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCES ABOUT THE TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED ON THE RANCH. HE’S TOUTED AS AN EXPERT IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. “AND I TELL THEM TO STRIKE ALL THAT ‘EXPERT’ SHIT AND WRITE, ‘HE’S PERFECTLY UNQUALIFIED TO DO WHAT HE DOES EVERY DAY!” HE SAYS, WHICH EXPLAINS HIS EMAIL SIGNATURE, MAESTRO DI NIENTE “MASTER OF NOTHING.” Their sons Cooper and Shepherd grew up on the ranch, and ranch kids work. They planted, tended, and harvested vegetables. They raised livestock, participating in respectful kills where the animals were blessed ceremonially with gratitude. They learned young how to slaughter and process cows, pigs, and chickens from nose or beak to tail, wasting nothing. Cooper felt drawn to the culinary world. He started rolling sushi professionally at age 15, and now works in the Valley as a private chef. Shepherd works in IT and at Whole Foods. Sustainable upbringing. “I wouldn’t sugar coat it and say they loved every minute of growing up on the ranch, because it’s hard work,” Rose said, noting that their sons still show up for haying season and whenever the ranch needs more hands. Brook adds, “I always tell them – whatever you do, do it really well.”

So how did they do it? How did they heal the land? “We changed our relationship with the life on the land,” Brook said. “This brought about greater health and harmony and balance. It woke us up to what our jobs are as stewards. We serve with our will and our effort. By going about our work with optimum harmony and balance, we can heal. You work out of love and gratitude, acknowledging, asking. Like this – ’Hello, pasture. Hello microbes, fungi, protozoa, earthworms, all of life. ‘You say, ‘I see you and I know you see me, and let’s work together.’ I’m oversimplifying it to say that we’re out here collaborating with all of the life of this place.” As Rose explains it, “We return what we take. It’s a regenerative, restorative relationship. It’s ALL about Onrelationships.”apractical level, when you drive up the gravel road to the farm buildings, you notice a few things right away. For one thing, the cows have horns. In conventional industrial dairy, horns are removed to prevent injury to the rancher or other cows, a hazard of keeping large animals in close quarters. At Sustainable, cows keep their horns because old world wisdom tells us that their horns are sensory organs, helping the cow to perceive its body in relation to other forces around it. What happens to a being when its sense of relationship with the other is stripped away?

“WE DON’T HAVE POINTS OF ENTRY into otherness that a lot of other cultures do,” Brook explains, calling for a new paradigm, perhaps a new Age of Enlightenment. “Because science is the new God. Science is our current imagination.”

Calves drink their mother’s milk for four months or so until she’s ready to kick them off. Industry separates moms and calves in a day or two. “When the relationship is severed, it changes the quality of the milk and the meat,” Rose said. “By honoring all of life in this way, we created a relationship that began to show. The At Sustainable, there are no weeds. Well, there’s plenty of thistle –it’s just not a “weed.” “Every plant sequesters different things out of the soil, adding something, taking something, so you can look across the land and go, ‘Oh Japanese knotweed tells me there’s not enough calcium in the soil.’” Brook said, “Nature doesn’t like bare ground. So often what we call weeds are pioneering species, moving in where they are needed. Thistles are brilliant in how they anchor the earth so it doesn’t erode. We don’t need to destroy them, we need to thank them for doing their job.”

Plants on the ranch get to go to seed. Like cows keeping their horns, all living beings are allowed to reach their full expression. Brook explains, “Fullest expression means peak vitality, peak nutrients. This provides fertile ground for the roots of our “Weimmuno-competence.”becamethecustodians, the guardians of this place. We made a deal with all of the life here, from the creatures to the invisible elementals. And you don’t piss off the elementals,” Brook said. “They’ll cling to you. They’ll go with you to your the way through your next three incarnations. So you don’t lie to them. You make a promise. And you honor your promise.”

Like many homeowners and landowners here, the organization is land rich, cash poor. Selling and moving elsewhere would allow the Sustainable vision to be endowed, so the movement can be economically stable for generations into the future.

So – how might the elementals feel about the For Sale by Owner sign that was hammered into the ground this June? Did the lifeforce of the place respond the way many locals did when they learned the list price, starting at $24 million, increasing weekly until sold? “Somebody said, ‘You’re divorcing that land,’” Brook shares. “They don’t get our level of commitment. We’ve asked permission to leave, and all of the life here said, ‘Go! Go heal another place. That’s your mission.’ That’s our work,” he said, explaining, in a nutshell, that their work here is complete.

“The crisis we face is global and it’s reaching a critical turning point. The earth, the mothership – our ultimate support system –is in deep crisis,” Brook said. “The shift in consciousness needed for changing the culture is something we can experience. It’s what we’ve been working on all these years. What we’ve learned about living in a relationship with all of life. It’s time for us to take it beyond this community. It’s way bigger than us, way bigger than one place.”

“People have asked if we’re selling so we can retire,” Rose said. “While retirement sounds really nice, what we’re preparing for is the next level, which is far from retirement.”

“People talk about being ‘woke’ – what we’ve done for the past quarter century is wake people in this community up to the possibility that there’s the potential for a future that’s better than the one that’s being painted out there,” Brook said. “If you’re an organic farmer today, you’re radical. If you’re providing your own food, creating your own fertility – actually co-creating your fertility, you’re going up against the grain of big money, big pharma, big chemical, big ag. You’re going up against the whole big push that destroyed the small family farm. Our sign out front has gotten your attention, right? It’s time that we all wake up to the importance of our relationships with living soil.”

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MOUNTAIN PARENT BACK-TO-SCHOOL 2022 I didn’t try to capture what it was like hearing elk bugling on top of Independence Pass during Outdoor Ed, because how does someone capture that kind of beauty in words? I didn’t try to explain how often my teachers would explain a math problem (thanks, Mark), or to learn about the economy (thanks, Alexandra), or to take the powder turns on Trainers Ridge on a Friday afternoon ski day (thanks, Adam). I couldn’t choose just one thing, so here goes: ACDS changed my life. When my parents asked, “Do you want to go to Aspen Country Day?” I said “Yes!” And since then I’ve tried to say yes to everything, which is easy to do at a school like this. Yes to new ideas. Yes to opportunities. Yes to working together and respecting others’ opinions. Yes to doing the hard work and having people around to celebrate your successes, big and small. I love that I know almost every kid on campus and every teacher knows me by name, and I can ask someone for help, and they’ll always say yes.

In 2021, my dad and I drove to a walking site. It was the rainforest. The morning started with clear weather and it smelled kinda funny because there was mud and lots of dark, light leaves, and dead leaves all around us, on branches, bushes, and on the ground. After that, it became dark because it was going to rain. We hid under one of the trees and it was raining a lot. It took one hour for the rain to “Are you sure this will help us?” I asked him before he built the tent and he nodded. He brought some snacks to keep us good. It became night and noises of the rainforest reminded me of Alexa the robot making noises of the rainforest that help me and my dad sleep. The morning arrived and when I woke up I heard a monkey climbing the trees. I went to see him and then I got out. I saw the “Hello!” The monkey exclaimed in joy. “HOW CAN YOU SPEAK?!” I shouted in confusion.

BRADY BEAZLEY Grade Teacher:8 Stacy Reed (970) PreK,Independent925-1909SchoolKindergartenGrades1-8COUNTRYASPENDAYSCHOOL ACDS

Carbondale is the perfect setting for a nice day around town or large community events; such as Mountain Fair. Carbondale’s size and creative vibe are what make it so unique and treasurable. The town is littered with various wide open parks, shaded by a few large trees, making it perfect for a spring picnic. Not only does Carbondale have perfect opportunities for a day of relaxation, but it’s littered with tons of small business, all of them local. You can buy pottery, paintings, animal supplies and even chocolate all from local businesses. Alongside Carbondale’s parks and businesses, there is no shortage in great schools. There are a total of six schools, elementary, middle, and high spread across the small town; as well as branches of the Colorado Mountain College. Schools like CMS, CRES, RFHS, and Ross provide ample social opportunities while CCS or CRMS are smaller and present opportunities for one-on-one learning with teachers.

One thing I like about Crystal River Elementary School is the teachers make the learning fun and exciting for all different writing a story about owls. My teacher said that we were going to write a whole story and we were going to start that day. I was so scared. I thought it was going to be NO fun. But my story was awesome and most importantly, the teachers made it fun by letting us see funny pictures of owls and playing fun games. So my answer to what makes my school so awesome is that everyone there makes it fun and exciting.”

MAEVE STONE Grade Teacher:3 Tessa Angelo CARBONDALECOMMUNITYSCHOOL (970) Publicly963-9647Funded Charter CCS (970) Roaring384-5700ForkSchool District Grades 5-8CARBONDALEMIDDLESCHOOL CMS CRYSTALELEMENTARYRIVERSCHOOL (970) Roaring384-5620ForkSchool District PreK, K, Grades 1-4 CRES MP AUTUMN 2022

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46 BACK TO SCHOOL ELEMENTARYSOPRISSCHOOL SES (970) Roaring384-5400ForkSchool District ST.CATHOLICSTEPHENSCHOOL SSCS (970) Religious945-7746School TWO COMMUNITYRIVERSSCHOOL TRES (970) Publicly384-5200Funded Charter CHARTERMARBLESCHOOL MCS (970) Gunnison963-9550School District Daily Bus Service from Carbondale CCB CORNERSTONECHRISTIANBASALT (970) Roaring(970)GradesPre-K,Independent927-9106SchoolKindergarten1-9384-5450ForkSchool District PreK,GradesKindergarten1-4 GSES GLENWOODELEMENTARYSPRINGSSCHOOL

LA ASTRONAUTA ELLEN ¿ Sabias que … Ellen Ochoa fue la primera Latin en el espacio? Ellen es una ciudada activa. Una razón es que Ellen estudio mucho ý se graduó con su doctado en Stanford ý toda su clase. Yo se cómo se grado. Porque lo lei en el libro. ELLEN THE ASTRONAUT She is an active citizen. One reason is that Ellen studied hard and graduated with her Ph.D. from Stanford, and also class. I know how she graduated. Because I read it in a book.

ORSON MORRIS Grade Teacher:5 Kirsten Frazee

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KYLEE BAIR Grade Teacher:7 Cassandra Irving Colorado, winter is cold. Spring is warm. Summer is hot. Fall is cool. But I love all of them. So let’s go through them. Winter, cold as I said, and can get freezing. No green in sight, just icy blue everywhere. The pond is frozen deep but just slightly not enough to skate. With snow falling on the golf course, it’s a perfect sledding hill! Me and my friends grab our sleds and put on our snow gear and head down to the hill and and green appears everywhere. But this year, I don’t think it melted as fast as it should. Anyway, it is beautiful. Birds sing,

How differently do people react to social and medical epidemics? Social epidemics are ideas and behaviors that spread quickly and they infect people like it’s a virus. Some stated that when behaviors and ideas spread, they spread much quicker than many viruses, but medical epidemics spread slower because people don’t go out when they are sick. Medical epidemics are diseases that spread from one person to another. People respond differently to social and or medical epidemics; some people react out of fear, some people react out of happiness, and some people react by doing what other people are doing. When solving social and medical epidemics, character and mindset play a large role.

ADALYN BLANKENSHIP Grade Teacher:2 Mirka Bensch GRADES

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DIANA IBARRA ALCALA Grade Teacher:3 Kaylen Otis ODE TO ZEUS Zeus, the all-powerful with mighty thunder bolts, so no one can defeat you. Powerful, proud of your position in the throne of Olympus. You keep your word, honest leader full of discernment, very clever. Show me your strength. You pull up mountains! Your thunderbolts bring action. How could we survive without you? Zeus, you lead us well, you are all. Your gods are the only thing we rely on.

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PAT AND SPIKY

Pat sat on the shelf in the pet store on the corner of River Street. A couple days ago, he had been brought into the pet store with many other pets. One day, he got bought for a young man’s little boy. One night, he was playing in the woods with the little boy. But when it got late the little boy was called in for dinner. And Pat was forgotten. That night, Pat heard some noises. And walked tord (toward) it. Soon he saw the source of the crying. It was a little porky pine (porcupine). What’s the matter? asked Pat. Hi, said the porky pine. Well, I’m sort of lost, said the porky pine. Oh! Well, I’ve seen a porky pine That’s them! said the porky pine. Can you give me directions? Sure! said Pat. Just go through the orchard, past the big oak tree, then you’ll be there. Okay! said the porky pine, already running towards the orchard. By the way, I’m Spiky! The next day, the boy’s father came and found Pat. The End.

THE FORTUNE WOOKIE

Last night, I was reading a book called the Secret of the Fortune Wookie, the third book in the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series. Before I say anything else, I want to tell you what it's about. There are these seventh graders and they used to solve problems by asking a kid named puppet what to do. Then Dwight gets kicked out of the school. Later, a girl named Sara shows up with a kirigami Chewbacca. It gives people advice and answers to their questions. So the book gave me an idea to make my own Fortune Wookie. This morning, I started it, but I don't think it's going to be First, you ask the person what Star Wars movie is their favorite. If they haven't seen Star Wars, say, "Tell me a number." Then you ask them to tell you a word. So if you need any advice or have a question, ask me and the Fortune Wookie!

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Ross Montessori School Teacher: Mirka Bensch

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Wuns tur wasa pawaner and he livd in the wudz... Once there was a pioneer and he lived in the woods. And he loved

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Asillnesses.youknow, the population of the world is getting larger every day. 178,000 people die each day, but around 385,000 babies are born each day. That’s more than twice the amount of deaths! Just one hundred years ago the population of the world was around 1.8 billion people. Today, there are around 7.9 billion people in the world. And as our population has grown, each person’s environmental impact has grown too. Such as, more humans equals the need for more manufacturing, which equals the problems of pollution, in the form of ocean plastic and greenhouse gases. Marchand Middle School Teacher: Elizabeth Busch

For my passion project I wanted to investigate problems on earth. My passion goes a long way, from world problems to individual problems of life threatening

ELLA KLINGELHEBER

Jackie Robinson’s number 42 has been retired since Jackie played baseball. This means that no other baseball player has had the number 42 as their number. Now that’s an honor! Jackie Robinson is an incredibly talented and famous baseball player who also broke the color barrier in major league player to play in the majors. There are a whole bunch of factors that made Jackie successful, but it was his athletic ability and the people that supported him that made the most impact on his success.

THE GRAY HERON I feel warm. I’m cramped in a small space. I have been in my egg for about 27 days. I try to stretch my little wings and I hear a loud CRACK. A bright beam of light falls on my long beak. I blink in surprise. I pop my head out of the hole in my pale blue egg. I see my father brothers and sisters that have not hatched yet. It is spring. It has been 54 days since I hatched. I‘m almost ready brother and I are the two out of my parents’ six eggs that have survived. My other siblings starved after they hatched. I look over at the 152 nests in our colony. I live in a colony of about 500 other birds like me! Our colony has a few hundred pairs. I look down at the ground below. It’s so high up!

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Jackie’s ability to play baseball was certainly a big factor for his success and his determination and passion helped him not just throw down his mitt and give up. For example, on page 29 of Promises to Keep by Sharon Robinson it says, “Dad was prepared athletically. He had the support of a loving woman and a steadfast mother. He’d matured over the years. He had his faith. But would he hold back his anger for the sake of the mission?”

ZIZI LEVINE Carbondale

Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk To Water and the article “The ‘Lost Girls’ of Sudan” (by Ishbel Matheson) shows how Park has used or altered history in her novel. Park’s novel and the article by Matheson both describe how women in that time in Sudan were seen and treated as less than the men. However, Park leaves out some important things about the inequities of women.

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AN Nationalism:INSTINCTthe principle that a group of people are united by connotation of this word can mean uniting a country and bringing it together. In our society, we have nationalized over the global pandemic of COVID-19 and have supported Ukraine. But what if you used this to exclude a group and make them a common enemy? This principle led to 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of other innocent peoples’ lives being taken during the Holocaust.

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THE LOST GIRLS OF SUDAN “Why not the girls?” That was a question frequently thought of by the lost girls of Sudan in many refugee camps after many of the lost boys were

A Long Walk To Water and “The ‘Lost Girls’ of Sudan” both show the inequities of women in Sudan. For example, they both talk about how the girls have to walk a very far amount just to get water. Matheson writes about how Grace Anyieth, a girl in the Kakuma refugee camp has many chores including, “Cooking, cleaning, washing, fetching water from the distant stand-pipe, looking after her guardian’s children.” Matheson also mentions how, “In other words, she is an unpaid servant.” Park writes about how the girls in Nya’s village have to walk many miles to get to a take her half the morning if she didn’t stop on the way.”

Maus 1, a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman, describes his father, Vladek, and his survival through the Holocaust and the struggles he lived through. Similarly, Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel illustrates Elie as a young boy surviving through the different concentration camps. Night explains a story of how a young boy survives and raises himself through the Holocaust. Because Maus 1 and Night offer necessary perspectives of survivors, it is important to analyze how humans have an immeasurable will to survive and how this connects to the Holocaust.

As more Asian immigrants entered the social sphere of the United States, white American leaders pitted minorities against each other. This was brought forth with the development of the Model Minority myth in the 1960s, representing Asian Americans through a stereotypical lens embodying the qualities of being: hardworking, obedient, and smart. One can see a recurring theme in which Asian people are portrayed in the media as stereotypically docile, smart and nerdy. Many of these Asian characters in the media were played by white actors in “yellowface” misrepresenting Asian individuals and further dehumanizing them. Such patterns of racial discrimination and violence are carried through into modern day America, accelerated by current political atmosopheres. The same ideology of the Model Minority Myth and view of Asian women as objects prevails in the 21st century which was TSHERING of

THE OBJECTIFICATION OF ASIAN AMERICANS

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Dating back to 1875, the United States enacted its long reign of terror against Asian immigrants. The Page Act of 1875 barred the immigration of Asian women while labeling them as prostitutes. Following that, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited all immigration of Chinese Manylaborers.during this time period held nativist beliefs which considered Asian immigrants to be evil and subhuman. Penny-press journalism of the 1900s introduced the concept of Yellow Peril, the idea that all Asian immigrants were malicious with the intent of taking over America while destroying white civilization. hostile conditions for Japanese American individuals. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 suspended the civil rights of 120,000 Japanese Americans: forcing them to mass evacuate and relocating them in concentration camps. 77,000 of these internees were lawful U.S citizens that had their lives disrupted and businesses shut down. The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed spouses of U.S. military personnel to enter the United States after WWII, insinuating that Asian women were submissive, docile objects to be conquered by white men. The Korean War of 1950 and the countries. These GIs utilized Asian sex workers in order to view of Asian women.

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ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET (970) 925-7175 ASFB Ballet Instruction in Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs. Age 4+ After school – schedules vary by location and class level. The organization’s annual production of The Nutcracker is a beloved part of the holiday season –and a performance opportunity for ASFB dancers.

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ASPEN RECREATION DEPARTMENT (970) 544-4100 Year-round support for working parents and their children. Every day is an adventure, with outdoor play, lots of movement, plus arts, crafts, and games. After School Club – weekdays until 5:30 PM. School Break Camps – 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION (970) Monthly925-8245TotShabbat Programs Songs and stories for children from birth-age 5 with their families. Weekly Hebrew School in Aspen

BEANSTALK TUTORING (720) 924-1518 Run by a former classroom teacher, Beanstalk offers in-person, private tutoring for students in the Aspen area. 50-Minute Math or Literacy sessions. Grades K-2.

Starting Sept. 6, every Tuesday at 3:30 PM Weekly Hebrew School in Carbondale Starting Sept. 8, every Thursday at 3:30 PM

ASPEN YOUTH CENTER (970) 544-4130 Free drop-in programming for kids entering grade 4 and older. At the Aspen Recreation Center. Kids can hang out in a welcoming environment with games, arts, and crafts, as well as open-ended and structured activities.

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL (970) 205-5055 Grades 2+ AfterWorks Beginning Strings. Violin, viola, or cello lessons. Weekly group classes after-school at seven locations throughout the Valley. Instrument and tuition scholarships are available. Commitment from October through early May.

CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER (970) 963-2529 After school – once weekly for 5-week sessions. Sign up now for Oct., Nov., and Dec. Handbuilding – ages 5+ Wheel throwing – ages 9+

CARBONDALE RECREATION (970) 510-1290 Indoor and outdoor youth programming for elementary and middle school ages. Youth Pickleball. Mondays & Wednesdays. 4:00 PM. Ages 8-12. Starting Sept. 12. Kids can learn the hottest new sport on Carbondale’s state-of-the-art dedicated Pickleball courts.

ROCK & ROLL ACADEMY (970) After-School.379-968590-minute weekly sessions. 13-week commitment – Sept. through Dec. Grades 4-12. Musical experience not required – just a wish to learn. The RRA curriculum begins and ends with student choice, so youth can explore music and self-expression on their own terms, picking genres, songs, and instruments. The semester culminates in a public concert.

MONKEY HOUSE (970) 340-4988 Kids Club / Team. Tues. and/or Thurs. 4:00 – 6:00 PM (ages 8-13) 6:00 – 8:00 PM (ages 12-17) engaging those who compete at a national level. Sign your ‘tween or teen up for a monthlong commitment. Class enrollment includes unlimited drop-ins throughout the month.

SNOWMASS VILLAGE RECREATION (970) School922-2240BreakCamps 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Plus, the heated, salt-water pool is open yearround for families to enjoy after-school and on check out the skate park, which is always free of charge, and offers terrain for every skill level.

PITKIN COUNTY LIBRARY (970) 429-1900 All programming is free. Weekly toddler and pre-K Storytimes, plus After-School Wednesdays. Visit the Maker Space. Also, check out the StoryWalk on the Hunter Creek Trail. Look for signposts with children’s books, telling a story one stop at a time.

THEATRE ASPEN (530) 481-6260 The Drowsy Chaperone – fall musical for grades 7-12. A loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. After School rehearsals.

Auditions: September 6-7; 4:30-7:30 PM; Performances: November 10-13.

WALDORF SCHOOL ON THE ROARING FORK (970) 963-1960 Parent-Child classes offer joyful, nurturing opportunities for caregivers and children to explore Waldorf Education and meet other new families. Birth to age 3+.

EQUINEWINDWALKERSTHERAPYCENTER (970) Therapeutic963-2909Riding Sessions. All ages and abilities. Private or small-group lessons. A disability does not have to limit a person from riding horses. In fact, because horseback riding rhythmically moves the rider’s body in a manner similar to a human gait, riders with physical disabilities often muscle strength. Horseback riding also provides recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities to enjoy the outdoors.

MAKE PLANS. Find updates on the latest class offerings, with details about times, MOUNTAINPARENT.COM

GARFIELD COUNTY LIBRARIES (970) 625-4270 Weekly parent-child storytime hours in all 6 Branch locations. In English and in Spanish. Plus study/meeting rooms, access to WiFi, laptops by reservation, and free arts programming for adults and children announced monthly.

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