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Agricultural tool library takes shape

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Local farmers may soon be able to rent and share tools, as local governments are working on an agricultural equipment library.

Six farms have committed to joining a new tool lending library. It will include heavy equipment like a tractor with attachments like a rotary plow and a potato harvester. Officials say that high costs for equipment discourage would-be farmers, even as the local food movement grows in the Roaring Fork Valley.

There will be facilities at three public open space properties: Cozy Point Ranch, Lazy Glen and Glassier open spaces. Pitkin County’s Open Space and Trails board has dedicated $50,000 to the project.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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