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.