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• Urban herbs

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Starting small with an herb garden by Amanda Moutinho If a full-fledged garden sounds like too much work, consider scaling back and springing for an herb garden. Find a sunny windowsill, or plant them alongside a bigger plant and enjoy fresh herbs instead of store-bought ones. The list of herbs to grow includes basil, thyme, [...]

• No lawn? No problem

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  How to start your own apartment garden by Amanda Moutinho Locally grown food just got closer. If you crave the flavor of home-grown carrots or cucumbers, the taste can be yours, even if you don’t have a backyard. You can grow a garden just as delicious (if not as plentiful), with no more space than [...]

• Digging in to organic gardening

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Ask four experts about how to make a garden grow, and you’ll get four different pieces of advice. What the experts have to say about cultivating healthy soil and when and where to water varies, but then, so do backyards. Familiarize yourself first with the term “microclimate.” Your backyard has one, and the amount of shade it gets, the soil in it and the nearest water sources will all play into what you can grow and how to successfully grow it. But for a novice gardener, a few tips from the pros can be helpful just getting off the ground — or rather, getting your seeds to come up through it.
  Here, a few local gardening experts share their knowledge on everything from soil to sun, watering to pests, and what plants a first-time gardener can have most success with.

• CU engineering students take second at Eco-marathon

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Last week, Boulder Weekly covered the story of the five young men from the University of Colorado who were taking their odd-looking car to compete at the Shell Eco-marathon in Houston. The team’s goal was to have their car, F-CAT, achieve 1,500 miles on one tank of gas. Now the results are in: The CU team surpassed their goal and won second place in their category.

• Fiber problems

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Now that Boulder residents approved ballot measures to move the city towards exploring municipalizing the electric utility, the future of Xcel’s Smart Grid infrastructure investments lays in limbo.

• Environmental engineers

  Thursday, March 29th, 2012

  A three-wheeled, alien vehicle that can be lifted with relative ease by three or four young men is carrying the hopes of five engineering students at the University of Colorado.

• Act legalizes cottage chefs

  Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

  Farmers have a new revenue stream to tap into this year, and as a result, their customers will have some things to look forward to as well, like homemade jams, baked goods, dehydrated soup mixes and fruit butters.

• Spring has sprung, and it’s a hot one

  Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

  Today is officially the first day of spring, but the weather this past week would indicate otherwise. Boulderites were wandering around in shorts, grilling in the backyard and sunbathing last week, along with a large portion of Americans. Last week there were record-setting highs and warm lows throughout the country. Chicago saw four consecutive days [...]

• Green Building Guild starts serving the state

  Friday, March 16th, 2012

  The Boulder Green Building Guild is changing its name and mission. The Guild is now the Colorado Green Building Guild, with a new mission of helping the entire state in its endeavor to go green. Don’t worry though Boulderites, the Guild won’t forget about you. Sharing is caring, right? “The Guild is in a process [...]

• Boulder celebrates its love affair with bicycles

  Thursday, March 15th, 2012

  by Hadley Vandiver Boulder’s bicycle culture is thriving and lively, and we habitually capture and celebrate it in visual form and as a group. Compare the single man polishing the chrome bumper of his car to the workshop of Community Cycles, which has now graduated 1,000 Earn-a- Bikers from its community workshop. There’s a shared [...]