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-Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association Bruce Talbott, co-owner/operator of Talbott’s Mountain Gold, a Palisade orchard producing peaches and wine grapes, has been elected president of the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers board of directors. The vacancy arose when long-time president, Robert Sakata, Sakata Farms, Brighton, was appointed to the Colorado Water Conservation Board and stepped down as CFVGA president. Talbott has been a member of the CFVGA board since the first slate of board members was seated in February 2015 and served a term as secretary. “I am honored by my ...

The impacts to this year’s apricot crop are a bit more up in the air, but a freeze Tuesday night appears to have generally spared local peach growers. Bruce Talbott of Talbott Farms in Palisade said that fruit trees are only now breaking out of their winter dormancy, helping protect them from the impacts of Tuesday night’s freeze. “Everything except apricots is still very durable. We can probably take 10 degrees (as a low) and still have a peach crop and we weren’t there. We weren’t close to there,” he said. The official Grand Junction low temperature Wednesday m...

for The Fence Post For thrifty homemakers, many fruits and vegetables would soon come at too dear a cost — the widespread desperation of the Great Depression was just beginning when the Good Housekeeping Institute published its 1930 cookbook, “Meals Tested, Tasted and Approved.” Jaunty recipes on the now-yellowed, food-stained pages — which still lay between the red and white striped cover — must have become mid-20th century treats. Others prepared with down-to-earth basic ingredients likely graced tables more frequently. Cauliflower Timbales, for example. But before discovering tha...