Salida Daily Digest Monday, October 19, 2026
Ty's Take
Three decades is a long time to keep a nonprofit afloat in a valley where the economy swings with the seasons and the price of everything keeps climbing. Colorado Farm to Table has done it by staying planted in something real, something this county knows in its bones: the connection between the land that feeds us and the people who work it. Their new executive director steps into a job that matters more now than it probably did thirty years ago, when the idea of local food networks felt like idealism. These days it feels like survival, or at least like resistance to the idea that everything of value here gets bought up and remade for somebody else's profit. The work continues, which is the whole point.
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The Mountain Mail
Colorado Farm to Table celebrates 30 years, new ED
Colorado Farm to Table in Salida marked its 30th year of operation while welcoming new Executive Director Kelly Church, who aims to rebuild the nonprofit's capacity after a drought-shortened season that yielded 8,500 pounds of donated produce instead of the planned 100,000 pounds. The organization,...
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