Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

Sustainable logging at its most ridiculous.

Travel doesn’t have to be expensive–or even scary. Here’s how I saw Manhattan for the grand sum of ten dollars. (Featuring The Navigator!)

Catherine Gockley, owner of Fire Mountain Farm and Apiary, didn’t start out as a farmer. She didn’t even start out wanting to be a farmer. But once she sets her mind to things, they get done: having decided to become a grower later in life, she spent ten years learning and working to reach her [...]

It started out innocently enough: it was a sunny Friday afternoon, and everybody at Zephyros was ready for a break from work. On Fridays, most of Paonia heads to Revolution Brewing. Daphne and all the interns (except Siwar, who was too young and therefore tasked with cooking dinner) hopped in the Subaru to go have [...]

This is a story of different attitudes toward nature. We’ve all got our own way of looking at the natural world: some of us don’t understand it completely, some of us think we understand it all too well. Some work to preserve it, some work to eradicate it, and then there are the NARPs.
Utah Phillips [...]

Yes, that’s right: it’s time to talk about irrigation! WHOO exciting! IRRIGATION YEAH!
Okay, calm down all yous. It may not be the most fascinating topic, but it’s more interesting than you think. And it’s necessary: in places like Paonia, which gets less than 20 inches of rain a year, it’s next to impossible to farm [...]

Meet the White-Lined Sphinx Moth, also known as the Hummingbird Moth. Why? Because it looks exactly like a gol-durn hummingbird, but with a strangely insectile head. These things are flitting about all over the place here, inserting their proboscii into various flora, buzzing slightly, and not caring at all if you get right up close [...]

When you’re a voluntourist, buying the wrong boots can land you in some very uncomfortable spots.