Spring 2011

The TCI Lane Ranch Greenhouse thrived in it's first Winter, helping greenhouse manager Terrie Swerdlove to grow salad greens and vegetables for the Aspen Skiing Company's on-mountain restaurant, "Sneaky's".  Terrie is transitioning the greenhouse into Summer, during which she plans to supply CSA shares to a number of local families, with tomatoes and summer vegetables ripening now, in mid-April.  She has also begun to plant a few outdoor beds, and cover them with cloches.

TCI Lane Ranch Greenhouse in Action - Winter 2010 - 2011

While development of the roads, utilities and solar home lots is anticipated in the near future, the TCI Lane Ranch Greenhouse is complete, and is happily growing salad greens and vegetables for the Aspen Skiing Company's mountain restaurants.  Terry Swerdlove is the greenhouse manager, and she is busy planting, growing and harvesting these veggies all Winter, while preparing the Aquaponics tanks for schools of Tilapia fish.  The shelves above the tanks will be planted with micro-greens, using the fish waste from the tanks as their primary nutrients, while their roots clean the water for the fish.

Bon apetit', Skiers!