Fresher is better
Berries from market adorn dessert
By Pam Mellskog • © 2009 Longmont Times-Call
ERIE — Penny Peterson launched the Erie farmers market this May and its Lafayette counterpart last July without a slogan.
Were she to coin one, though, it would be something like “Power to the backyard farmer.”
For years, Peterson has owned and operated Amandla Gardens, a Boulder County landscape maintenance business.
But she began transitioning out of horticulture and into agriculture three years ago when she bought an Erie home on a 4-acre lot.
Her backyard now teems with an encyclopedic variety of plants.
Hollyhocks and snapdragons grow beside rows of bok choy and tomatoes. Medicinal and culinary herbs sprout next to apple, plum, cherry, peach and Asian pear trees.
“People that grow things have a passion for it. And some people have a fever. I have a fever. It’s my art, ” Peterson, 53, said.
The patchwork plot brings her vision for local food and flower production to life.
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