This post, written by David Lynch, comes from the relatively new Guidestone blog. He writes:
As a recent resident farmer to the central Colorado mountain community, it has become painfully clear the challenges of preserving the region’s agricultural resources for local food production. How quickly have valuable agricultural lands given way to sprawling development and high-end [...]

Today’s post comes to us as an opinion essay submitted by CBV reader and local farmer, Eric Belsey:
What About Fear?
Where do you fall on the spectrum that runs from optimism to pessimism? What time of day is it? Can you yoke optimism and pessimism to your wagon and ride off into the sunset?
Take for [...]

In his blog, Let Your Life Speak, Buena Vista resident Dustin Urban writes a poignant letter to Senator Salazar urging him not to hand over a blank check to the big 3.
“I am the proud owner of a Japanese Toyota Prius. I am 24 with a baby on the way, and I am committed to [...]

It’s hard to say which upcoming vote on Tuesday is the more suspenseful for the residents of Buena Vista: Obama vs. McCain, or the more locally disputed, Meadows annexation vs. no Meadows annexation. Certainly all four scenarios carry with them the potential of having tremendous impacts on the lives of us here in BV.

I’ve been doing some thinking recently about what it takes to make a community, be it a church group, a business, a town or a nation, function and prosper. The concept that keeps coming to mind is the necessity for everyone involved in the community to have as much information from as many sources [...]

As the saga of the Cottonwood Meadows annexation issue continues, it will now truly be in the hands of the community to decide the fate of the project. According to The Chaffee County Times, the Buena Vista Town Trustees unanimously voted last Tuesday to place the question of this issue to a vote of [...]

Alex T writes, “Summer is chaos in Buena Vista.  Wonderful, beautiful chaos.  Warm weather and long days conspire to extend hike and bike and kayak time well into the late evening.  Folks are passing through on vacation which means barbecues, Whipple trail walks, extra visits to the hot springs and busy times for local business’.  [...]

Local BV Blogger, Joel B. writes:
“Today’s organic farming is entirely non-holistic. It is as far from being ‘holistic’ as any conventional farming. By definition these are mutually exclusive elements, as organic/conventional is a fabrication of linear thinking, the other requires the ability to process enormous amounts of information and complexity found in both natural and [...]