Around Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, the legend is well-known: An eccentric old man living on Basalt Mountain had grown bananas at 7,200 feet. And from a patch of rocky hillside, perched ...
Few people know Basalt Mountain like Jerome Osentowski, who has lived on the sun-drenched southern slopes for 43 years. He has created an oasis there with five greenhouses, more than 200 varieties of ...