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The Longmont Leader accepts op-eds for publication from community members, business leaders and public officials on local topics. Do you have something you would like to share about the community? Is there a topic that you are particularly passionate about? Let us know. 

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Get Growing: Turn your food scraps into garden gold

Get Growing: Turn your food scraps into garden gold

Composting via a traditional compost pile really isn’t hard to do, and the best way to compost is to dig some holes straight into the ground.
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Ask the Introvert: For innies, there's power in your comfort zone

Ask the Introvert: For innies, there's power in your comfort zone

" ... Working from your place of strength makes you a valuable player in the game of life. Even if you’re playing on a team of one."
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Get Growing: Set your mind to it and watch your knowledge — and urban farm — grow

Get Growing: Set your mind to it and watch your knowledge — and urban farm — grow

If you’re the type of person who thinks you can’t possibly be good at something because you weren’t born with a specific innate ability, I invite you to challenge this mindset.
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Longmont Local: Mystic Sisters, a shop born of love

Longmont Local: Mystic Sisters, a shop born of love

Mystic Sisters is a new retail shop that showcases metaphysical gifts, art and services.
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Ask the Introvert: Taking life cues from our TV remote controls

Ask the Introvert: Taking life cues from our TV remote controls

Play, pause, fast forward and stop all relevant for introverts.
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Get Growing: It's time to pick your seeds

Get Growing: It's time to pick your seeds

Even though it’s the middle of the winter, spring is slowly sneaking up on us and the first of the seeds — peppers— need to be started in February. 
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Colorful characters from Longmont’s history: Mary Ann Harris-Dickens

Colorful characters from Longmont’s history: Mary Ann Harris-Dickens

The series will include wives and mothers, businesspeople, a soldier, an activist, and even an outlaw or two. Together they show the determination, strength, business skill, and sometimes a lack of principles, that made the city what it is today.
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Longmont Local: Cavegirl Coffee focuses on the basics

Longmont Local:  Cavegirl Coffee focuses on the basics

This local coffee shop focuses on clean eating.
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Ask the Introvert: Mark your calendars for these holidays perfect for the quiet-natured

Ask the Introvert: Mark your calendars for these holidays perfect for the quiet-natured

Twelve holidays for your innie soul
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Get Growing: Bountiful urban farm starts from the ground up

Get Growing: Bountiful urban farm starts from the ground up

In Longmont, we largely have a type of clay soil that tends to be very hard and compact. For plants and vegetables to grow properly, you want this soil to be loose, not hard.
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