David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (17 de Noviembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language podcasts, which are produced by Brett Wilson.

David Hernandez

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language podcasts, which are produced by Brett Wilson.

David Hernandez

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language podcasts, which are produced by Brett Wilson.

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (27 de Octubre)

Each week, David Hernandez provides a Spanish language recap of the Estes Valley Voice for members of our community.  Let us know how we’re doing? Do you have ideas for stories about stories we nee to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language podcasts, which are produced by Brett Wilson.

The Estes Valley Voice would like to find a podcast sponsor to support this work. If you, your business, or organization is interested, please contact our newsroom at [email protected] or 970-586-1888.

David Hernandez

Listen to the Estes Valley Voice podcast presented by David Hernandez, who recaps the latest community news in Spanish each week.

If you have stories that you think the Estes Valley Voice needs to report, please reach out to us at our newsdesk or email David at [email protected]. We want to hear from our readers and listeners.

Listen to the Estes Valley Voice podcast presented by David Hernandez, who recaps the latest community news in Spanish each week.

If you have stories that you think the Estes Valley Voice needs to report, please reach out to us at our newsdesk or email David at [email protected]. We want to hear from our readers and listeners.

La Voz del Valle de Estes 5 Octubre

Historia de David Hernandez

Escucha el último pódcast de noticias de Estes Valley Voice en español con David Hernández.

Listen to the latest Estes Valley Voice news podcast in Spanish with David Hernandez

Story by Elisabeth Sherwin

The garden is a metaphor for many things in Prof. Camille Dungy’s life.

In 2013, it represented the beginning of a guerrilla war with her Homeowners Association.

Spoiler: She won.

When she and her family moved from Oakland, Calif., to Fort Collins in 2013, they moved into an established, traditional suburban neighborhood with well-maintained grass lawns.

Not good.

Dungy wanted a prairie garden to attract butterflies and bees. She wanted a garden that could thrive in the natural environment of Northern Colorado. She wanted a drought-tolerant garden with lots of native plants. And a pesticide-free garden.

In hindsight, all these things seem so reasonable, so desirable. The HOA should have given her a medal.

Instead, in the early years, a woman walked around the neighborhood with a ruler, measuring too-tall grass and weedy vegetation to report violators to the board.

What was a rebel gardener to do?

“They did not love my garden,” Dungy told the audience earlier this month at the Estes Valley Library.

“But my first patch was small,” she said. She and her husband, Ray, had to bring in quantities of soil, railroad ties, and river rocks for landscaping, which could not be done overnight.

The idea was to start small and reclaim sections of the yard as time and the seasons allowed.

As the years went by, neighbors admired their work. Now, she said, everyone in the neighborhood uses railroad ties for landscaping, and many neighbors trade native plants.

“I was right,” she said. “I was going to move slow so (the HOA) could catch up with me.”

Dungy writes about her garden in her 2023 book, “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden,” which is about gardening, yes, and much more. She is also an essayist, poet, and professor of English at Colorado State University.

She writes about Black history and recent politics, and again, her garden becomes a metaphor for a heterogeneous environment.

And, oh by the way, the HOA eliminated its rule against “non-standard landscaping.”

The Estes Valley Voice wants to help bridge the gap and lower the height of the silos between the English and Spanish-speaking communities in the Estes Valley by making the news we publish accessible to non-native English speakers whose first language is Spanish. According to data from the 2023 American Community Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau, it is estimated that 12% of the residents of the Estes Valley speak Spanish at home.

Toward that end, this summer, we installed an English-Spanish translator toggle button on our website. And this week, the Estes Valley Voice is introducing a Spanish-language news podcast, which will review the week’s top news stories with podcast host David Hernandez.

The podcast will be accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language podcasts, which are produced by Brett Wilson.

The Estes Valley Voice is seeking a podcast sponsor to support this work. If you, your business, or organization is interested, please contact our newsroom at [email protected] or 970-586-1888.