Locavores root, root, root for fall harvest

Mother Nature just hates to be taken for granted. She pitched a fit at the beginning of the growing season, shredding the fields of Northern Colorado with a couple of serious hailstorms. Then autumn had barely emerged all golden from the equinox when she sends in the snow. Wither the harvest?

“I just got an e-mail from Karen McManus at Wolf Moon Farms (in Wellington),´ said Jason Shaeffer, owner, chef and champion potato peeler at Chimney Park restaurant in Windsor, early last week. “They got 10 inches of snow but still have leeks, beets, celery and celery root, kale, bunching onions…