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<strong>Help for Hyla</strong>
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 Hyla Saltz is a beloved friend and community member who has spent decades pouring care, creativity, and heart into the people around her. Until very recently, Hyla was still working, creating, and dreaming about the future. Anyone who knows Hyla knows how naturally she makes people feel seen, uplifted, and, in her own way, fabulous. Over the past year, Hyla has faced a relentless battle with illness. At one point, she was on a ventilator, fighting for her life, and she came back from that with incredible resilience. Most recently, Hyla was hospitalized again and underwent major surgery, spending two months in the hospital. Since then, one leg has been left extremely weak, and she has spent months in a nursing home and rehabilitation center, working hard to learn how to walk again. Even now, while fragile and under 100 pounds, Hyla’s spirit remains strong as she fights to get her life back. 
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 Right now, Hyla is in inpatient rehabilitation receiving the physical therapy she needs, but her health insurance has run out. She is being forced to choose between using her Social Security to remain in rehab or leaving before she is truly ready. Her doctors and therapist believe that additional inpatient rehabilitation days could make all the difference in her recovery, independence, and quality of life. Donations will go directly toward helping Hyla stay in the care she needs, support her ongoing care, and help with her transition home when she is strong enough. Rita is asking everyone who knows Hyla, and even those who do not, to please give if they can. Toward Hyla’s continued recovery, your support would be a lifesaver. Please reach out through this campaign to help Hyla Saltz get back to doing what she does best. No gift is too small, and every act of kindness matters. Please donate and share this page. If you are a physical therapist in the Seattle community and are willing to donate sessions, that support could also mean so much to Hyla’s recovery. Thank you.

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<div>It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we have to share the unexpected passing of Margret Louise Robinson on Tuesday, July 30th, 2024. Margret was a daughter, sister, and mother. Margaret had five children, Russell, Carol (deceased), Lonnie, Michael (deceased) and Cordnell Robinson.
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<div><strong>With all of the emotional pain and stress that death brings, it can also bring financial burdens. We would like to raise money for Margret’s family and children to help with funeral expenses.</strong>
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<div>It is in times of sadness and loss when people can come together to help one another make it through. Any support you may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Please keep Margret’s family and children in your thoughts and prayers.
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<div>Thank you in advance for your loving kindness.
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<div><strong>Please Help My Daughter Paige Bradford Montes (A single parent) Beat Colon Cancer.</strong> Please! My name is Susan Phegley. I lost a son in 1993 and then my daughter in a car accident in 2006. I will NOT lose my first born child. We are going to win this battle but need your help. I updated her progress at the end from surgery yesterday.
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<div>Tuesday, June 25th my daughter Paige went for a colonoscopy and they found a 10-centimeter tumor in her colon. It’s confirmed that it is colon cancer. Paige is my first born and is beautiful inside and out. Paige lights up any room she enters and everyone is blessed to know her. Paige is a single parent and a server at a fine dining restaurant and will have no financial help as far as any benefits from her job and won’t be able to work.
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<div><strong>I am asking to please donate for medical bills as well as living expenses so she won’t have the burden of losing everything while she fights for her life.</strong> Surgery to remove the tumor is July 8th and I am leaving work unpaid to care for her after the surgery and be by her side in Fishers, IN. It’s hard to ask for help, but I would be so, so grateful for any donation so we can solely focus on her getting better. The tumor crossed 3 folds of the colon and will be cut out and reattached back together. Thank you so much for hearing our story and any help would be so greatly appreciated. God bless! Update! Paige had 8” of her colon removed and reattached. The tumor and lymph nodes around it was removed and no colonoscopy bag was needed. There was 4 incisions made and a 6 week recovery. Next week we find out what stage cancer from the tumor being tested. The higher the number 1 through 4 the more aggressive the cancer and a chance micro cancer cells can be inside and that’s when they will decide if chemo is needed. I am so thankful the Dr. said the first step of surgery was a success. ☺️Please continue to pray and share. Thankyou for your donations because medical bills and living expenses don’t care If you have cancer and this will help her so she won’t fall behind on bills before she can get back to work. We appreciate all of you so much for your generosity, prayers and love.
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Stephanie Phillips

<div>I did not come to southeastern Colorado looking for an easy life. I came to build something real.
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<div>I left Chicago and came west to farm because I believed in the possibility of creating something lasting from the land—something honest, productive, and rooted in community. I started in hemp, and like so many farmers, I learned quickly that hard work does not protect you from everything agriculture can throw at you. Historic early freezes hit. Crops failed. Years of labor and investment were set back. Then a car accident created another major disruption just as I was fighting to keep the farm moving forward.
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<div>A lot of people would have stopped there.
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<div>I am not stopping.
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<div>I am pivoting into a pasture-raised egg operation because it is a smart, sustainable next chapter for this farm and a business that can serve both the market and the community well. This is not a last-minute idea. It is a practical, values-driven plan built around humane farming, environmental stewardship, strong local demand, and a clear path to revenue.
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<div>This farm sits in a strategic part of southeastern Colorado, with access to the I-25 corridor from Pueblo to Denver. That matters. It means access to wholesale buyers, farmers markets, and communities that need better food options. It also means operating in a part of the state with real advantages: less local competition, proximity to underserved customers, and a geography that can reduce some of the pressures seen in more concentrated poultry regions. There is a real opening here to build something strong, efficient, and needed.
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<div>The vision is simple: raise hens the right way, produce high-quality eggs, and build a local food business that does not reserve the best products only for people with the highest incomes.
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<div>Pasture-raised is not just a label. It means birds with meaningful access to pasture, sunlight, movement, and a more natural life than what is typical in industrial systems. It means a farming model centered on animal welfare, soil health, and food quality. It also means building a system that works with the land instead of extracting from it.
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<div>That is a key part of this mission.
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<div>This farm is being designed as an environmentally sustainable operation. In addition to the laying flock, we plan to use other livestock—especially sheep and limited cattle—as part of a managed grazing system to help maintain fields naturally. Grazing can do work that many farms rely on fossil-fuel-powered equipment to do, reducing tractor passes, lowering fuel use, cycling nutrients back into the soil, and supporting healthier pasture over time. The goal is not just to produce eggs. It is to build a farm system that is more regenerative, more efficient, and more responsible in how it uses land, energy, and resources.
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<div>For consumers who care about humane treatment, environmental sustainability, and nutrient-dense food, that matters. For communities that are too often offered the cheapest and lowest-quality food available, it matters even more.
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<div>Too many neighborhoods in Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and the Denver metro area know what it is like to have limited access to fresh, high-quality food. Too often, quality becomes a luxury good. My goal is to challenge that equation. This business is designed so that premium wholesale and farmers market pricing helps subsidize more affordable eggs for low-income communities, SNAP recipients, and food desert neighborhoods. In other words: whole-food quality at everyday prices. Good food should not be reserved for people with the most money.
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<div>This is also about more than eggs.
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<div>Black land ownership in America has been under pressure for generations. Black farmers have lost staggering amounts of land through discrimination, lack of access to capital, heirs’ property issues, and systems that have made it harder to keep farms alive across generations. When a Black-owned farm survives, adapts, and grows, that matters beyond one family. It means preserving stewardship, economic independence, and the possibility of passing something tangible forward. It means refusing to let another piece of Black agricultural ownership disappear quietly.
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<div>That is part of why this moment matters so much.
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<div>Like many small farmers, I have pursued grant opportunities and support programs that were supposed to help farms like mine build capacity and survive. But after being selected for opportunities and counting on that support, funds have been frozen, restricted, or pulled back as federal priorities shifted. Programs historically associated with outreach and support for underserved farmers, including the 2501 framework, have been weakened in practice by funding freezes, new conditions on USDA money, and the rollback of long-standing equity-focused policies.
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<div>That changes the stakes. It means community-backed funding is not supplemental. It is essential.
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<div>This fundraiser is about giving this farm the working capital and infrastructure needed to move from survival mode into stable production. Your support will help fund the laying flock itself, along with the feed and operating capital needed to get through the full four-month pre-production period before a single egg is sold, and through the first year of operation. It will help pay for the core infrastructure a pasture-raised system requires: housing, fencing, and equipment. It will also help fund a refrigerated delivery truck so these eggs can reliably reach wholesale customers, farmers markets, and underserved communities along the I-25 corridor.
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<div>That truck is not an extra. It is what turns a farm into a functioning local food business. It is what allows me to serve independent bakeries, breakfast diners, neighborhood restaurants, and market customers while building a distribution system that can grow over time.
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<div>And this is only the beginning.
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<div>The long-term vision includes fresh produce, beekeeping, and partnerships with neighboring southeastern Colorado farmers so that more local goods can reach consumers directly. I also plan to open the farm to the public through events and agricultural education, especially for young people from urban communities who may never otherwise get the chance to see where food comes from, learn how farming works, or imagine themselves in agriculture, food science, or land stewardship.
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<div>If you give to this campaign, you are not helping me hold onto something that is failing. You are helping me build something viable, community-rooted, and future-facing. You are helping launch a business that can feed people well, steward land responsibly, expand access to better food, and protect a Black-owned farm at a time when too many are still being lost.
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<div>I am doing the work. I am making the pivot. I am building the model.
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<div>This campaign helps make it real.
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<div>If you care about Black land ownership, humane farming, environmental sustainability, and giving more communities access to healthier food, please support this campaign and share it. Every contribution helps move this farm closer to full production. Every share helps widen the circle of people who believe this work is worth backing.
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<div>This is about more than eggs.
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<div>It is about keeping land, building something sustainable, and proving that good food, ethical farming, environmental stewardship, and community impact can grow from the same ground.
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