Stuff you need to know, 8.7.23

“Hot harvest season begins in New Mexico chile country”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
August 7, 2023

The late summer harvest is at risk because of higher temperatures that increase the spread of certain diseases and limit fruit production. The heat can also threaten the lives of workers that must pick chile by hand.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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