 Hi, I'm Sean and welcome to This is Longmont. Colorado Parks and Wildlife put on the St. Vrain experience at St. Vrain State Park. This free public event was all about fishing. We learned about the fish hatchery program. There were angling lessons, fly fishing demonstrations and various kids activities. They were even given away free fishing poles. Senior Ranger Sean of Colorado Parks and Wildlife tells us more. My name is Sean Dunleavy. I'm the Senior Ranger here at St. Vrain State Park and we're doing our fishing experience today. We did it three years ago and four years ago. Unfortunately we had two years where we weren't doing the event. But now it's back for the third annual and we hope there will be many more. As far as what's going on, we have a couple different partners here. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is pretty well involved. We've got a trailer down this way that's handing out free fishing rods. They've got about 200 free fishing rods and reels they're giving out and doing an angler education there. Right across from me we also have the hatcheries trailer. So that's really cool. The first two years they weren't here. It's a trailer that's got two big tanks in it. It's got a bunch of trout in there and they are telling people about how the hatchery system works and how we stock fish. The next thing I can see over to my side here is Eagle Claw Fishing Tackle. So they're here representing their business and they have a whole bunch of giveaways I think. In the parking lot across from me we've got outdoor buddies. Outdoor buddies is a place that helps people get into the outdoors, has the track wheelchair and other stuff that allows more accessibility for hunting and fishing. The next thing over is St. Brain Anglers Trout Unlimited. They're here today doing casting demonstrations and telling people a lot about fly fishing. Just a demonstration day. You know this is St. Brain State Park fishing days and you'll see the walleye and the bass guys and we're the trout folks here. Also in that same parking lot is the A&S Aquatic Nuisance Species Program and the Aquatic Nuisance Species Program is talking to people about doing clean drain dry on their boats keeping those clean. I'm Travis Beam. I'm the invasive species specialist for the Colorado. So we deal exclusively with aquatic invasive species. So you know as like a kayak fisherman or just a kayaker in general there are things that we do worry about typically like plants especially here at St. Brain. There's an invasive called Eurasian Watermilfoil and so this actually spreads via fragmentation. So it only takes up you know a small section of this to actually start a whole new plant. So if a boat propeller was to go through a mat of this they just created a whole another section of this plant. Kids events going on also. So we've got at 10, 11 and 1 o'clock some kids activities and a kids activity tent and then a big raffle going on today. About 11 45 we'll be doing a raffle for everyone and then another kids raffle just towards the end of the day. So from 9 o'clock this morning until 2 o'clock this afternoon that's what we're doing. We always look forward to April around here as it heralds the opening of the Boulder County Farmers Market here in Longmont. We were there for opening day. Let's check it out. Welcome to this is Longmont. My name is Sean and we are here at St. Brain Cidery. Let's go inside and check it out. How's it going? My name's Dean Landy with St. Brain Cidery. We have been here in Longmont since October 2016. We're one of the only all Colorado Cider tap rooms in Colorado. The unique thing about us I think that makes us kind of stand out is the fact that not only do we serve our own cider but we also serve as many people as we can that produce cider and mead in Colorado. Fast forward 2012 somebody came to me and asked if I'd be interested in opening a cidery and I started doing some research and realized that there was nothing in Boulder County at the time so I thought this is a great opportunity. I love cider and so fast forward 2016 a partner and I decided that hey I've got a building I've got a space let's make some cider and open up the cidery and then started making our own because we didn't have anything at first so started making our own recipes and from there we now have seven core recipes our number one seller is our blackberry botanical which was kind of a isn't off dry I really like dry ciders but I wanted to appeal to all customers and that's how that came about so it's been a great experience. Longmont in general is a great community it's been very open and very I guess just passionate about small businesses and so this is a great spot we have people come in and they love it they haven't tried cider and they're trying to figure out what their palate like and so I carry dry and sweet and kind of let them choose similar to JBF cider has a competition that is held in Michigan and it's called the Glen Cap which is the Great Lakes International Cider and Perry competition since we've opened 2016 well 2017 when we started producing our stuff we've been able to place all of our stuff and the gold is our pink guava which has placed gold I think in the last four years everything has done everything has meddled which means we're obviously doing something right it just gives a little recognition people ask about the metals and I'm sure all these other ciders that I have up here from all over Colorado they have also I'm sure meddled in some of these categories it's just nice that Colorado is starting to get on the scene of show people exactly what kind of ciders are out there here in Colorado finally we heard about this local event put on by the left-hand artist group and we had to check it out left hand artist group is a local nonprofit founded in 2013 if you are an artist looking to promote your art check them out on Facebook or on lefthandartistgroups.org that's a wrap for April's edition of this is long month thank you so much for watching for updates and if you have any story ideas or have a favorite hangout a restaurant you think we should check out comment on our Facebook page or email us at this is long month at gmail.com we'll see you next time on this is long month