Newsletter – January 15, 2025

Astro-tourism resort coming to the San Luis Valley to capitalize on region’s starry dark sky

By Shanna Lewis, CPR

There are those who aim to send rocketships to the stars, but in Southern Colorado an entrepreneur has an earthbound plan to connect with the heavens – by combining stargazing and lodging. 

The first guest villa designed for astro-tourism and built from hempcrete, a lightweight material made of the inner core of the hemp plant and mixed with construction materials, is nearly finished at the Kosmos Resort in the San Luis Valley, not far from Great Sand Dunes National Park. The telescope-equipped lodging is the brainchild of former Miami and now Alamosa County businessman Gamal Jadue Zalaquett.

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EVENTS

KEHE CON – The Kenya Hemp Conference
January 20, 2025, Nairobi, Kenya

11th Annual NoCo Hemp Expo – We go to ELEVEN
April 10-12, 2025, Estes Park, Colorado

ICBC Berlin
April 29-30, 2025, Berlin, Germany

Experience Hemp Berlin and the 22nd Annual EIHA Conference
June 11-13, 2025, Berlin, Germany

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