Growing with the Joe. Joe Cocker grows some big tomatoes — with a little help from his friends, the best friend being a greenhouse next to his castle in Crawford.
The green-thumbed rocker is currently featured on the cover of Zone 4, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the trials and tribs of the gardeners in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana.
Dan Spurr and his wife, Andra, worked in boating publications when they moved from the East Coast to Bozeman, Mont., and started Zone 4. The mag has been around for two years, and it’s getting healthier by the issue, says Dan. The Cocker cover is getting some Colorado attention.
It was Andra who saw the need, says Dan. “There was very little help out there for people trying to grow in a difficult, short growing season,” he says. “We have high elevation, cool nights, drought, poor soil, hail.”
