Made in Colorado.

• Author: Peterson, Eric

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HAND TRUCK 360 AND ATTACH IT STRAP

Judy Kochevar and inventor Richard Cortese started The Hand Truck Company in 2014 to bring a dose of much-needed innovation to hand trucks. Improving on the status quo, the company's first product, the Hand Truck 360, "is multi-directional,"she says. "It's actually steerable."She worked with in-state contract manufacturers and marketed the resulting product to warehouses and other commercial operations before moving into a broader market with the Attachit Strap this year. The strap brings stability to ungainly loads on hand trucks, says Kochevar. "The safety factor is really big with us,"she explains. "There are so many millions of hand trucks. Hopefully, they'll find out about the Attachit Strap."

$475 retail; Attachit Strap: $69.95 Pueblo

www.thehandtruckcompany.com

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K-SAUCE HOT SAUCES

Laurie and Steve Adams started making hot sauce with theirthen-10-year-old son, Keenan, in 2005. "He was a really picky eater and then he discovered Frank's Red Hot and Tabasco," says Laurie of Keenan, who's now 21. Soon he was ordering "ridiculously hot hot sauces from all over the world." The hobby turned from an annual gift--Steve's culinary background helped guide the recipes--into a business in 2013, when the operation moved from home to a commercial kitchen in Denver. With offerings ranging from K1 (habanero) to K5 (chipotle), K-Sauce is launching its sixth sauce this summer: the salsa brava-inspired K6.

$6--$7 per five-ounce bottle Centennial

www.k-sauce.com

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THE MOORE FAMILY FOLK ART

An art teacher introduced Alan Moore to folk art in high school, and he later gravitated to bottlecaps and cans as his favored media and starting selling his work in 2011. Working in construction management by day, he now collaborates with his wife and five kids sorting cans and caps, creating artworks ranging from octopi to bears to Colorado-flag trout, and teaching classes at Show of Hands...