21 Sep Farm Tours
On Saturday September 26th, take some time to Get to Know our Farmers and learn about local agriculture by visiting participating Farms throughout the North Fork Valley. Farms will be open to visitors from 10am to 2pm – please respect our farmers time and only visit during the 4 hour time slot unless otherwise specified in their description.
Our Farmers will give you a brief tour of their agricultural operation and you will have time to visit multiple farms in Paonia and Hotchkiss from 10am to 2pm. Choose the farms you want to visit from the descriptions below and stop by at your leisure!
Farmers will have their farm fresh products for sale during the tours – bring along your shopping basket and support our local farmers!
All are welcome, come prepared to be outside! Please leave your pets at home, these are working farms that cannot accept visiting dogs or other animals!
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2026 Farm Tours
Delicious Orchards
39126 Highway 133, Paonia, CO
970.527.1110
Delicious Orchards, the home of Big B’s Juices and Hard Ciders, and North Fork Cellars, has a beautiful tasting room and farm store with our juices and hard ciders, Colorado wines, great local organic products, and a café serving delicious food made from local ingredients. The camp ground is nestled in the orchard with views of the surrounding mountains, and guests can come by and hand pick organic cherries, pears, peaches, and apples in season. North Fork Cellars and Big B’s Fabulous juices and Hard Ciders are proud to support local sustainable agriculture and land stewardship.
Farm Tours 12pm-2pm
Desert Weyr, LLC
16870 Garvin Mesa Road, Paonia, CO
970.527.3573
Desert Weyr, LLC raises performance recorded grass fed Black Welsh Mountain sheep. We have frozen sheep meat and wool products including yarns and roving for spinning for sale at our farm store. We occasionally have frozen chicken and fresh Jonathan apples from our heirloom orchard planted in 1905.
Open 10am-4pm
Gray Acres Farm
12273 Crawford Rd. Paonia, CO 81428
(970) 778-9512
Jacob and Sharon Gray raise pastured poultry, pastured dairy goats, breeding bucks, and scottish highland cows. We also produce vertically grown strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and low-sugar jams sold locally and through on-farm pickup. Come meet our livestock guardian dog Chewy and tour the farm!
Open 10am-12pm
Holy Terror Farm
42485 Highway 133 Paonia, Colorado
In 2010, Alison Gannett and Jason Trimm quit the grocery store, choosing to homestead all their own food- with exceptions for coffee, chocolate, spices and salt. They raise and preserve everything the old fashioned way – from chickens, pigs, and cows for meat and fats – to nuts, berries, veggies, and grasses. Their 1883 farm, in the lush hidden Terror Creek valley, once provided 2% of all Colorado cherries. Holy Terror Farm is 2.4 miles east of Paonia on Highway 133 on the left/north, halfway between mile marker 11 and 12. If you get to Bowie, you have gone too far.
Open 10am-12pm
Lamborn Mountain Farmstead
42229 Lamborn Mesa Road
Paonia, CO 81428
970-527-5105
Organically and biodynamically grown lavender – fresh and dried bouquets, culinary buds, essential oil, goat milk soap, lotion and more. Highland cattle, sheep and free range chickens to see.
Open 12pm–2pm
Birdstory Nursery
Bart & Rachel Exposito
17440 Farmers Mine Rd
Paonia, CO 81428
505.240.3555
birdstorynursery@gmail.com
birdstorynursery.com
Birdstory Nursery is a small native plant nursery growing plants for habitat, pollinators and restoration. We grow native flowers, shrubs, and trees from seed using organic practices. We also build handmade backyard habitat essentials and make art. Learn how we grow at nature’s pace in DIY greenhouses and check out native bee houses and bee waterers. Stroll through our newly planted demonstration gardens, learn about microhabitats, and leave inspired!
Down Home Farm
Lauren Kenton & Daniel Larcker
17348 Farmers Mine Rd
Paonia, CO 81428
561.308.2370
DownHomeHogs@gmail.com
Down Home Farm is a farrow to finish heritage hog farm offering all things pig. Custom butcher, fresh cuts, smoked bacon, sausage, rendered lard, salami, soap, salve, and piglets. These pigs are raised with best practices, love, sunshine and respect, given seasonal access to forage, fed local barley, fruit and dairy. Free of corn, soy, antibiotics and hormones. For the Saturday Farm Tour there will be meat tastings and special guests Fallen Mountain Winery from Hotchkiss.
Elevation Mountain Grown Herbal Tea
Shannon Ullmann
34691 Jacobs Rd.
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
303.842.2709
Elevation Mountain Grown Herbal Tea farm is a family-owned business, which grows, processes and packages all of the ingredients for delicious herbal teas. Our blends are a celebration of local farmers, great taste, positive health and the inspiring state from which they come. Offering Tea Tastings and U-Pick during the Saturday Farm Tour! Farm Store and U-Pick Open Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 12:30pm featuring berries, herbs, flowers, teas and more!
Osito Farms
Vincent & Tiffany Savarese
11550 3100 Rd.
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
970.872.1051
ositofarms@gmail.com
Osito Farm Stay
ositofarms.com
Perched at 6,200 feet above sea level, Osito Farms is a family-owned, certified organic orchard and vineyard producing peaches, cherries, apples, plums and sweet table grapes. We are Bee Better Certified and are proud to support and rely on native bees for pollination. Our fruit can be purchased at our farmstand during Mountain Harvest Festival – Farmstand Open Daily 7am to 7pm. Real Organic Certified.
Rock n’ Roots Farm
Candice & Jon Orlando
16451 Grange Rd.
Paonia, CO 81428
303.827.5434
rocknrootsfarm.com
info@rocknrootsfarm.com
Rock ‘n Roots Farm is a Certified Naturally Grown family farm using regenerative practices to grow specialty vegetables and medicinal herbs, including hemp to create the highest quality wellness products. We offer a full line of CBD and medicinal herb products crafted from ingredients grown here on the farm.
Stanton Farms
Campbell, Susan & Kori Stanton
41586 Reds Rd.
PO Box 472
Paonia, CO 81428
970.270.7494
hello@stanton-farms.com
stanton-farms.com
Stanton Farms, located on 16 acres on Garvin Mesa outside of Paonia, is family owned and operated and has been utilizing organic growing practices for almost 50 years. With over 1300 lavender plants, Stanton Farms now features 20 different cultivars of lavender, including seven delectable culinary varieties and many other mints and perennial herbs. We use steam distillation on-site to extract and create our high quality aromatic lavender oils and hydrosols with care and integrity.
*Fun Fact: KVNF, Mountain Grown Community Radio, began its inception in a converted garage on our farm Oct. 5, 1979.
Thistle Whistle Farm
Mark Waltermire
10872 3500 Rd
Hotchkiss, CO 81429
970.623.5015
thistlewhistlefarm@gmail.com
Thistle Whistle Farm grows a wide variety of vegetables and herbs, along with flowers, poultry, dairy goats and honey bees. We grow to organic standards and host a variety of educational programs and classes for kids and adults. Our food for sale includes heirloom tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, winter root crops, and a variety of cottage-foods produced products including dried, roasted and fermented peppers.
Western Culture Farmstead
Suanne and David Miller
39883 Mathews Ln.
Paonia, CO 81428
970.417.0213
westernculturefarmstead@gmail.com
westernculturefarmstead.com
Western Culture Farmstead is a USDA licensed goat dairy and creamery. Specializing in high quality, small batch artisan goat cheese. We offer a unique farm tour experience, meet the goats, see where they are milked and the cheese is made. There is a farm store where you can sample and purchase the cheese. We also have a line of all natural, handcrafted goat milk soap and lotion. Definitely worth the visit! Farmstand Open Thursday to Monday 9am to 5pm!
ZenZen Gardens
Cindie Sorensen
12498 3790 Rd
Paonia, CO 81428
970.260.0552
Zenzen Gardens has a Tasting Room featuring Alfred Eames Cellars wines. Come enjoy a glass of wine, sit under the veranda and take in the majestic mountain views of the West Elks. Experience a serene and relaxing atmosphere while enjoying the lush green fields, beautiful flower gardens and the relaxing pond. Come stay on the property in one of our two glamping tents, the original farm house or the recently remodeled bunk house. The venue can be rented for weddings, anniversary, birthday parties and any special events. Enjoy live music on our stunning stage or in our historic barn. We look forward to meeting you! For Mountain Harvest Festival weekend we will be open Thursday: 11-4:00 for wine tastings, 4:30-8:00 For Tapas and Wine; Friday – Sunday: 11-6 for wine tastings.
Orchard Valley Farms & Market
15836 Black Bridge Road,
Paonia, CO
970.527.6838
Located just northeast of Paonia, Colorado visitors can enjoy a true farm experience in a beautiful setting with a friendly atmosphere. The finest gently grown fruit and produce, gourmet foods, heirloom balsamic vinegar and gifts are available in our market and online. We are especially known for our bing cherries and peaches. We are the home of Black Bridge Winery where Pinot Noir, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Riesling grapes thrive. In season, check our website to see what’s ready for picking, or visit our farm market and wine tasting room, situated along the banks of the North Fork of the Gunnison River. We are open daily 10-6 Memorial Weekend through Halloween.
Open 10am-6pm
Small Potatoes Farm
40575 O Road Paonia, CO
970.527.4051
Small Potatoes Farm is a vegetable market farm that nurtures its soils with compost and green manure cover crops. The Farm produces vegetables year round with various season extension methods. By encouraging a diverse ecosystem full of life, the Farm produces healthful and delicious vegetables for its community year round. Small Potatoes celebrates the farm by roasting their fresh vegetables and baking artisan breads.
Open 12pm-2pm
Happy Belly
1978 Harding Road, Paonia
970.309.0510
We are a unique multi-farm CSA that has their own large garden on very fertile ground and also works with five other growers and orchards in the North Fork Valley. This cooperative effort enables us to pack you a diversified box every week from mid-June to October 1. We fill our boxes with vegetables, fruit, greens and herbs. Included each week are recipes and tips for preservation. We have been in business for twelve years now. We love feeding people.
Open 10am-12pm
