FARM TOURS
Mountain Harvest Festival Farm Tours
Saturday, September 24th, 10am-2pm
On Saturday September 24th, take some time to learn about our local farms by participating in our self-guided Farm Tours throughout the North Fork Valley. Farms will be open to visitors from 10am to 2pm – stop on by and visit our local farmers during that time! Some of the farms will also have their local produce for sale during the tour, so bring along your shopping basket to support our local farmers! All are welcome, come prepared to be outside!
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
Down Home Farm
Lauren Kenton & Daniel Larcker
17348 Farmers Mine Rd
Paonia, CO 81428
561.308.2370
Down Home Farm is a farrow to finish heritage hog farm offering all things pig. Custom butcher, fresh cuts, roasters, smoked bacon and sausage, rendered lard, variety of dry aged meats and salami, soap, salve, and piglets. These pigs are raised with best practices, love, sunshine and respect, given seasonal access to forage, local fruit and dairy. Feed is supplemented with non-GMO Colorado grown barley, wheat, alfalfa, milo. Free of corn, soy, antibiotics and hormones.
Elevation Herbal Tea
Shannon Ullmann
34691 Jacobs Rd.
PO Box 954
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.
Fields of Glory Organic Farm
Claire & Steve Schaue
38803 Coburn Rd
Paonia, CO 81428
775.527.1775
Fields of Glory Organic Farm is a USDA certified organic farm, currently growing fragrant, oil and terpene rich varieties of CBD, CBG, and CBDV. Come on out for our “u-pick” hemp flower day during Mountain Harvest Festival.
The Living Farm
Tom, Lynn & Jenny Gillespie
39776 Green Tractor Road
Paonia, CO 81428
thelivingfarm1938@gmail.com
thelivingfarm.org
The Living Farm has sustainably grown salad greens, tomatoes, strawberries, vegetables, pasture-raised beef, lamb, pork and chicken. Chicken feed, compost. Dairy sheep breed stock, wool, felted slippers, vests, dog beds. Year long CSA. Farm market is open Wednesday – Saturday 11-5. Come on out and meet the animals during Mountain Harvest Festival!
Perched at 6,200 feet above sea level, Osito Farms is a family-owned orchard and vineyard produces certified organic peaches, cherries, apples, and grapes renowned for their intensely sweet flavor. We follow wildlife- and bee-safe protocols, and are proud to be one of the few commercial orchards relying on native bees for pollination. Open Friday, Saturday & Sunday during Mountain Harvest Festival from 9am – 5pm.
Rock n’ Roots Farm
Candice & Jon Orlando
16451 Grange Rd.
Paonia, CO 81428
303.827.5434
Rock ‘n Roots Farm is a Certified Naturally Grown family farm using regenerative practices to grow specialty vegetables and medicinal herbs, including hemp. 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 is family owned and operated. Located on 16 acres just outside of Paonia at 6250 Ft. on Garvin Mesa with stunning views of the North Fork Valley and the West Elk Wilderness Range. Originally a fruit orchard, Stanton Farms now features 20 different cultivars of lavender, including seven delectable culinary varieties and many other mints and perennial herbs. With just over 1500 lavender plants we provide plenty of nectar and pollen to our resident bees who produce the most delicious lavender infused raw honey.
For almost 50 years our farm has practiced natural and organic growing practices. We use steam distillation on-site to extract and create our high quality aromatic lavender oils and hydrosols. All of our growing methods and products are embraced with the highest integrity and care. Please shop online, schedule a farm tour, and check out all of our upcoming outdoor (appropriately distanced) events including our “Music in the Lavender” series on our website.
*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 Road,
Hotchkiss, CO 81429
970.623.5015
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
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! HOURS: 9am to 5pm Daily
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
