Nurturing a healthy environment for all life
An organic farm creates a long-term beneficial and sustainable environment that is healthier for all life.
- We employ practices and use products that are approved for organic farming to enrich the soil, manage water, and control pests and disease.
- As Palisade only gets 10 inches of rain annually, our water comes from the Colorado River. We use it efficiently by irrigating with microjets.
- Solar panels help us further reduce our footprint.
It is rewarding to us to feed people and help keep our rivers clean and birds, fish, and beneficial insects like bees and ladybugs safe.
Organic certification is a long-term commitment
Getting an organic certification from the USDA (United States Dept. of Agriculture) is a detailed process that takes years. To be certified, we are inspected and audited each year by the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) as an accredited certifier for the USDA certification for raising and selling fruits and vegetables. We do this so you can verify our organic growing practice, but we would still practice growing organically even without a certification process because we believe it is a better option for the environment, customers and us as the farmers.
No conventional herbicides or pesticides are used in our orchards – ever. We love and need the bees that pollinate our fruit trees. Great Horned Owlets inhabit our trees. We refer to them as “organic pest control.”
