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The Farm at Lee Martinez keeps farm chores in the city story

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Fort Collins has no shortage of polished civic spaces, but The Farm at Lee Martinez Park keeps a plainer thread in view. Since 1985 it has offered family visits and hands-on classes, with horses, cows, chickens, sheep, and baby goats on hand to meet. In a county built on agriculture, that kind of everyday contact does more than any plaque could.

The setting is half the point. Lee Martinez Park sits close to the Poudre River and Old Town, so this is not a farm experience tucked far out in the countryside where you have to drive to find it. It sits right inside the city. A child can stand in a barn a few minutes from downtown and feel the connection between animals, food, the work that ties them together, and the local history that made all of it ordinary here for so long.

Admission, hours, programs, and seasonal details shift through the year, so the city page is the place to confirm before you go. The larger role holds steady regardless. A small, working piece of Larimer County’s agricultural memory stays alive in the middle of a growing town, close enough that families can wander over without making a day of it.

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