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agriculture
30 Porch Notes tagged “agriculture,” from counties across Colorado.
Local rules - Lincoln County
In unincorporated Lincoln County, the land is zoned for agriculture and lot size matters
Lincoln County's unincorporated land is treated as agricultural, and parcels smaller than the conforming lot size can need a development permit before anyone builds.
Read note ->Water and land - Alamosa County
Buying irrigated land near Alamosa: the water is its own deal
Farm and ranch parcels in the San Luis Valley often depend on irrigation water that is governed separately from the land, and that water can carry its own rights, costs, and limits.
Read note ->History and culture - Delta County
Why the North Fork Valley Eats So Well
Around Paonia, a tight cluster of organic orchards, farms, and high-altitude vineyards turns a short growing season into one of Colorado's richest farm-to-table valleys.
Read note ->Water and land - Phillips County
A big irrigation well is not the same as the home's water in Phillips County
Farm and ranch parcels in Phillips County may carry a large irrigation well that is permitted and limited separately from the household water supply.
Read note ->Water and land - Kit Carson County
Center-pivot circles here are watered from the Ogallala, and that supply is finite
The green irrigation circles across Kit Carson County draw from the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer, a groundwater supply that recharges slowly.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Dearfield was a Black agricultural colony in Weld County
Dearfield began in 1910 as an African American agricultural colony in eastern Weld County, built on land, dryland farming, and self-reliance.
Read note ->Water and land - Prowers County
Around Lamar, ditch water and tap water are two different things
Farm and rural parcels in the Lower Arkansas Valley often carry irrigation ditch shares that are separate from the household water supply.
Read note ->Local rules - Weld County
Noxious weeds are a property-owner homework item in Weld County
In Weld County, noxious weeds are a legal category with landowner compliance duties, not just a yard or pasture nuisance.
Read note ->Local rules - Sedgwick County
Sedgwick County's right-to-farm notice is practical rural homework
The building permit packet's right-to-farm notice warns of normal rural impacts: dust, odor, equipment, gravel roads, and slower public services.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Weld agriculture is a water story first
Weld farming rose from irrigation, including the No. 3 ditch off the Cache la Poudre, called the first US ditch built to grow food.
Read note ->History and culture - Jefferson County
Arvada's flour mill keeps the farm-town layer visible
The Arvada Flour Mill gives Olde Town Arvada a durable link to wheat, rail access, and the farm economy that shaped the early town.
Read note ->Local rules - Morgan County
Morgan County noxious weeds are a local rule, not just yardwork
Noxious weeds in Morgan County fall under state law and two pest control districts, so rural land deserves a vegetation look, not just a house tour.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Weld County's seal names its old identity in pictures
Weld County's official seal uses wheat, a sugar beet, a cow, an oil lamp, and a cog to point at agriculture, education, and industry.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City's history page starts before the industrial map
Commerce City's story runs from Indigenous homelands through prairie settlement, farming, and industry to the city on Denver's north side.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
The Weld County Fair grew from a call for a real county fair
The modern Weld County Fair traces to a 1918 push for a steady agricultural event, distinct from the Greeley Stampede.
Read note ->History and culture - Rio Grande County
This is potato country, and a research center sits at its center
Rio Grande County is part of the high-altitude San Luis Valley potato region, supported by Colorado State University's research center and Extension office in the valley.
Read note ->Water and land - Washington County
The Akron Station That Taught the Plains to Hold Its Rain
Just outside Akron, a USDA research station has spent more than a century figuring out how to farm on 14 to 18 inches of rain a year.
Read note ->Water and land - Montrose County
The Gunnison Tunnel: why the Montrose valley is farmland
A 5.8-mile tunnel bored under Vernal Mesa from 1905 to 1909 still carries Gunnison River water that turns the dry Uncompahgre Valley into Montrose's farm country.
Read note ->History and culture - Dolores County
Dove Creek: the county seat that calls itself the Pinto Bean Capital
Dove Creek is the seat of Dolores County and grew up around dryland bean and grain farming, which is why it bills itself as the Pinto Bean Capital of the World.
Read note ->History and culture - Larimer County
The Farm at Lee Martinez keeps farm chores in the city story
A city-run farm in Lee Martinez Park lets Fort Collins families meet animals and stay close to the county's farming roots.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
The Littleton Museum keeps two working pioneer farms
The Littleton Museum runs an 1860s and an 1890s living history farm where staff in period dress work the land, showing how settlement changed once the railroad arrived.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Why Brighton sits where it does: railroads, the river, and sugar beets
Brighton, the Adams County seat, grew up where a railroad met South Platte farmland, and sugar-beet and truck farming shaped the county for generations.
Read note ->History and culture - Pueblo County
The Pueblo Chile is a point of local pride and its own festival
The Pueblo chile grown on the farms around the city anchors the annual Chile & Frijoles Festival downtown, a community event run by the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce.
Read note ->History and culture - San Miguel County
Norwood and Wright's Mesa: the ranching side of San Miguel County
On the county's drier west end, Norwood sits on Wright's Mesa, a ranching and farming area very different from the resort towns around Telluride.
Read note ->History and culture - Garfield County
Carbondale's Potato Day celebrates the valley's farming roots
Carbondale holds an annual Potato Day, a long-running community event that points back to the area's history of potato farming and ranching.
Read note ->History and culture - Logan County
Sugar beets and the Great Western factory shaped Logan County farming
A sugar beet factory opened in Sterling in the early 1900s and came under the Great Western Sugar Company, and the beet industry helped shape farming and growth across Logan County.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
The Adams County Fair and county museum keep the farm story alive
The Adams County Fair and the Adams County Museum at Riverdale Regional Park carry the county's farming and ranching heritage into the present.
Read note ->Water and land - Mesa County
Why peaches thrive at Palisade: a warm river-valley pocket
The orchards around Palisade sit in a warm, sheltered pocket of the Grand Valley along the Colorado River, a combination of climate and soil that supports Colorado's stone-fruit growing.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
The state bug lab in Palisade
Palisade is home to a state-run insectary that raises beneficial insects to fight pests, a working facility born from a 1940s threat to the valley's orchards.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Ignacio once shipped Depression-era turkeys east by rail
A historic Ignacio building recalls a Depression-era turkey-packing cooperative that shipped birds raised on local farms east by rail, part of La Plata County's farming and ranching backbone.
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