Grill: Open Tue-Sun 11am-8:30pm (Closed Mon), Market: Open Daily 9am-7pm
Beet Street Farm is a family farm located in the beautiful Animas Valley in Durango, CO. They are a vegetable farm providing high quality produce for our community through local grocery stores, markets, restaurants, and through their CSA program. They focus on growing a large diversity of nutritious, chemical-free produce utilizing cover crops, crop rotation, and water conservation practices to improve the soil, manage pests, and increase biodiversity. Healthy land, happy employees, and good food is their mission.
Long Table Farm is a diversified vegetable farm growing on less than an acre in the high desert of southwest Colorado. They grow a wide variety of produce, with a focus on salad crops like head lettuce, salad mix, and other cut greens. They strive to provide the community with the highest quality chemical free, nutrient dense produce. Our first priority is soil health. Healthy soil equals healthy food. They do not use any chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Instead, they use compost, organic fertilizers, cover crops, crop rotation, and minimum tillage practices to promote the health of our soil.
The mission at Adobe House Farm is to provide the freshest fruits and vegetables to the local Durango, CO community using regenerative farming practices. They plant with diversity so that they do not have to use any pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers. They have an innovative solar-heated greenhouse and several high tunnels that allow them to grow vegetables year-round without the use of propane or natural gas heaters. Every year they farm, they help build soil and retain moisture by practicing minimal-tillage techniques and heavily applying mulch and compost from locally available inputs (such as coffee grounds, leaves, and manure from vegetarian animals fed with organic hay). They also hand-water and use drip irrigation to save water. Minimal machinery is used and all harvesting is done by hand.
The Grill buys their goat cheese from Breen Mesa Farm. Owned and operated by Edit Aquarian, Breen Mesa Farm is a FDA Certified goat dairy with a mobile milking parlor, practicing/teaching regenerative agriculture.
Elizabeth and Jared employ values of cider making in the European style, in which simplicity reigns. No coloring, no flavoring, and no additives--not even sugar. They create masterfully crafted hard ciders and wines, rooted in the history of the region, and are doing their part to revive the almost-abandoned apple industry in the wild Southwest. They support regional small agriculture, which carries forward unreplicable culture, and cares for irreplaceable ancient trees and orchards.
They delight and inspire deep-rooted community connection between the adventurers, fine spirit and food lovers, artists and visionaries, and all who are prepared to enjoy the exquisite fruits of their labors.
The Grill buys all their organic green chilies from Pueblo Seed Company. Nonna and Dan have been certified Organic since 2001 and have designed their systems with principles from rotational, conservation, regenerative, and biodynamic agricultural farming traditions. This dynamic couple have been growing open pollinated seed and garlic for national seed companies since 1996. Their work with seeds also has a conservation and stewardship dimension.
Mountain Belle Flower Farm grows an abundance of seasonal, unique, heirloom flowers carefully selected for their beauty and long vase life; as well as being favorable for Colorado's cool, high-elevation climate. Every single flower they grow is hand planted, lovingly tended in a sustainable manner, and harvested at its prime with absolutely zero harmful chemicals!
Mountain Belle Flower Farm was founded in 2016 by owner Elaine Ottman. "We grow our flowers on rented land, leased from the Gardens at James Ranch. For over two decades the Wheeling family of the James Ranch has tended this wonderfully productive plot of land, supplying the Durango area not only with wonderful vegetables, but with gorgeous flowers as well. As the Wheelings have downsized their operation and focused on winter squash, Mountain Belle Flower Farm is proud and delighted to be continuing a longstanding flower-growing legacy at the Gardens at James Ranch."
The James Ranch Market has Mountain Belle's fresh flowers for sale during the growing season most every day we are open.
