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Located at the base of Buckhorn Mountain at 6700' elevation, Buckhorn Gardens is a small, organic vegetable farm 13mi. south of Montrose, Colorado. Our farm is an active part of a 12,000 acre ranch; however, we only manage 3 acres with intensive vegetable gardening.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Wow, what a year?!We thought that we would run down all the major highlights of 2016! We could not have done it without your dogged support, thanks.

6 interns
28 weeks of CSA boxes
6 pigs
2 Goats
1 Duck
1 Dog
2 Cats
30 something chickens were purchased
Hundreds of pounds of veggies donated to local food banks
4 farmers' markets this year (2 in one day)
80 plus farmers' markets attended
Montrose Farmers' Market year round
1 Class from Telluride Mountain School toured the farm
1 Pig Cooked Hawaiian Style
1 Acre-ish of Potatoes Planted with over 20 volunteers
1 Credit card machine and an online payment system added for customer convenience
1 Chili Cook Off
4 of us attended 4th Annual Food and Farm Forum and fed the farmers salad
1 attended Holistic
100,000s of seeds planted
1,000s of seeds saved
$3,000+ dollars spent on organic seed
4 Buckhorn farmers attended the Food and Farm Forum
Farm participated in the Chili Fundraiser and Savor the San Juans