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Forte' Farms |
Forte' Farms was started in 1972. Two hundred feet above the valley floor and right over the Colorado River we found the perfect location on East Orchard Mesa in Palisade. |
Our second and third years on the farm we grew the fruit according to Organic methods. It soon dawned on me that I was spraying more, not less under these rules and the expense involved forced me to market to a small niche. I resolved that I wanted my fruit to have broad appeal so it could not be too pricey. |
I decided to grow a "boutique" orchard. I would fawn over a relatively small acreage and raise as many different types of fruit on these manicured acres as possible. In the past 34 years I've bought and sold two other orchards, I have also leased many other orchards, but I'm now farming only the original twenty acres. |
We have 11 varieties of peaches, 10 types of plums, 7 kinds of apricots, three types of apples, and two varieties of cherries and Bartlett pears. We also have new plantings of apriums and pluots (recently developed crosses between apricots and plums). I have developed long lasting relationships with a few other quality growers to provide the other items you might find in our store or at our stands at the Farmers Markets. |
By using relatively strong chemicals in the dormant season and with the use of pheromone mating disruption techniques (flooding the orchard with the pest's pheromones so the males cannot find the females) we are often able to bring our peaches, plums, apricots and cherries to market without ever having sprayed them. |
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