The following article snippets are from The Daily Sentinel’s Real Estate Weekly magazine. The magazine publishes every Sunday and provides real estate information, homes for sale and sales transactions for Mesa County areas like Palisade, Colorado, Grand Junction, and Fruita.
Palisade offers hard work and the right location for those who want to farm
Growing Opportunities
The Colorado Mountain Winefest is winding down today, and as visitors to the festival look around, many of them are perhaps taking an envious look at the charming areas near Palisade and East Orchard Mesa, wondering if they can become farmers, too.
The good news is that yes, there are farm properties available and farming doesn’t take an advanced degree from Harvard to succeed.
The bad news is that it takes money to buy farm properties, farm equipment, trees or grapevines and farming is hard, 24/7 work, especially during the growing season. There’s also a steep learning curve as someone new to farming learns about plant diseases, preventing bugs, birds or deer from destroying crops, irrigation, winter and spring pruning, as well as harvesting and marketing a crop.
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Palisade sees new activities in housing, business
- Penny Stine
The festival season has begun in Palisade and will continue throughout the summer and into the fall, with the next scheduled festival, Palisade Brews and Cruise, on May 5. This will be the fourth year for the beer festival, which will be at the Veteran’s Memorial Park.
In addition to the festival in the park, where attendees can sample more than 100 different beers, there will be a brewmaster’s dinner on Friday, May 4 at the new 13 Brix Cider Bistro in downtown Palisade.
The Grand Valley Marathon will also be on May 5, with a 5K and a 10K runs starting and ending in Palisade. Part of the proceeds from the run will benefit the Fruit and Wine Byway, which will replace signs for the popular driving and biking route.
There are several new businesses that are planning to open or have opened their doors in Palisade, including Spun Fiber Arts Studio, which keeps limited hours on Friday and Saturday only, and Peaches Coffee Shop, which had its building and health inspections last week and hopes to open this coming week.
