Spring Greetings! Things are all in a dither here as we prepare to open this Saturday, April 13, 2024, for our annual Spring Open Farm Days!!  We are so busy getting the Farm Stand store ready, filling it with great plants, making sure all the plants are labeled, cleaned and ready, and hopefully getting our Plant Signs out too. Time is short and there is much left to do, but we are looking forward to seeing all our Farm visitors when we open this weekend. Open Farm Dates & Farm Stand Plant Sale April 13th – June 9th. We are open Saturday -Thursday   (closed on Fridays) Hour ..read more

Greetings Friends, It’s snowing again today, but gratefully, not in feet this time! In fact, it is barely accumulating at all, melting as fast as it hits the ground, so great moisture without so much worry.  It does make work more difficult, as it is too cold outside to move plants from one greenhouse to another, but we have plenty of tasks that don’t require taking the plants outdoors. This past week, we planted up all sorts of fun containers to sell at the Farm Stand when we open in about 3 weeks time. It feels like there is so much to get accomplished, that 3 weeks doesn’t feel suffic ..read more

This is our amazing greenhouse crew this spring…Leah, Eric, Ashley and Kaila. Chris and I are endlessly grateful for each one of them and they are keeping us on track with spring planting work so that we are ready now as wholesale orders are coming in and the Farm Stand Plant Sale opens in 4 weeks! Whenever we can manage it with the work load, we try to take a little time each week for a crew plant class. The class above was about Mahonia’s medicinal benefits as an antimicrobial herb and Garlic and all the amazing ways you can use it. We always learn new stuff, me included, and it is great fu ..read more

Snowy Greetings, Chris has been sprucing up things around here and on his list has been to build a new entrance  bridge that leads to the Farm Stand store’s front doors. This new bridge replaces our old one and it has beautiful bent willow decoration. Local artist, Michelle Taylor, has been creating a new Farm Stand sign, since the July hail storm ruined the existing one. The new sign will arrive tomorrow morning. I can’t wait! It’s going to be so beautiful, because everything Michelle paints is beautiful and fun. She is also painting a sign for the entrance bridge and driveway parking ..read more

Greetings Friends! Wow…In one week, Desert Canyon Farm will celebrate it’s 28th year in existence and Chris and I will have lived and worked in Canon City for that long too. So much happens in that amount of time, that it is almost hard to wrap our heads around all the amazing things, challenges, and changes that have occurred. In February 1996, we moved to this 5-acre piece of land, knowing we had our work cut out for us. Our house was previously a rental and the property was mostly empty of anything meaningful. There were only a couple few trees and those had not been cared for for a very l ..read more

Greetings Friends! We are in an ice box here in Colorado, with freezing cold temperatures, cold wind and a bit of snow, but in the greenhouses spring is starting to arrive already. Kaila returned to work this week and has begun filling up the next greenhouse, so now there are plants in 5 out of 9 greenhouses and by the end of January to early in February we expect that all the houses will be full up with plants for the spring busy season. The Lizard Greenhouse is filled with hardy figs, dwarf pomegranates, Eucalyptus, Olives and Lewisias. The Plant Barn is brimming over with Rosemary, culinar ..read more

Desert Canyon Farm Spring Crew Position Open We are looking to fill a greenhouse position for this spring. We want to hear from interested parties before January 10th with our intention being to hire this position by January 12th if possible (although the position does not begin until February). Here are the job details… We have a 16 hour a week crew opening in the greenhouse assisting to process wholesale orders, along with any other greenhouse/nursery/garden tasks that may need to be done on any given work day. This position will be a Monday-Thursday morning position and begins February 12t ..read more

Solstice Greetings, This year has been very full with wonderful happenings and sad ones too! Chris continues to play lots of music from gypsy jazz, traditional jazz, swing tunes and with the big band! We have a new future retirement home on wheels and we have been enjoying using it this fall. Our precious Shrek passed away in mid-summer and we miss him terribly. Cedar joined our family at 11 weeks old and is now nearly 8 months old and over 65 lbs. already. He keeps life full of fun and games! Tammi’s new book “The Green Kingdom” was released in spring in German and hopefully will be availa ..read more

Thanksgiving Greetings! This week has been all about boxing seeds to send to Germany and cleaning seeds for greenhouse production.  I sewed a huge amount of cloth bags and Chris is packing them full of our seed crops in preparation for shipping them to Jelitto in Germany. Later today, I’ll begin the daunting process of filling out the export documentation and submitting it so that we can get the inspections that are required to actually ship the seeds, hopefully by end of week if we are lucky. Recently, M’lissa came for a visit and we were delighted….especially Sadie above all of the re ..read more

Frozen Greetings! Our Desert Canyon Bigtooth Maple was so beautiful at the end of last week. Today it is naked of all it’s gorgeous salmon colored leaves. Yesterday brought 12 inches of very wet moisture-laden snow to us and a nighttime temperatures of 9 degrees F. The moisture is so welcome, but temperatures that cold, when things are not even close to dormant, is very difficult for the plants. We are hoping that we don’t loose too many plants because of the extreme cold this early in the fall. On the 20th of October, we hosted an organic farming workshop for the Colorado Dept. of Agricultu ..read more