Farms Near Durango, CO

Turtle Lake Refuge is a Durango, Colorado nonprofit founded in 1998 by Katrina Blair, growing and foraging local, wild, and living foods on land northwest of town. At the farmers market it sells microgreens, kombucha, kimchi, kraut, dehydrated foods, and granola bars, and its Turtle Cafe serves donation-based lunches on Tuesdays and Fridays. The group also teaches wild foraging and food-prep classes.

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The Durango Farmers Market is a growers market, meaning all vendors who attend the market grew or raised their product. We also have ready to eat food vendors who must show they are using local ingredients. Our artisans may not resell any products, all artisan goods must be handmade by the vendor.

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James Ranch in Durango's Animas Valley runs on regenerative practices that produce 100% grass-fed and finished beef, truly raw grass-fed artisan cheeses, pastured eggs, vegetables, flowers, and Colorado blue spruce trees. The on-site James Ranch Market is open daily and the table-on-the-farm Grill serves ranch-raised ingredients, alongside live music, yoga, self-guided tours, a farm school for kids, and lodging with valley views.

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We grow certified organic vegetables and raise grass fed heritage lamb.

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After farming in Virginia for 18 years, Dean and Susan decided in late 2018 to make the big move to a 5 acre farm in Hermosa, Colorado, 8 miles North of Durango. Throughout 2019 we worked towards establishing our farm and making it our own. We are farming not just organically, but also biologically here, as we did in Virginia.

Twin Buttes Farm Stand sits at 165 Tipple Ave. off Highway 160 in Durango, Colorado, part of the Twin Buttes community farm just west of town. The stand sells vegetables, fruit, herbs, cut flowers, eggs, and honey grown on the farm, plus frozen cuts of locally raised grass-fed beef. It opens Wednesdays 3 to 6:30 from mid-June into early October, with year-round online ordering.

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Callie Burgess and Tom Jense have run this u-pick pumpkin patch at the corner of Highway 172 and County Road 220 since 2008. The field holds around 2,000 pumpkins by peak season, and the owners add something new to the pumpkin maze and cemetery display every year, plus slides for younger kids. Open weekends only — Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — through October. A no-frills La Plata County stop for families who want pumpkins picked, not shipped.

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The Old Fort at Hesperus, Colorado — 16 miles southwest of Durango — is Fort Lewis College's 501-acre agricultural campus, training future farmers for arid mountain environments through the Farmers-in-Training program, a business incubator field, and a ranching apprenticeship. The public can join the weekly CSA, shop the Fort Lewis College farm stand and Country Store, and visit for tours and events on land steeped in Southwest history.

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Happy Apple Orchard grows apples on County Road 513 outside Ignacio, in the same southwest Colorado valley as Fox Fire Farms' vineyard. No website or social presence turned up in research beyond the address on file — call ahead to confirm what's in season.

Fourteen full-time and eight part-time ranching families run this co-op out of Hesperus in southwest Colorado, since 2002, selling beef, pork, lamb, goat, rabbit, heritage turkey, chicken, eggs, vegetables, and herbs, most of it raised above 7,000 feet. It's a producer-owned outlet built to share marketing costs instead of competing for the same customers.

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Jack-A-Lope Acres is a working farm and ranch on County Road 318 in Ignacio, opened to the public in 2021 for farm tours, a pumpkin patch, and a corn maze serving the Durango and Farmington area. It also runs a gift shop with snacks and slushies.

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Sutherland Farms has grown pesticide-free produce near Aztec for over 35 years and runs a retail market alongside grass-fed beef and lamb raised without grain or hormones. The stand carries sweet corn, melons, chile, tomatoes, squash, and much more from mid-August through Halloween. Fall brings a Green Chile Festival and a Pumpkin Festival with a corn maze, hayrides, and duck races. It sits in the San Juan River valley of northwest New Mexico.

Bandy Ranch has raised beef around Aztec in northern New Mexico for more than 30 years, working both sides of the Colorado line. Cattle summer in the high country above Durango and winter on the ranch, finishing on native grass and forage with no added hormones or antibiotics. The beef comes lean and aged. Buyers can visit the ranch for cuts or order quarters and halves by phone, text, or email.

Fox Fire Farms grows wine grapes at 6,500 feet on a 910-acre ranch that's been in the same family for five generations, making it one of the few commercial vineyards operating between Durango and Pagosa Springs. Cold-climate hybrid varieties go into Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, rosé, and fruit wines, poured Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m., May 15 through October 31. Friday nights in summer add live music and food from 6 to 9 p.m.

Sacred Song Farm is a New Mexico farm with almost no public footprint — no website, hours, or crop list surfaced online. A small farm operating under this name would most likely sell direct from the land or through a nearby growers' market.

Run by the Town of Mancos, this market sets up at 117 North Main Street from spring through fall. Vendors bring fruit, vegetables, baked goods, flowers, and crafts from the Mancos Valley, a farming area between Cortez and Durango in southwest Colorado. It's run through the town office rather than a nonprofit, which keeps it tied to the town's own calendar.

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