Paonia is a small town surrounded by orchards, small farms and mountains. We grow a wide variety of vegetables, flowers, and herbs for the Crested Butte farmers markets and local restaurants. The North Fork of the Gunnison River is next to our farm and we have wonderful views of the mountains that surround Paonia. We have been here since 2005 and sold at the Crested Butte Farmers Market since 2007
. We are attempting to farm in balance with nature and are restoring riparian habitat along the river for wildlife. We have recorded 184 species of birds on our property and really enjoy seeing the diversity of butterflies that pollinate our flowers. We started a small experiment growing oyster and shiitake mushrooms in 2013. We harvested some oyster mushrooms in the fall of 2013 and will hopefully have a nice shiitake harvest in spring of 2014. We have one bee hive which will hopefully make it through the winter. We also have six goats for milk and we make our own cheese and yogurt. We provide our own eggs with a small flock of chickens. We have a small orchard of peach, apple, pear, apricot, and plum trees.
