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This page contains answers to common and uncommon questions about Rancho Durazno.

What does Rancho Durazno mean?

It means "Peach Farm" in Spanish. Pretty straight forward, but hard to spell and pronounce, so our farm is called "The Cameron Place."

"Cameron" because it's the name we share, "Place" because it's more than an orchard, more than a farm. We are surrounded by wild lands-desert cliffs and slopes no one should farm. They are part of every view, and define the place we live and farm, and make this one of the best sites in a valley famous for it's peaches.

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Where is Palisade?

Palisade is a small town of 1500 at the upper end of the Grand Valley of the Colorado River in western Colorado.  It is 12 miles east of Grand Junction, CO and 230 miles west of Denver, CO.

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What's special about Palisade peaches?

At 4775 feet elevation, in a desert climate, we receive intense sunlight, and enjoy cool nights in the growing season. Fruit that ripens in these conditions has a special concentration of sugars.

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What's special about your fruit?

Our peaches, plums, sweet cherries and apricots grow organically, nourished with compost, flowering cover crops and the intense Colorado sunshine, and are sustained with just enough irrigation water from the Colorado River.

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Are you special people too?

No, but we try hard, and live in faith that as we give, other people and the earth gives, and enough of that trickles back.

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