USDragoon
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Hello everyone!
My name is Randy, and I live in Colorado, about 50 miles west of Pueblo in the Wet Mountains at about 9000' elevation.
We own 40 acres and trying to develop a diverified farm. I recently had the urge (due to a friend/ home bewer) to attempt to start a "micro" vineyard this coming spring.
We've lived here for about 5 years now having moved from Peachtree City, Georgia.
We are greenhorns at farming, but have learned a lot the hard way although we try to learn as much as we can before hand. Our climate is tough, with our growing season short and winters long. Last February the lowest it got was -35F with wind chills making it to -80F. The winds can be hurricane strength, which makes things interesting to say the least.
The county we live in used be a huge food producer for what was then a territory, and they even considered placing the state capital here once upon a time, since this was a huge silver minning area back in the day. In fact, we live next to what was the largest silver mine in the state called "The Bassick mine".
Our property used to be 4 seperate mining claims of 10 acres each until we bought them and vacated the lines into one parcel and aquired our agricultural statues.
Water is huge issue for Colorado, as the state is required by law to export its water to nieghboring states, and even to Mexico. By law, I'm only allowed to water 1 acre of lawn or garden, and may water as much livestock as I want, which makes things interesting in trying to become diversified as a farm.
I came up with an idea though- instead of blanket watering an acre square, I want to incorperate a drip irrigation system to water specific plants, or plant areas, to be able to maximize my overall vegetative food production. As an acre is around 43,000 square feet, I think I can potentially water a lot of individual plants/ plant groups this way.
Any how, I look forward to learning a lot from you seasoned growers in the coming months as I plan out this possibly insane venture
Thanks!
Randy
My name is Randy, and I live in Colorado, about 50 miles west of Pueblo in the Wet Mountains at about 9000' elevation.
We own 40 acres and trying to develop a diverified farm. I recently had the urge (due to a friend/ home bewer) to attempt to start a "micro" vineyard this coming spring.
We've lived here for about 5 years now having moved from Peachtree City, Georgia.
We are greenhorns at farming, but have learned a lot the hard way although we try to learn as much as we can before hand. Our climate is tough, with our growing season short and winters long. Last February the lowest it got was -35F with wind chills making it to -80F. The winds can be hurricane strength, which makes things interesting to say the least.
The county we live in used be a huge food producer for what was then a territory, and they even considered placing the state capital here once upon a time, since this was a huge silver minning area back in the day. In fact, we live next to what was the largest silver mine in the state called "The Bassick mine".
Our property used to be 4 seperate mining claims of 10 acres each until we bought them and vacated the lines into one parcel and aquired our agricultural statues.
Water is huge issue for Colorado, as the state is required by law to export its water to nieghboring states, and even to Mexico. By law, I'm only allowed to water 1 acre of lawn or garden, and may water as much livestock as I want, which makes things interesting in trying to become diversified as a farm.
I came up with an idea though- instead of blanket watering an acre square, I want to incorperate a drip irrigation system to water specific plants, or plant areas, to be able to maximize my overall vegetative food production. As an acre is around 43,000 square feet, I think I can potentially water a lot of individual plants/ plant groups this way.
Any how, I look forward to learning a lot from you seasoned growers in the coming months as I plan out this possibly insane venture
Thanks!
Randy
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