Dairy Farming On Telluride Valley Floor

It was formerly the hunting and camping ground for the ute indians.

Dairy farming on telluride valley floor. A good time to relax and enjoy the scenary. Start at the top of sunshine mesa road near the dairy farm and have a car waiting for you at the bottom of fall creek rd. 12 miles of great single track with a little double track in the middle and then 8 miles of downhill on the road to the car. May 2007 vfpp and the town of telluride successfully raise 50m to acquire the valley floor.

Nowadays the valley floor s approxi mately 800 acres are leased each summer by the san miguel valley corporation to oop s successor dewey campbell who likes to say he s been chasing other people s cattle smce 1942. Just off of hwy 145. Although any mammal can produce milk commercial dairy farms are typically one species enterprises. In developed countries dairy farms typically consist of high producing dairy cows other species used in commercial dairy farming include goats sheeps and camels in italy donkey dairies are growing in popularity to produce an alternative milk source for human infants.

Desserts pickles sausages dressings spice blends cocktail syrups bitters and more. August 2009 the telluride town council unanimously approves a conservation easement perpetually protecting the property as open space. We work closely with farms in delta montrose and the surrounding communities to establish a farm to table economy for fresh dairy proteins and produce with few exceptions everything is made in house with natural ingredients. By 1880 the gold king wagon road now called boomerang provided a new access to the valley from the south and the population grew to five women and 200 men.

The celebration of 10th anniversary of telluride s valley floor acquisition to take place thursday saturday june 1 3 2017. It then became the site of san miguel city mining and dairy farms. He cut the tenacious willows from the valley and put the land to hay. The extended telluride community is invited to raise its voice in hosannas to one of telluride s most iconic and well loved public open spaces and commemorate the hard fought battle for its preservation.

By 1879 brown recreated his ohioan heritage and became a dairy farmer one of the first to ranch on the valley floor. Each summer he brings in about 200 hol stein veal lings and 30 pregnant red heifers from a dairy near fruita. Placer mining and dairy farms the south side of the valley floor has seen only cattle grazing. June 2008 the colorado supreme court rules in favor of the town s acquisition of the valley floor.

The valley floor is 570 acres of land that was placed on the list of america s 11 most endangered historic places in 2000.