High Altitude Harvest Festival

This interactive event will include demonstrations from area experts, local produce vendors, and information booths.

SCHEDULE:

Outdoor Market (In the Parking Lot): 10:00AM - 1:00PM

Vendors/Information Booths and Food Trucks (Outside):

1. Ultreia Farm & Wellness

2. Balcony Botanicals

3. Elk Mountain Farmacy

4. Plant & Dig Club

5. Cedaredge Community Garden

6. Kids Activity Corner - Apple Cider Press

7. Root Rock Farm

8. Honey Moon Mesa

9. Quiet Farm - Organic Heirloom Beans

10. Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center

11. Marble Road Farm - Organic meat birds and free-range eggs

12. La Gran Señora

13. Scoops Ice Cream

14. Osito Farms Organic Orchard & Vineyard

Presentations (In the Theatre) 11:00AM - 1:00PM:

11:00AM: Kristi Stites of Balcony Botanicals: Lavender Harvesting and Growing

Kristi Stites’s love of lavender began over 15 years ago when she began making her own body care products to help soothe her skin in the dry Colorado climate. Lavender has always been a key ingredient in her products not only due to its scent, but healing properties. After several years of research and farm visits, she began to understand that Colorado was the ideal climate to grow her own lavender and Balcony Botanicals was born. Balcony Botanicals, is located between Hotchkiss and Paonia and grows 15 different types of lavender. With over 1,300 lavender plants, Kristi distills her lavender to create lavender essential oil that she both sells and uses in her body products. Many of the varieties grown on Balcony Botanicals are also edible and are dried, cleaned and sold for use in both sweet and savory creations.

11:30AM: Ryan Gannaway of Elk Mountain Farmacy: Fermentation

Ryan Gannaway started Elk Mountain Farmacy with her partner, Jake Sakson, almost 8 years ago. Since then, their business has grown to support two farmers markets and a thriving local market. Ryan now runs the business mostly on her own with some help during the busy times. They are truly proud to offer locally grown veggies in their 3 month long, medicinal ferments. Their product is still the only one out there that uses traditional ceramic crocks and long fermentation times, making their product the highest quality one you can find!

12:00PM: Elizabeth Buckingham of Quiet Farm: Seed Saving

Elizabeth and Nicholas own Quiet Farm, just north of Cedaredge, where they focus on unique vegetables, heirloom dry beans and seed saving. They raise laying hens and keep alpacas and llamas for pasture management. Elizabeth is passionate about foodshed sovereignty and the connection between food and health. Learn more at findingquietfarm.com.

12:30PM: Melissa Newell of Ultreia Farm & Wellness: Season Extension

Melissa Newell is co-owner of Ultreia Farm and Wellness with her partner, Cale.  The two relocated to Cedaredge in 2016 and promptly started their farm business that specializes in growing organically produced vegetables and flowers.  They grow intensively on limited acreage and in two, unheated hoophouses.  You can find their produce and flowers at a weekly seasonal Pop Up Market in Cedaredge and through various CSAs that they offer.  Melissa is an ardent preserver of all things that grow in her garden by way of fermentation, freezing, dehydrating, and canning.