Going with the Grain

Photography By | March 21, 2018
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Winter wheat, like this Turkey Red at Laughing Wolf Farm, offers more protein.

Family farmers in Colorado are also experimenting with crops suited to our high-altitude climate and mountain geography. In the San Luis Valley, White Mountain Farm is cultivating indigenous Andean quinoa (to order, visit WhiteMountainFarm. com). Boulder-based RollinGreens sells addictive “millet tots” at various retail outlets on the Front Range (RollinGreens.com), made with millet (native to West Africa) grown by Clean Dirt Farm in Sterling.

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