Gather your own local ingredients
We are so glad to live in a place where farmers are busy and the local Farm to Table movement is strong. Wisehart Springs Inn has two full kitchens so there’s plenty of space for you to prepare your own culinary works of art if you want to gather your own local ingredients. See the Valley Organic Growers website here and our own favorites listed below.
Mountain Oven
Arbol Farms
Farm Runners
Don’s Market
West Elk AVA
The West Elks American Viticultural Area (AVA) spreads through Delta county on the Western Slope of Colorado. It boasts of some of the highest vineyards in North America and the some of the best Colorado wine. This high mesa area in the Colorado Rockies seems an unlikely place to grow grapes and make wine. But here you will find some of the best wine produced in the state.
Delicious Orchards
Local produce, Big B’s Juice, Café
Delicious Orchards, the home of Big B’s Juices, has a beautiful farm store with great local organic products, a café serving delicious food made from local ingredients, a camp ground nestled in the orchard with views of the surrounding mountains, and guests can come by and hand pick organic cherries, pears, peaches, and apples. Delicious Orchards and Big B’s Fabulous Juices are proud to support local sustainable agricultural and land stewardship.
Indigo Autumn
(formerly the Trading Post)
Since its beginning, fifteen years ago, the Trading Post’s and now Indigo Autumn’s purpose has been to facilitate the mutual support between local farmers and local community. Recognizing the treasure that is our farmers, farms and the highest-quality food they produce, our aim is to provide a place for people to enjoy, share and learn about them. We also believe that its lasting strength, the ability of this community to adapt and thrive is measured by the quality of the connections within it. At the Trading Post we forge these connections at our grocery counter, in the kitchen, over lunch in the restaurant, in the classroom, and out on the farm.
Lamborn Mountain Farmstead
Goatmilk, Lavender Products and Highland Cattle Beef
We have lavender and lavender products for sale, goat milk soap, goat shares (which enable locals to receive goat milk), and halves and quarters of tender, good tasting, grass finished highland cattle beef.
Desert Weyr – Lamb, Mutton and Apples
At Desert Weyr we develop and implement sustainable systems to conserve the rare and endangered animals that provide so much for us. Our primary goals are the conservation of genetic resources and promotion of sustainable agriculture systems. We currently work primarily with Black Welsh Mountain sheep. We also work to conserve the old apple trees.
Thistle Whistle Farm
Thistle Whistle is a 16-acre farm in Hotchkiss Colorado. We are organic but not certified. We grow veggies and have milk goats, chickens, dogs and boys.
