https://www.facebook.com/379285698609230/

Back to the Land Western Slope

Home
United States
Clifton, CO
Back to the Land Western Slope

Contact information, map and directions, contact form, opening hours, services, ratings, photos, videos and announcements from Back to the Land Western Slope, Garden Center, Clifton, CO.

11/11/2026

One of the best parts of growing your own food year-round in Grand Junction is being able to walk outside and pick fresh ingredients for dinner, even in November!

Once you build your garden, make your own compost and start saving seeds, it can feed your family year after year at very little cost.

The work gets easier too after you know when different things need to happen and what can wait until the right time.

We still buy some ingredients from the store. We bought some kielbasa on sale, a couple of pieces of bacon, and some rice. This meal cost us about $3.50 for a family of 5.

11/02/2026

For many people in the Grand Junction area, gardening season is over. For us, our late fall growing season is just getting started!

We still have a ton of food coming out of the garden, and some of these crops will keep producing throughout the winter.

Growing food in Western Colorado doesn’t have to end with the first frost!

10/27/2026

We couldn’t get Gwen to take a normal picture, but at least we got a few butternut squash for the winter! Lol.

It’s supposed to freeze next week, so we harvested the last of our summer crops, including tomatoes, tomatillos and squash.

Our late fall and winter crops are doing great and we will keep getting fresh food out of the garden all winter long.

10/19/2026

Our friend Donald Hunger ran into some Puffball mushrooms today. Another western slope foraging surprise. They are really delicious.

10/18/2026

Not bad for our first year growing sweet potatoes!

We decided to give sweet potatoes a try in the garden this year, and we ended up harvesting a few monsters! We weren’t sure how well they would grow here in Western Colorado, but we’re pretty happy with the results.

One of the things I enjoy about gardening is experimenting with new crops and figuring out what works in our climate. Every year we learn a little more about what we can grow to feed our family.

Looks like we’ll be making a lot more room for sweet potatoes next year!

10/14/2026

A couple of weeks ago, I learned how to forage two new wild foods right here in Western Colorado: pine nuts from piñon pine trees and prickly pear cactus fruit!

I’ve known about both for years, but this was my first time actually gathering and eating them.

The prickly pear was a big hit with the kids! Once I got all the tiny spines removed and peeled the skin off, they loved it. They said it tasted kind of like watermelon.

I also learned how to collect pine nuts from piñon pine cones. It’s pretty amazing how much food is growing naturally around us if we take the time to learn what to look for.

Every new food we learn to identify and harvest is another step toward becoming more self-sufficient.

🌵 Have you ever eaten prickly pear fruit or gathered your own piñon pine nuts?

10/14/2026

One of the best parts of growing your own food isn’t just the harvest. It’s the time you spend together as a family.

Processing the garden harvest can take a lot of time, but it’s also a great opportunity to slow down, sit around the table with your kids and talk about life.

Whether you’re sorting tomatoes, cleaning peppers, preserving food or cooking a meal together, these activities create opportunities for conversations that might not happen otherwise.

Along the way, kids learn valuable skills, from growing and preparing food to understanding the importance of responsibility, patience and working together.

But perhaps the most important thing we’re growing isn’t in the garden at all. It’s the relationships we build with our children.

At Back to the Land Western Slope, we believe growing your own food is about more than self-sufficiency. It’s about passing down knowledge, sharing stories and building memories that last a lifetime.

Sometimes the best conversations happen while your hands are busy working together.

🌱 Grow food. Teach skills. Build relationships.

09/27/2026

Our second You Tube video is up! Don't forget to click subscribe on our channel.

Can you grow asparagus for free? In this video, I collect asparagus...

Address

Clifton, CO
81520

Telephone

+19702009412

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Back to the Land Western Slope posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.