Email Facebook Twitter Rss Phone: 719.254.7614 Home About Us Our Products » Food Safety Our People Farm Blog Contact Us Rocky Ford Growers Assn. 2017 Rocky Ford melon season is in full swing! If you visit Rocky Ford this time of year, you would notice a lot of activity from sunup to sundown. It’s a busy time of year, and about to get busier. The beautiful Rocky Ford Cantaloupe, Watermelon and Honeydew that we planted in late April and early May are growing like crazy, and we’re crossing our fingers for clear, hot weather and no hailstorms. Soon, we’ll be walking our fields daily, looking for the ripest, freshest Hirakata Farms melons to pick and send to market– often going from field to market within 12 hours. We’re also building a new watermelon packing shed to help process those melons as quickly as possible. We couldn’t do all this work without the (literal) help and support of our families, who are often the ones driving tractors, fixing irrigation, keeping the books, and doing a million other things that need to be done to make melon season happen. We couldn’t do it without our wonderful and hardworking employees, who show up ready to work hard every single day. And we couldn’t do it without you, the people who love to eat Hirakata Farms Rocky Ford melons. Thank you for spending your hard-earned money to support local family farms. We love growing those melons as much as you love eating them.

Email Facebook Twitter Rss Phone: 719.254.7614 Home About Us Our Products » Food Safety Our People Farm Blog Contact Us Rocky Ford Growers Assn. Farm Blog 2017 Rocky Ford melon season is in full swing! If you visit Rocky Ford this time of year, you would notice a lot of activity from sunup to sundown. It’s a busy time of year, and about to get busier. The beautiful Rocky Ford Cantaloupe, Watermelon and Honeydew that we planted in late April and early May are growing like crazy, and we’re crossing […] Read More 2013 Harvest Makes the News Watch this video news story from KDVR Fox 31 about this year’s Rocky Ford Cantaloupe™ harvest and our commitment to safety. Here’s an excerpt: On Friday, a packing shed at Hirakata Farms in Rocky Ford was humming with activity under the watchful eye of a food safety manager. “Training, training, training,” said Michael Hirakata, the […] Read More We are Grateful At Hirakata Farms we are very fortunate to have weathered the 2011 crisis that so deeply impacted our Rocky Ford growers and the cantaloupe industry. When we began last year, 2012, we did so with uncertainty and trepidation. The crisis was still fresh in everyone’s mind. We didn’t know how the year would turn out. […] Read More Shed Expansion At Hirakata Farms, we’ve been keeping pretty busy getting ready for the summer melon season. For this year, 2013, we are adding about 10,000 square feet to our shed. The new area will include a 6,000 square foot cooler and a 4,000 square foot receiving and storage area. This addition will help us maintain safety […] Read More