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. Rocky Ford Growers Association The Rocky Ford Growers Association was formed in 2011 by the growers of Rocky Ford Cantaloupe™ to strengthen and protect the reputation of the world famous melons. The Rocky Ford growing region has now been defined as Otero County and Crowley County South of the Colorado Canal. To learn more, please visit the Rocky Ford Growers Association website and their Facebook page. Watch TV Commercial

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. Home» Farm Blog » Shed Expansion 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 and quality control. The cooler area will house new high capacity cooling units which will maintain temperatures at 38 degrees. This new cooling area will provide extra space to store our cantaloupes and melons. By keeping our melons cool, we will be able to reduce field heat and condensation, and preclude potential bio issues. This will also help us maintain freshness when we ship our cantaloupes and honeydews to our grocery customers. The expansion should be completed in time for our first harvest. Right now, that’s looking like mid-July. We’ll see. That’ll depend on mother nature! Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated on our progress this season.

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. Our Products Rocky Ford Melons Rocky Ford Melons are legendary for their characteristically sweet and juicy taste. Ever since the first planting in 1887, Rocky Ford Cantaloupes™ have been the standard to which growers around the world aspire. At Hirakata Farms we work hard to employ best agricultural and farm management practices, but we can’t take all the credit. That’s because we are truly blessed with the right climate and growing conditions that make Rocky Ford so special. Our Special Climate Some say it’s the hot sunny days and cool clear nights that make Rocky Ford Cantaloupes™ so sweet and flavorful. Others claim it’s the altitude or perhaps the clay soils and snow-melt irrigation that bestow quality. Regardless, for over a century, farmers in Rocky Ford, Colorado have harnessed summer’s sunshine and captured nature’s goodness to produce the world-famous melons. Hirakata Farms currently grows several melon varieties. Click below to learn more: Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Rocky Ford Honeydew Rocky Ford Watermelon