New Year, New Land!

New year, new land! Imagine the possibilities!

Even with its many challenges, your farmers are grateful for the bountiful 2020 season and the strong support from all you folks in the community. As we turn the page on a difficult year, we have some great news to share with you all who are following along on the land front. Working with Poudre Valley Community Farms and the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas, we have landed (pun intended) a long term lease on a historic farm in northwest Fort Collins that the city's Natural Areas Department recently purchased.

The 30 acre farm is located on the north side of West Vine Drive between Taft Hill Rd. and Overland Trail. The land has type 1 soil and senior water rights and is the perfect size to allow us to grow the farm as well as build and maintain the health of the soil. The extra space will allow us to begin diversified grazing of our cover cropped land and bring even more vibrancy to the health of the soil. Healthy soil grows healthy crops and healthy crops grow healthy people! This new lease will allow us to focus on energy, soil, and water conservation while growing organic and economically viable crops. We are excited to integrate even more native beneficial habitat into the farm area which in turn will increase our biodiversity and give us a synergistic relationship with the City's Natural Area's goals for working landscapes. We will even be working with the City Natural Areas staff to design a trail system so it can coexist with a working conservation farm operation.

Happy New Year! We've already started work at Kestral Fields!

We will be integrating the land at Kestral Fields (Its official name) this coming year as well as maintaining the home farm at Taft Hill. It has been a long row to hoe in order to get to this point and we wouldn't be here without your enthusiastic support every season and the endless support of so many community members. We are honored and humbled to do this work for our community and can finally look forward to a long term future as a community farm in Fort Collins. Thank you is an understatement.

Cheers to a New Year!
Nic + the Native Hill Crew

P.S. The land at Montava is still in our future and we continue to cover crop it and work closely with the development team. Stay tuned for updates.