Palisade grows the peaches the whole state waits for and the grapes behind most of Colorado’s wine, on benches under Mount Garfield and the Book Cliffs where the Colorado River slows down and warms the air. It is farm country with a festival calendar, and every orchard, vineyard, tasting room and river-road home has a job list. We’re twenty minutes west on I-70 in Grand Junction, and we’ve been loading trailers bound for Palisade for decades. (970) 241-4368.
A place that hosts weddings, festivals and tasting-room crowds all summer mows more than most. Rent a Hustler zero-turn or walk-behind by the day for the big weekend, or buy one: we’re the authorized Hustler and Husqvarna dealer, with five zero-turns on the floor and the service bay to keep them cutting straight.
Trellis posts go in by the hundred, and the ground under Palisade’s benches is river cobble under a foot of loam. A post-hole auger or walk-behind trencher turns a week of hand digging into an afternoon; a Bobcat mini excavator handles the mainline and the ditch crossing. When winter pruning stacks up, the chipper turns it into mulch for the rows.
