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Originally Posted by DonDuck
I wasn't aware of the Burrell seed company. I noticed they are in Rocky Ford which in my mind used to produce the worlds best cantaloupes along with the Pecos cantaloupes from the Pecos river valley. When I was a kid, I drove a truck every harvest season to Rocky Ford for a loads of cantaloupes and over to Grand ★★★★★★★★ for loads of Orchard fruit. In Rocky Ford, I always bought cantaloupes from a Japanese family who consistently produced great cantaloupes. I often wonder if those areas still produce great product. I suspect most of the land has now been converted to housing developments.
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Below is a link to one of the larger farms in the Rocky Ford area. There is not a lot of land converted to houses, but quite a bit is getting dried up as more water is sucked from the area and sold to bigger metropolitan areas. The grower linked provides cantaloupes to the major grocer here in Pueblo and I usually send Carolyn137 a package of them every August.
http://hirakatafarms.com