Farming in Colorado

Although cities and populated areas of Colorado supported farming, it was small and not a very popular job to be doing. The reasons for this is because most of the attention from the government and the people went to the mining industry and also due to the fact that farming land was located in the “Great American Desert”, and was considered uninhabitable.

Most of the farming areas were located in Southern Colorado and the San Luis Valley. They were located there because of the existing population, people from Mexico, who already had improved methods of farming and how to keep crops alive in rough and dry areas.

Around the time farming was sprouting in Eastern Colorado, Nathan Meeker had the idea of Agricultural Unions. Those agricultural unions helped establish farming towns or town centers in farming communities which helped boost the economy of farming communities.