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KUNC talks with Colorado State University horticulture specialist Jeff Pieper to learn more about the conditions that create western Colorado’s peaches. Pieper says it started more than 100 years ago when farmers decided to divert Colorado River water onto arid land near the mouth of De Beque Canyon.

With fruit this good, it’s only natural to have a little bit of Palisade peach anxiety in the run-up to the season. But this year, circumstances have only intensified that feeling among those who are prone to it.

Halfway down a dead-end road in the small farming town of Palisade, Colorado, is a research facility known as "The Insectary." Scientists at the lab…

Colorado’s apple orchards are bearing less fruit. Growers are projecting an 80 percent drop in apple production for 2015. The state’s peach producers are…

Colorado already draws thousands of visitors each year for skiing, hiking, beer drinking and, most recently, marijuana sampling. In 2012, those visitors…

Water has always been a source of conflict in the arid West, but in recent years the conflict between agriculture and growing cities has escalated as both…

The declining number of orchards and vineyards in Colorado is calling one Grand Junction group to action. The Mesa Land Trust has put 115 new acres of…