The Colorado Peach Blog

The 2023 peach harvest is ramping up in Colorado. Harvest of early “cling” varieties started a couple of weeks ago, and orchards are beginning to harvest the first freestone varieties this week. The Colorado peach harvest is technically a week behind its usual schedule this year, but you wouldn’t know it now, as fresh tree-ripened…

Temperatures dipped dangerously close to 25 degrees on April 19th-20th, but thanks to a prolonged winter keeping the trees a couple of weeks behind schedule, most of Colorado’s peach crop looks to have survived relatively unscathed. Most growers in Colorado’s Palisade peach region have a positive outlook for the 2023 summer crop. Growers from around…