A 40-acre Kitchen Junk Drawer
Not quite sure how to describe what we discovered at Miller Family Farms just outside Platteville, Colorado . It isn't quite a junkyard, although there is a replica of the Sandford and Son truck. It isn't quite a "museum" since most of the items are simply placed in the dirt, falling apart or otherwise not really identified. It is, at best, an "experience". The farm is a fully operational, real working farm. Established in 1949 by Roy and Dorothy Miller and their story of striking out and maintaining an actual, traditional family farm is heart-warming in an age of mega-industrialization of rural Colorado. With a huge variety of crops and full-in support of family market days across the region, we originally visited to take advantage of their 5-bag offer of picking your own produce. Granted, the price was fairly steep at $65, but given that I am a dedicated, but horrific urban vegetable gardener, I had visions of my girls appreciating an experience of w...
