Aug 26, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
For Dominic DeSanti, leadership lessons started in the passenger seat of his dad’s old Chevy pickup, riding across the fifth-generation family farm he now leads in Pueblo. In this episode of Colorado…
Tell us a little bit more, you started about like what you produce, but like how many acres and what is this climate particularly perfect for farming? And just say a little bit more about that.
And then we have Rocky Mountain water coming off the Arkansas that we like to brag about for surface water for irrigation, because it's too dry here to grow crops without irrigation.
We grow 26 different crops, and you mentioned some of the biggest ones, but that's the peppers, pumpkins, summer squash, zucchini, green onions, cilantro, and then kind of a wide variety of tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, other things for our farm market.
And we sell at both levels, both the farm market there on the farm, and then wholesale, like you mentioned, through grocery chains and food service distributions throughout the state.
And then part of the farm, and mainly that's something that's happened in the past seven years, we've had this large expansion and we added a lot of commodity crops.
And that was for two reasons, to provide forage for the area, but also as a crop rotation tool.
And it's been just wonderful to... be able to rotate those crops with our veggies, fallow some of the ground into more of a less intensive.
We've seen a lot of good gains with organic matter, and especially with adding cover cropping and other practices like that.
So it's been a lot of fun to add those acres in the past probably five or six years.
Tell us a little bit more, you started about like what you produce, but like how many acres and what is this climate particularly perfect for farming? And just say a little bit more about that.
And then we have Rocky Mountain water coming off the Arkansas that we like to brag about for surface water for irrigation, because it's too dry here to grow crops without irrigation.
We grow 26 different crops, and you mentioned some of the biggest ones, but that's the peppers, pumpkins, summer squash, zucchini, green onions, cilantro, and then kind of a wide variety of tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, other things for our farm market.
And we sell at both levels, both the farm market there on the farm, and then wholesale, like you mentioned, through grocery chains and food service distributions throughout the state.
And then part of the farm, and mainly that's something that's happened in the past seven years, we've had this large expansion and we added a lot of commodity crops.
And that was for two reasons, to provide forage for the area, but also as a crop rotation tool.
And it's been just wonderful to... be able to rotate those crops with our veggies, fallow some of the ground into more of a less intensive.
We've seen a lot of good gains with organic matter, and especially with adding cover cropping and other practices like that.
So it's been a lot of fun to add those acres in the past probably five or six years.
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