Melons in all shades of colors are delivered daily, or every other day, along with other produce grown on the farm in Rocky Ford. The market is open daily 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

She is talking about Rocky Ford Melons. She’s at Knapp’s Farm Market in Rocky Ford, Colorado picking up four cantaloupe, tomatoes, and some corn. She drove a long way to get here.

ROCKY FORD, Colo. (KRDO)- Rocky Ford cantaloupes and watermelons are a staple of Colorado Summers. But already mid-way through July, they're nowhere to be found at Colorado supermarkets.

Watermelons from Colorado’s Rocky Ford melon fields are rolling into markets, and the choices might surprise you. “We are growing four varieties this year,” said Michael Hirakata, owner of ...

ROCKY FORD, CO — Rocky Ford cantaloupe and watermelons are hitting the shelves at grocery stores and farmers markets in Colorado. Michael Hirakata, owner of Hirakata farms says the cantaloupe ...

Politicians and farmers wolfed down Rocky Ford cantaloupe Saturday in an eating contest designed to bolster the melon’s image following a deadly outbreak last year of listeria. The event at the ...

M anzanola, Colo. (KKTV) - It’s the time of year where Southern Colorado farmers start growing their famous Rocky Ford melons. However, with recent hailstorms, farmers have been through some ...

KXRM Colorado Springs. The Rich History of the Rocky Ford Melons. Story by Julie Baker • 8mo (ROCKY FORD, Colo.) — There’s ...

ROCKY FORD, Colo. — It's officially melon season and growers in southeastern Colorado say the yield is the sweetest in recent memory.

ROCKY FORD, Colo. (AP) - Nearly a year after tainted cantaloupes from southeast Colorado sickened hundreds and caused a nationwide melon scare, farmers in Rocky Ford are celebrating a strong crop ...

ROCKY FORD, Colo. — The world's best melons are on their way. Farmers in southeast Colorado have planted this year's crop of cantaloupe and melons. The cantaloupe and melons planted in Rocky ...

Aug. 18—The best of the season's cantaloupes, honeydews, dove melons, yellow flesh watermelons and watermelons (regular, seedless and personal size) hail from Rocky Ford, a small town in ...