Latest Recipes

Aunt Mary Stockdale's Palisade Peach Cobbler This one is the best! Aunt Mary makes this cobbler every harvest in memory of her mother in law to celebrate summer! Sometimes she will substitute palisade apricots or cherries in place of the peaches.
Blue Sky Cream Puffs with Peach Mousse Entertaining made special with High Country Orchards fresh peaches and pastry puffs.
Cin-Fully Peach Jam 1st Prize winning fresh Palisade Peach jam. Redhaven or Newhaven variety have great color and make a great peach jam.
Confetti Peach Jam Peaches and cherries all in one jam!
Fresh Peach Pie Homemade peach pie with America's Best Peaches!
Fresh Peach Salsa Toss it all together and ENJOY! This salsa is wonderful served over fresh grilled seabass, halibut and most fresh white fish or poultry.
Grandma Mary's Peach Pizza Fresh fruit peach pizza with cream cheese and whipping cream! Perfect for Sunday brunch.
HCO Peaches & Cream Chef created Peach recipe inspired by High Country Orchard Peaches
Mesa Peach Delight Grand Prize winning fresh Palisade Peach dessert made with oreo cream cookie crust. For those fresh peach lovers who also love chocolate!
Never Fail Pie Crust by Dave Daves famous Never Fail Pie Crust is easy and one you will want to use again and again when baking fresh fruit pies!
Palisade Creamy Peach Pie This yummy fresh Palisade Peach pie is a blend of peaches and ice cream!
Palisade Peach and Raspberry jam Fresh Palisade Peach and Raspberry refrigerator jam made easy!
Palisade Peach Delight Grand Prize winning 2006 Palisade Peach Festival Recipe "Palisade Peach Delight"!
Palisade Peach Mousse Peach velvet! Smooth, light and creamy with a touch of white chocolate!
Palisade Peach Pie This is an easy one! Fresh peaches sliced up and baked with tapioca the old fashioned way.
Peaches and Cream Cake Prize winning "Peaches and Cream Cake".
Peaches & Cream Cake Fresh peaches layered between cake and real whipping cream!
Peaches 'N Cream Pecan Bars This recipe is so easy you just mix, bake and cool!
Peaches 'N' Cream Pie This is a must try Peaches 'n Cream nestled in a pie crust recipe that really brings out the freshness of High Country Orchards Palisade peaches.
Peach & A Little Rum Cobbler Peaches and rum cobbler 2nd place Prize winner in recipe contest!
Fresh Peach Chipolte Ketchup This ketchup will turn your basic vinaigarette exotic and add zest to any main dish.
Peach Fuzz Jam Quick and easy peach fuzz jam from made from Palisade Peaches!
Peach Melba This delicious recipe is based on the classic French version developed by the "King of Chefs" Auguste Escoffier.
Peach Pie Alamode with Cinnamon Ice Cream HCO Palisade Peach Pie with homemade Cinnamon Ice Cream. WOW!
Poppin' Peach Half Moons Create your own gourmet High Country Orchards Palisade Peach cookie desserts.
Rhubarb Peach Cherry Pie by Dave Dave makes the best rhubarb peach cherry pie this side of the Continental Divide! You have to try it!
Rosy Peach Jam Peaches, cherries and banana's make up this wonderful peach jam. Try it once and you''ll make it again!
Traditional Peach Cobbler Peach Cobbler the way grandma used to make it!
Western Slope Peach Salsa Fresh ingredients make the best peach salsa! Try this one on for freshness.

Latest News

High-Tech Machine Makes for High Quality Peaches in Palisade Colorado Electronic sorting machine finds means high quality results in sorting beautiful High Country Orchards Palisade Peaches
Obama Family Tours High Country Orchards and tastes the famous Colorado Palisade peaches Michelle Obama and daughters toured High Country Orchards to get a taste of those famous Colorado Palisade Peaches!
Best Peaches in the world?
See what our customers are saying: We love to hear from our customers!
Peachy Memories of Moms cookin Gene Amole, writer for the Rocky Mountain News, August 31, 2000 remembers Fresh Palisade Peaches. He tells of the summers with his mom "putting up" peaches to enjoy during the cold Colorado winter months.

Welcome to High Country Orchards!
Looking forward to the Summer Harvest!


MANY THANKS TO OUR GREAT CUSTOMERS!

What a wonderful 2009 Palisade Peach Harvest! It was both bountiful and busy. The Palisade peaches were just beautiful--and our customers, both near and far, were wonderful. 2009 Harvest saw us shipping peaches everywhere Obama Family Palisade Peaches--we were delighted to meet our customers as they include High Country Orchards in their "Western Tour" of the beautiful Grand Valley. We even had a visit from the First Family! (Palisade is bursting with pride to think of Palisade Peaches at the White House.)

Although the harvest is over, in the time honored tradition of farm families everywhere, we have captured that taste of Colorado sunshine in our wonderful selection of preserves and salsas--we hope you will enjoy them--especially as gifts for family and friends during the cold winter holidays!

Again, many thanks to you, our customer! We are gradually expanding our products and look forward to hearing from you (or seeing you when you make it out here!)
Keep in touch!
Sincerely,
Theresa, Scott, Katie, Matthew and Keenan High



We are very excited to offer gift boxes this year--your choice of our hand crafted preserves and salsas. A delicious gift for everyone on your list!! Browse in our online store today.
colorado peaches family orchard High Country Orchards invites you to visit our family owned and operated orchards, vineyards and gardens overlooking the scenic Colorado River in Palisade. We harvest 15 to 20 different varieties of tree-ripened peaches, Bing, Lambert and Rainier sweet cherries, and cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and petit verdot vitits vinifera red wine grape varieties. Our estate grown fresh fruits and vegetables are produced with fourth generation peach-grower experience and stretch over 126 acres of prime production land. At High Country Orchards we go to great lengths to consistently produce quality fruits and vegetables from our orchards, vineyards and gardens. We offer fresh produce and homemade products for sale at our Country Store at the orchards.

  1. We aggressively thin the potential peach crop early in the spring to lower the quantity and thus increase the quality of the peaches we grow,
  2. We pick each peach tree a minimum of four /five times in order to harvest premium peaches that are perfectly tree-ripened,
  3. We harvest in the mornings, when the fully ripened peaches are still cool and firm from the night before (this provides better flavor and a crisp freshness),
  4. We process our fruit with a digital sizing and sorting operation (as opposed to a mechanical sorting system) that gently handles the peaches in a very delicate manner. This enables us to pick all of our fruit in a more ripe condition,
  5. We ship our fruit to market overnight, so that it can be in the consumers hands usually within 24 hours of harvesting.
  6. We grow our peaches naturally and use integrated pest control management (IMP) to minimize spraying of our orchards and vineyards.



cabernet Sauv display palisade coloradoHigh Country Orchards ships delicious fresh preserves and salsa all year round from our website. Remember--we start shipping fresh peaches while in season beginning in July. We love visiting with our customers, so if you are in palisade peach countryccoloradothe Palisade / Grand Junction Colorado area, please stop by. You can take a tour of our award winning orchards overlooking the scenic Colorado River or take a stroll down memory lane at our Country Store. Be sure to take home a fresh tree-ripened taste of Colorado.

Grand Valley Magazine

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Wed-Sun. 11-5 every July & August.

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We've been in the News!

First Family visits High Country Orchard
--Touring and getting a taste of those delicious Palisade Peaches!

See NBC Video:
--How High-Tech Sorter Provides High Quality Peach Experience

Making that delicious Peach Salsa...
Chef Wayne works with Theresa

Why people Love our Palisade Peaches!
High-Tech Machine Makes for High Quality Peaches at Local Orchard

Our Unique Packing System:
--Read about it in the Denver Post!

High Country Orchards is Featured Farmer at Whole Foods
--The Whole Foods Featured Farmers Video!

Featured on Channel 9 News
--The "Swag Bag You Wished You Had" includes Our Famous Palisade Peaches for DNC 2008!

Read about our orchard in the NYTimes!
Click here to read!

We are proud to be included in the Denver Post Food Column!
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See What Our Customers are saying!

The peaches arrived in Valdez, Alaska (on the 29th) in perfect condition! Thank you so much for your help and consideration. My sister was so excited! She has been sharing them with everyone - so we will probably have to do this again next year:) Thanks again for all your help - it was worth it!
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Hi - just wanted to say that I ordered a box of peaches sent to thank some associates in Salt Lake City, and they got there really fast and I was told that they were wonderful, delicious, beautiful and came excellently packed!! Thanks so much - I see I did this just in time because you are now out of stock. Great service - I am very impressed and will order again next year!
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