Martindale Family Farms has been farming in Gilcrest, about nine miles south of Greeley, Colorado for about 35 years. Before that, they farmed with Matt’s grandparents in Commerce City, CO (aka “Derby” or “Irondale”). Since the 1920’s, Matt’s grandparents were raising quality vegetables “for the market” taking them by horse and buggy, and then eventually in the 1930’s, by way of a single farm truck to the Denargo Market (near the Coors Field area). There’s a lot of rich family farm history in that area!
Photo Right – (Grandma Sylvia (middle) and Grandpa Floyd Palombo, and sons Gene and Pete (1934). (They later had three more children: Johnny, Angelo and Matt’s mom, Delores. Three of their four children continued to farm, including Delores).