%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en Debus Farm http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/debus-farm <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Debus Farm</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/yongli" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">yongli</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2017-05-19T10:35:18-06:00" title="Friday, May 19, 2017 - 10:35" class="datetime">Fri, 05/19/2017 - 10:35</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/debus-farm" data-a2a-title="Debus Farm"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fdebus-farm&amp;title=Debus%20Farm"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>The Debus Farm is a historic sugar beet farm in <a href="/article/logan-county">Logan County</a>, located north of the <a href="/article/south-platte-river">South Platte River</a> near the intersection of US 138 and County Road 67. Founded by the German Russian Debus family in 1925, the farm is a prominent example of the contributions that German Russian families made to the state’s <a href="/article/sugar-beet-industry">sugar beet industry</a> throughout the twentieth century.</p> <h2>Debus Family</h2> <p>Originally from the German state of Hesse, ancestors of the Debus family moved to the Volga River valley in Russia during the eighteenth century. They made a decent living farming sugar beets and other crops until economic distress and oppression by the Russian czars forced them and many other German families out of the valley in the 1870s.</p> <p>German Russians’ knowledge of sugar beet cultivation and harvesting made them valuable to the burgeoning beet industry in the United States, particularly as field laborers. In the 1890s, Henry and Maria Debus moved from Kukkus, Russia, to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the couple had their first child, Mary, in 1901. The family relocated several times over the next ten years, finding work in beet fields in Nebraska and Michigan before settling in Paxton, Nebraska, around 1913. By 1917 the Debuses had seven children: Mary, Phillip, Katherine, Henry, Marie, Amelia, and George. Maria died of childbirth complications in 1920, leaving Henry to support their large family on his own.</p> <p>Henry Debus became a naturalized citizen in 1924. The next year he bought 160 well-irrigated acres near the small town of Proctor, Colorado, from ranchers Robert and Leola Hamil. After spending two decades laboring in others’ beet fields, the Debus family moved to Colorado to start their own beet farm.</p> <h2>Farming in Logan County</h2> <p>By the time the Debuses arrived in Logan County, sugar beet farming had been driving the local economy for more than twenty years. A beet processing factory opened in <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/sterling-0"><strong>Sterling</strong></a> in 1905, and by 1910 sugar beets were planted on 5,352 acres in the county.</p> <p>The property that Henry bought in 1925 was formerly a ranch, so it needed plenty of work to become a farm. It already had a farmhouse, but Henry and his children had to construct a new barn, henhouse, granary, and other buildings. On the surrounding land they mainly grew sugar beets along with some alfalfa and oats for the draught horses and other livestock. Near the farmhouse, they planted a variety of trees to provide shade and fruit, including apple, cherry, <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/cottonwood-trees"><strong>cottonwood</strong></a>, hackberry, and mulberry. In 1939 the family built a garage to house tractors and other farm vehicles.</p> <p>Henry never remarried and worked the farm until his death in 1960. His son Henry married Lydia Korbe of Iliff, Colorado, in 1931, and the couple had two sons, Donald Henry and George Lavern. As demand for domestic sugar tapered off in the next few decades, the Debus farm began to diversify, adding corn and beef cattle. But the Debuses were still known as proficient sugar beet farmers; in 1944 the Great Western Sugar Company recognized Henry Debus Jr. as one of the top sugar beet producers in the Ovid/Proctor District.</p> <p>Henry Debus Jr. retired in 1972 after his son Donald bought the family farm for $60,000. Donald expanded the farm’s cattle and calf operation, increasing the number of head from 44 in 1980 to 134 in 2000. The farm also began producing more corn, even winning local awards for “Best Ears of Corn” from 1998 to 2001.</p> <p>In 2001, after more than seventy-five years of successful farming, the Debus family sold the farm to the Parker Water &amp; Sanitation District. The district began buying irrigated Logan County farmland in 2001 to generate extra income and ensure a future water supply for the town of Parker. The district leased the property, and the land continues to be farmed today. The farm site was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p> <h2>Today</h2> <p>Today the historic Debus farm is operated by tenants George O. and Rhonda Hernandez. It remains a legacy of the important contributions made by German Russian families to the agricultural development of Colorado.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/encyclopedia-staff" hreflang="und">Encyclopedia Staff</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/debus-farm" hreflang="en">debus farm</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/agricultural-history" hreflang="en">agricultural history</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/farming-colorado" hreflang="en">farming in colorado</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/logan-county" hreflang="en">logan county</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/german-russians" hreflang="en">German Russians</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/sugar-beet-industry" hreflang="en">sugar beet industry</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/henry-debus" hreflang="en">henry debus</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/debus-family" hreflang="en">debus family</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>Tim and Kris Hoehn, “<a href="https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/OAHP/NRSR/5LO565.pdf">Debus Farm</a>,” Colorado State Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 2005.</p> <p>Parker Water &amp; Sanitation District, <a href="http://www.pwsd.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/682">Board of Directors Meeting Agenda</a>, May 14, 2015.</p> <p>US Department of Agriculture, “Reports by states with statistics for counties California—D.C.,” US Census of Agriculture, vol. 6, part 1 (1910).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p>Candy Hamilton, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22Footprints%20in%20the%20Sugar:%20A%20History%20of%20the%20Great%20Western%20Sugar%20Company%20%22" title="Find in a library with WorldCat"><em>Footprints in the Sugar: A History of the Great Western Sugar Company </em></a>(Ontario, OR: Hamilton Bates, 2009).</p> <p>Dale Wells, <em>The Logan County Ledger</em>, ed. Nell Brown Propst (Logan County Historical Society, 1978).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Fri, 19 May 2017 16:35:18 +0000 yongli 2585 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org The Bee Family Farm http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/bee-family-farm <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Bee Family Farm</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE 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loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/Bee%20Media%201_0.jpg?itok=9NR7RfcG" width="299" height="450" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-wide" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> <h5><a href="/image/john-and-fanny-bee-children-arleigh-arthur-emma" rel="bookmark"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--image.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">John and Fanny Bee with children Arleigh, Arthur, Emma</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> </a></h5> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--image.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--body.html.twig x field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The family came to the Fort Collins area in 1882.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' 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addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/bee-family-farm" data-a2a-title="The Bee Family Farm"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fbee-family-farm&amp;title=The%20Bee%20Family%20Farm"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>The Bee Family Farm is a historic farm located between <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/fort-collins"><strong>Fort Collins</strong></a> and Wellington. In operation as a working farm since 1894, it is now an outdoor museum that preserves and displays the family’s historic artifacts, buildings, and fields to help visitors experience the history of farming in Northern Colorado.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>As urban growth continues along the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/front-range"><strong>Front Range</strong></a>, city and county planners aim to provide open space and buffers between growing communities. The area’s farm families must adapt to these new conditions in order to survive. But adapting to change has been a constant theme for many of these families, whose ancestors <a href="/article/homestead"><strong>homesteaded</strong></a> this land. The story of the Bee Family reflects the Anglo-American western migration and settlement of Colorado, as each generation has had to adapt to new economic conditions and develop new ways of managing the use of <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/water-colorado"><strong>water</strong></a> and land. The history of <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/irrigation-colorado"><strong>irrigation</strong></a>, the <strong><a href="/article/sugar-beet-industry">sugar beet industry</a></strong>, and livestock raising can all be traced through the history of the Bee Family Farm.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Family Origins</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>John Bee came to America with his family when he was nine years old in 1853. The family settled in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. At seventeen he went to Mills County, Iowa, and lived with one of five uncles who had settled there. He farmed and taught school in the winter, and in 1868 he married Fanny Cotton. John suffered from asthma, so in 1882 he moved his family to the dry <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-climate"><strong>climate</strong></a> of Colorado. The dry climate helped his health but made farming difficult. After developing his <a href="/article/homestead"><strong>homestead</strong></a> for five years, he rented an irrigated farm north of Fort Collins and moved there. In the meantime, Fanny’s sister Lizzie and her husband, Al Morse, moved to the <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/fort-collins"><strong>Fort Collins</strong></a> area. Morse raised horses and hired out to help build many of the irrigation canals and reservoirs in the area. In the beginning, several of the irrigation companies went bankrupt, causing economic hardships for their workers. The Morse family sold its homestead and was able to buy the present 160-acre Bee Farm in 1894, but hardship continued. Al Morse and the couple’s only child, Whitwill, passed away by 1899.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Growth</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>John and Fanny’s son Arleigh took over the farm for his Aunt Lizzie. In 1902 John and Fanny sold their homestead to the <strong>North Poudre Irrigation Company</strong> to be used as a reservoir site, and moved their home to Lizzie’s farm. Irrigation water finally arrived at the farm in 1905, making it possible to raise other crops besides small grains and grass hay.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>By 1903 Fort Collins had joined Loveland and <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/greeley"><strong>Greeley</strong></a> in building a sugar beet refining plant. The <a href="/article/great-western-sugar-company"><strong>Great Western</strong> <strong>Sugar Company</strong></a> had constructed railroads and built factories and with the irrigation system in place, the sugar beet industry was ready to grow. The Bees planted their first crop in 1905 and continued growing beets for most of the next 100 years. The cultivation of sugar beets was very labor intensive, as the crop had to be thinned, hoed, and harvested by hand. At various times German Russian families, Mexican migrants, and, during World War II, German prisoners of war<strong>, </strong>all worked on the farm. The sugar beets provided a degree of stability for the farm economy.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Arleigh continued to use horses for the farmwork and raised sheep during the 1920s and 1930s. The sheep ate sugar beet leaves and beet pulp, a by-product of the refining process. Most farms in the area fed 1,000 to 4,000 head of sheep each winter, which gave the Fort Collins area the title of “Lamb Feeding Capital of the World.” The Colorado Agricultural College (today <strong>Colorado State University</strong>) chose the ram as its mascot, and Fort Collins High School became the Lambkins. The Bee Farm raised sheep until World War II, when synthetic fabrics came into use.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Even with the reservoirs, irrigation water was not very reliable, so in 1910 Arleigh dug a well to supplement the ditch water. It was all dug by hand and lined with brick. The dry years of the 1930s increased the need for more dependable water, so the <a href="/article/colorado%e2%80%93big-thompson-project"><strong>Colorado–Big Thompson Project</strong> </a>was approved by Congress and was completed in the early 1950s. This gave Northern Colorado farmers a greater assurance that they would have the water they needed for their crops. It also assured a dependable domestic water source.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Arleigh’s son Francis graduated from the Colorado Agricultural College in 1939 and started farming with his father. He married Sylvia Saue in 1942, and they had seven children. Francis continued to irrigate with dirt ditches and furrow irrigation. He also saw many advances in farm technology. Before two of Francis’s sons joined the farming operation in 1971, concrete ditches with siphon tubes were put in to make the water use much more efficient. The farm transitioned to a center pivot sprinkler in 1997, becoming even more water efficient.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Preserving Agricultural History</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>As more land is developed and people continue to migrate to Colorado, the state has placed more emphasis on the preservation of agricultural history. In 1986, for example, Governor Dick Lamm and the state Department of Agriculture partnered with the Colorado Historical Society (now <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/history-colorado-colorado-historical-society"><strong>History Colorado</strong></a>) to create the Centennial Farm program, which helps to recognize and preserve historic farms and ranches. In 1994 the Colorado Department of Agriculture and the State Historical Fund awarded the Bee Family Farm the <strong>Centennial Farm Award</strong> for 100 years of family ownership. The farm was also placed on the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Registry of Historic Places</strong> in 2002.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>As regional land prices increased and the demand for water shifted from agricultural to domestic, the family decided to cease farming. It sold 140 acres of the farm to Colorado State University for the <strong>Agriculture Research Development and Education Center</strong>. A conservation easement with <a href="/article/larimer-county"><strong>Larimer County </strong></a>and the City of Fort Collins was granted in November of 2003. The easement will create a buffer between the town of Wellington and Fort Collins.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Because of the farm’s rich history and extensive collection of agricultural artifacts, the family retained ten acres and set up a nonprofit corporation to operate the Bee Family Centennial Farm Museum. The Farm Museum opened in 2008 and allows children and adults to visit the farm animals, view artifacts, and participate in activities centered around 1900s farm life. There are eight buildings with original furnishings or equipment, including the two-room homestead house, a home built in 1942, a garage, a milk barn, and a machine shed. Elementary school children enjoy activities such as grinding corn, milking a wooden cow, washing clothes on a scrub board, and throwing irrigation tubes. Visitors also turn out for the museum’s annual Vintage Base Ball Game in the spring and Pioneer Living Day in the fall. The mission of the museum is to teach visitors about the farming history of Northern Colorado in a traditional, engaging, and authentic way.</p>&#13; </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/harrison-elizabeth-bee" hreflang="und">Harrison, Elizabeth Bee </a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/centennial-farms" hreflang="en">Centennial Farms</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/bee-farm" hreflang="en">bee farm</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/bee-family" hreflang="en">bee family</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/sugar-beets" hreflang="en">sugar beets</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/agriculture" hreflang="en">agriculture</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/agricultural-history" hreflang="en">agricultural history</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>Harry and Arlene Ahlbrandt, <em>Wellington’s First 100 Years 1905–2005 Pictorial History Book</em> (Fort Collins, CO: Self-published, 2005).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Bee Family Archives, <a href="http://www.beefamilyfarm.com/">Bee Family Centennial Farm Museum</a>, Fort Collins, Colorado.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Candy Hamilton, <em>Footprints in the Sugar</em> (Ontario, OR: Hamilton Bates, 2009).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>History Colorado, “<a href="https://www.historycolorado.org/centennial-farms-ranches">Centennial Farms</a>,” n.d.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Andrew J. Morris, Ed., <em>The History of Larimer County, Colorado</em> (Dallas, TX: Curtis Media Corporation, 1985).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Adam Thomas, <em>Boxelder Pioneers: A History of the Bee Family and Their Farm</em> (CSU Department of History HY586, May 2001).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>The Wellington Heritage Writers, <em>History of Wellington, Colorado and The Boxelder Valley 1864–1996</em> (Fort Collins, Colorado: Vestige Press, 1996).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Ansel Watrous, <em>History of Larimer County Colorado</em> (Fort Collins, CO: Old Army Press, 1911).</p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p>Rocky Mountain PBS, <a href="https://video.rmpbs.org/video/2365913844/">"Centennial Farms,"</a> <em>Colorado Experience</em>, December 15, 2016.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Adam Thomas, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2s06PANH0">All Good Gifts: The Story of Bee Family Farm</a>, Part 1 of 2,” YouTube video, 9:13, posted by Historitecture, January 15, 2010.</p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:25:13 +0000 yongli 1123 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org