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A life from the land: Ranchers of color, now and in the past, make marks in Colorado

More than 69,000 agriculture producers work on Colorado farms, and around 67,400 identify as white

Emma Brown lets a horse out to pasture at her horse training and boarding business EB Outdoors, located at Windy Creek Ranch in Longmont on May 16, 2023. Brown rents space for her business at the Windy Creek Ranch where she currently has a handful of employees, more than two dozen horses, five new training steers and her dog. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Emma Brown lets a horse out to pasture at her horse training and boarding business EB Outdoors, located at Windy Creek Ranch in Longmont on May 16, 2023. Brown rents space for her business at the Windy Creek Ranch where she currently has a handful of employees, more than two dozen horses, five new training steers and her dog. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | The Denver Post
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Colorado agriculture is still dominated by white men. But women and people of color continue to build on what is a fairly rich – though sometimes obscure – history of farming, ranching and homesteading in the state.
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