The productive Subdistrict 1 of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District is also potato country for the San Luis Valley. We asked Del Norte-based photographer Ryan Michelle Scavo, aka Ry Outside, to spend a day in the potato fields as the harvest comes in. She also found the beautiful canola flower fields around the town of Center. Here’s her harvest pictorial.
Harvesters at work, east side of CR3 on CR 7 & 9
Loaded truck leaves a field.
Workers handle potatoes and remove debris at K&K Farms.
Workers at Mix farms.
Canola field on 112 west of Center.