5280: Denver’s Mag Features Miraflora

We are honored that 5280, Denver’s leading local magazine, recently featured Miraflora and our band of merry misfits, the alpaca. Journalist Shauna Farnell captured our farm, our mission, and our founders perfectly.

“When it comes to farming hemp plants, alpaca manure is as good as gold—at least that’s what Brent Facchinello, co-founder of Miraflora Naturals, an organic hemp farm in Boulder, says.

Located on the land of one Colorado’s oldest homesteads, Miraflora was founded in 2019 by a trio of Colorado natives—Facchinello, his cousin Christopher Wynne (a Papa John’s pizza franchise founder), and Kimberly Beekman—who, upon deciding that organic hemp would be their primary crop, wanted every element of its production to be as natural as possible….”

Click here to read the full story in 5280.