City’s agriculture heritage being squeezed

BRIGHTON — As Sakata family members look out from their Sakata Farms operations center at the intersection of Bromley and 4th streets in Brighton — where their broccoli, onions, cabbage and corn arrive — they see development pushing in on them as increasing traffic makes it harder to get their trucks in and out.

“We can see the King Soopers on one side and the Wal-Mart (distribution center) on the other,” Joanna Sakata said. “But we don’t worry about them as much as we worry about worldwide competition for our products.”

As a point of reference, Bob Sakata started farming in Colorado…