As Feed Denver explores techniques and strategies for farming in the City of Denver we have created prototype model farms.  These farms allow us to research the variety of ways that food can be produced, processed, and marketed.  We conduct trials which explore specific plants like heirloom beans and tomatoes and melons.  We also trial techniques from bio-intensive to biodynamic to organic. 
We choose to locate our farms along the I-70 Food Desert Corridor where we can offer urban agriculture job training, work experience programs, and make fresh food available in these communities through our farm markets.

It's not surprising that the communities along highways are often overlooked, underserved, and become food deserts.   Individual and family income and mobility in these neighborhoods drop as the freeway speeds blindly by.  You will find our farms are along the I-70 Food Desert Corridor.  

Our Parking Lot Farm is just south of  the truck stop at the Vallejo/Steele exit.  The community is surrounded by industrial areas, train tracks, truck stops, and fast food.  (Jiroquoa videotapes this community above.) Our newest farm is in the Sunnyside Neighborhood at 44th Avenue and Vallejo Street just off the Pecos exit.  This area was actually farming land before post war urban creep took it over.  

With our team of New American Farmers we have built a farm on an abandoned gas station lot and now we are growing fresh vegetables.  Since early June the farm has taken shape.  The beds are solid and the the harvest is building each week.

Fresh vegetable market and programs have begun on Wednesday evenings and will continue while there is produce.  Feel free to drop by if you're in the neighborhood.  Pick up a few squash or tomatoes, some basil for pesto, or lemon balm for tea.  If we're there we're open for business.  Learn More

Hey Joni Mitchell!  We took that parking lot and turned it into paradise again!  Beep! Beep!  Now it grows food, supports farmers and provides a fresh vegetable market  for the neighborhood!

The beds are strong and the plants are taking over once more.  Herbs and tomatoes, squash and corn.  Our markets have begun.  We'll be there each Thursday evening while there is produce so stop by if you're around...we'll be happy to sell you some fresh produce grown in your own neighborhood!  Learn more

Some of the first people displaced by disaster, war, and violence around the world are farmers. These farmers often find themselves relocated to urban areas without understanding the local language or culture but hoping for a better future.  

After up to 20 years in a refugee camp in Nepal, these folks have been resettled in Denver.  Feed Denver partners with local refugee services agencies to provide work experience training for recent refugee arrivals to Denver.  

We provide American job aculturation while teaching urban farming skills.  As with the immigrants of past centuries, these farmers are the future urban farmers of America.  Learn more

There's something interesting happening between architects and farmers.  From the Univerisity of Colorado at Denver Architecture Design/Build Class to Architecture for Humanity of Denver, the conversation about localizing food we've been having at Feed Denver has attracted the attention of the design and planning worlds. 

Our first growing structure prototype will be built at Denver Housing Authority's Sustainability Park beginning in August.  This has developed through the collaboration of Feed Denver, Architecture for Humanity, TurnKey Aquaponics, and others.    Learn more