THE MANY WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT FEED DENVER AND LOCAL FOOD ACCESS

This is a big project and an important one!  Join us in making it a reality.

Creating a model urban farm and training center is not an easy thing to do but we are blessed with a crew of dedicated volunteers and angels assisting with everything from composting to building beds, event planning to grant writing, and seed selection to seed funding.  There are many ways you, too, can help Feed Denver. Here are just a few suggestions:

Your donations
at work:

$10 buys warm gloves for winter farming
$25 can provide one hour of English classes for our New American refugee farmers
$50 provides materials for winter crop covers for our beds
$90 buys fifty hanging pots to increase our vertical farming reach
$150 purchases a self-guided ESL software program for our New American refugees program
$200 provides a community member scholarship to one of our urban farming workshops
$500 sends one of our urban farmers in training to a Growing Power hands-on weekend workshop in Milwaukee
$2,000 will build a mobile hoophouse which can increase production three fold and make it year round.

Your tax-deductible donation will help fertilize Feed Denver.  It is your support that keep our programs nutrient rich!

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We all understand how important local food production is, not only to our health but to our economy.  BUT where will all those new farmers come from? At Feed Denver we are training urban farmers.

In Colorado we are only producing 0.1% (yes, that's POINT one percent!) of the food we eat. That's a pretty scary number! I have another number for you: 5.7. We spend $5.7 billion on food each year in Metro Denver. In the middle of this recession we are sending all that money outside of our city and state and economy...a city, state, and economy that is struggling with unemployment and fresh food access issues.  We need to be thinking of how we can pull these issues together...food, farming, jobs in the city. Is this starting to sound interesting?

Feed Denver grows urban agriculture one seed, one farm, and one farmer at a time. We are not only creating urban farms to explore and research how it can be done, but we are training farmers along the way. These are the future farmers of America.

Our farmers love their work!

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Our farmers are women and young people, refugees and immigrants, senior citizens and mothers. The best way to create healthy fresh food access for the children in our cities is to provide jobs in the fresh food growing industry in our own community.

"Now that the Parking Lot Farm is here, I don’t want the work to end with the season. We are coming up with new ideas and plans to keep the farm going, and the community is behind us all the way!"
Paula Thompson, Community Steward, 42nd & Steele Parking Lot Farm

Join the Good Food Revolution: Volunteer with Feed Denver

Feed Denver is dedicated to strengthening and securing Denver’s Urban Agriculture food systems and helping transform Denver into a green, sustainable, and productive city with thriving communities and fresh, delicious, local food sources. 

Interns  and volunteers play a key role in assisting in the creation and operation of our model farms and urban agriculture regional training.  Our work provides the City of Denver stakeholders - citizens and leaders – with the knowledge and tools necessary to make Denver a leader in the sustainable foodshed movement.

We are seeking individuals who want to build their work experience and:Gain in-depth knowledge of urban agriculture and the sustainable foodshed movement - which includes healthy food access, environment, labor, and small scale urban farming issues.  Make a critical and measurable impact on these issues by leveraging the wave of public support for urban farming and the creation of a sustainable foodshed.
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