Feed Denver's Second Annual
| Keynote: Will Allen
Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Will is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. Feed Denver was chosen by Will Allen to be a Growing Power Regional Training Center in 2009. Read more.
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Keynote: Gary Nabhan
Food Justice in the Face of Climate Change: Resilience through Cultural and Biological Diversity
Food justice hinges on creating stronger linkages between food producers and consumers, especially in places where one or the other have been historically marginalized. True food justice gives equal attention to farmers, ranchers, urban gardeners, gleaners, truckers, home cooks, school children, elderlies and the homeless through building a more cohesive food community. Read more.
Food justice hinges on creating stronger linkages between food producers and consumers, especially in places where one or the other have been historically marginalized. True food justice gives equal attention to farmers, ranchers, urban gardeners, gleaners, truckers, home cooks, school children, elderlies and the homeless through building a more cohesive food community. Read more.
InPower Week - March 26 - 31
It begins with your circle of influence. What is your reach in your community. Join us in celebrating the power in you, the power in community. It's all about being local.
LOCAL CONVERSATION: TALKS, ARTS, AND FILMS.
From March 26-30th the week's events will include
| LOCAL MOVEMENT:
SATURDAY, MARCH 31ST, 9 AM
INPOWER 5K NEIGHBORHOOD RUN/ROLL/STROLL 5K Explore the vibrant central Denver communities of the Greater Five Points neighborhoods including Ballpark, RINO, Upper Larimer, Curtis Park, and Welton Business District. See new sights, keep fit, and support food security through the projects of Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets. | LOCAL CELEBRATION:
SATURDAY, MARCH 31ST, 10-7
URBAN STREET FAIR AT SUSTAINABILITY PARK This first fair of the spring season will be hosted at Denver's Sustainability Park, home to farmers and renewable energy pioneers in the center of the Greater Five Points neighborhood surrounded by Curtis Park, Upper Larimer, RINO, Ball Park and Welton Business District. Join artists and characters, musicians and mommies, community leaders and community creators. This street fair will host local food, local art, local business, local music and local fun. Explore the neighborhood businesses through a scavenger hunt roll & stroll. Enjoy acoustic music stage provided by Bands for Lands and artisan foods and beer tent. Learn about your local organizations and businesses. All of this while supporting the future of food through Feed Denver programs. | LOCAL SOUNDS:
SAT, MARCH 31ST, 7 - LATE LOCAL MUSIC SHOWCASE Support local food movement while hearing some great local bands at venues throughout the Greater Five Points neighborhood. More information coming soon. Hope to see you there! |
Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets inspires creative and successful urban agribusiness. Imagine farms in the city where people come to learn how to grow fresh food at high altitude, gain hands-on job training, and develop entrepreneurial skills that open avenues to self-sufficiency. Our farm-based training improves not only access to food, but develops economic opportunity and employment. Our farms are a diverse network of local fresh food production and direct markets, an incubation program for multi-cultural urban farmers and value-added producers, a regional research and training center, and host to courses and workshops, as well as a series of annual urban farming events.
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