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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

VISION FOR OUR NON PROFIT

Growing more urban farm gardens is our vision. This means that most of our land will be through land use agreements with others who support urban agriculture. At each location we will teach people to grow organic vegetables for garden plots or production farming and we will grow vegetables for sale to provide income for the non profit corporation. We will have workshops and connect with city agencies to help develop urban farming zoning and food system assessments. We are starting a steering committee to examine a facility in metro Denver to teach URBAN AGRICULTURE. We hope to find a community college who sees this great opportunity. This will include adult education for those who want to take an occasional course in growing for production. Barbara Moore is the leader for school education for Wheat Ridge Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Task Force. She is also going to be doing a PILOT PROJECT for urban agriculture with the city of Lakewood and Ralston House non profit. She will be having a year round community garden with garden plots and greenhouse at that facility. Again people will learn to grow and teach others. ORGANIC GROWING is our emphasis. We will sell produce to local restaurants and are selling at local Farmers Markets. Barbara is also volunteer coordinator with the Chat field Denver Botanic Garden Farm in Little ton. She is helping to bring Jefferson County students to the farm to learn about agriculture. The Harvest Mountain Community Garden at 4322 Xenon Street is helping the Head Start students in Wheat Ridge to learn about growing through donating Earth Boxes for the students to use and bringing them to the garden for garden parties. By end of 2011 the non profit will have four locations with over 10,000 sf of growing area.

2 comments:

  1. for more info on harvest mountain farm gardens go to FACEBOOK - Harvest Mountain Farm Gardens or to www.meetup.com/harvestmountain. Have 3 sites for farm gardens in Wheat Ridge, Lakewood and Brighton.

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  2. If you want a garden plot to learn to garden or farm we have 3 sites...4322 xenon street in wheat ridge, 1875 wadsworth ave lakewood and 1177 s 4th street in brighton co

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