Urban Agriculture
We work with our community to expand access to gardening and food production resources. Our Urban Agriculture team provides access to land, gardening supplies, and culturally relevant seeds and seedlings—as well as educational programs taught by community leaders. We believe in investing in the land and the people who tend it, while inspiring future generations to become food producers.
Our team is committed to rematriation and the return of the stolen lands we cultivate to the Native communities they belong to, including the Ute, Arapaho, Shoshone, Apache, and Cheyenne tribes.
Food Production
Our growing spaces help us fill the gap in stocking the Fresh Foods Market with important culturally specific foods that our community relies on. Our wide variety of growing practices demonstrates that we can grow nutritious, fresh foods in urban places like Denver.
Greenhouse
We’re proud to share 75% of our greenhouse space with community partners. In the remaining space, we grow food year-round for our Fresh Foods Market and nurture culturally relevant seedlings that we give out freely to our community in our Indoor Garden.
Greenhouse partners: Mo’Betta Green, Gardening With Chuck, Consumption Literacy Project, Grow Local Colorado, and Permatierra.
Patio & Sidewalk Gardens
On our patio and sidewalk gardens, we produce food for our youth programs, like Kidz in the Kitchen and Lettuce Be Kids. Anyone can harvest food from our sidewalk gardens to take home. We also grow plants to save their seeds, which hold climate knowledge for our region and can grow stronger each year. Many of those plants are culturally specific to communities actively experiencing genocide, and we return them to those communities because their growing spaces and seed banks are being destroyed.
Community Garden
The Humboldt Community Garden has 33 garden plots that are offered to local community members who have historically been denied access to land or are actively experiencing hunger. Anyone is welcome to compost in the garden or harvest food from our community-sharing plot (Plot #2). To inquire about available plots, please contact our Urban Agriculture team or fill out our form.
Indoor Garden
Visit our indoor garden during Fresh Foods Market hours to pick up free seeds and seedlings—plus tips for growing your own food at home on a variety of budgets. Located in our Welcome Center.
Classes & Workshops
Our community members lead nearly all of our classes, including our Gardening 101 series, Gardening with Chuck, and workshops on food as medicine, seed saving, beekeeping, and composting. All classes are free and open to everyone. Spanish interpretation is made available at nearly all our classes and additional languages can be made available upon request.
Gardening with Chuck: Garden Blues
Gardening with Chuck: Garden Blues
Now that the growing season is over, let's debrief. Come share what worked, what didn't, and what you learned this season.
Partnerships
Our movement towards long-term food sovereignty requires investing in future food producers and partnering with organizations that share a vision of a brighter, greener future. Our partners include the Black American West Museum & Heritage Center, Consumption Literacy Project, Ekar Farm, Girls Inc., Gardening with Chuck, Grow Local Colorado, International Rescue Committee, Mo’Betta Green, and Princess Gardens Worm Farm.
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Community gardeners
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Weekly indoor garden visitors
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Seedlings shared weekly
Contact the Team
Eve Hemingway
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Urban Agriculture Coordinator
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Ask me about seedling distribution, Humboldt community garden, or volunteering with Urban Agriculture.
Ewan Scribner
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Urban Agriculture Contractor
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Ask me about our Indoor Garden or how to grow food hydroponically at home.
Ashley Pearson
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Seasonal Gardener
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Ask me about our on-site food production program or our greenhouse partnerships.
