Background Statement
Sprout City Farms is an urban agriculture nonprofit organization based in Denver, CO, started by a group of farmers, researchers, teachers, business leaders, and community members that came together in 2010 with a vision for increasing food access and community resiliency through farming underutilized urban land.
Since 2010, SCF has built four community farms in the Denver-metro area:
- Denver Green School Community Farm, a 1-acre organic vegetable farm started in 2011 in partnership with Denver Public Schools
- Mountair Park Community Farm, a 1.5-acre organic vegetable farm started in 2014 in partnership with the City of Lakewood,
- Dahlia Campus Farm, a 1-acre vegetable farm established in 2016 in partnership with Mental Health Center of Denver (now run by MHCD/WellPower),
- Farm at Jack's Solar Garden, a 5-acre agrivoltaics site that broke ground in April 2021 in Longmont, where we are growing produce under solar panels and working with researchers to study the results.
The farms serve as a platform for Healthy Food Access (over 55% of our total harvest is distributed to families experiencing food insecurity), Community Education and Farmer Training, and Youth Education. See "Programs" section below for more information!