Sprout City Farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and partners that nourish, and are nourished by, our surrounding communities.
Your generous donations helps create healthier, more resilient communities and enables us to:
build community: $50 supports a community member stipend to attend a meeting or teach a workshop;
impact food security: $75 supports a low-income household with one week's share of veggies, fruit, and eggs delivered to their home (all at no cost);
educate youth about food systems and farming and grow the next generation of farmers through internship and apprenticeship positions: $100 supports a day for a youth intern, now paid opportunities at all our farms!!
Sprout City Farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. We envision a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and partners that nourish, and are nourished by, our surrounding communities.
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!
Organization name
Sprout City Farms
other names
SCF
2010
Tax id (EIN)
35-2415295
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Education, Youth Development, Employment, Environment, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Human Services
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
PO Box 7536Other
6700 E. Virginia AveOther
5620 W. 14th AveDenver County, CO, US
Jefferson County, CO, US
Boulder County, CO, US