Welcome to Our Community Newsletter!

Visit our website to learn more about DenverFarmer.com

About "The Urban Way"

In this online newsletter/blog you'll have a chance to learn about DenverFarmer.com, the produce we grow and our philosophy concerning growing good tasting, nutritional, fresh Farm to

Table food. Our newsletter and our blog are opportunities to reach out to the community. We want to communicate not just a marketing message, but useful information that you can use on a daily basis to enrich you and your family's life.

We'll share how we do what we do

Our methods of growing are totally transparent and we think everyone should know the environment from which their foods comes. We think that you have a right to know what kind of methods were used growing the food you feed to your family. We think you have the right to know whether the produce you buy was grown in soil or hydroponically. We think you have the right to know if the seeds for the food you eat are heirloom, hybrid, or Genetically Modified. Finally, we believe that you have the right to purchase sustainable, locally grown, fresh vegetables and herbs year round.

Our mission and our promise is to give you an alternative to GMO foods produced with chemical assistance, harvested before ripe, and then shipped thousands of miles before it ever hits you local grocery store. We know it makes a difference in our lives and we want you and your family to experience the excellent taste and nutritional value of the foods we grow.

Kid Friendly

We believe children should learn how the food they eat is grown. Throughout the summer of 2015, we encourage parents to bring their children to tour our farm. We'll let them get right in the gardens and let them choose and harvest their own veggies. They can visit our grow lab and see our Aquaponic System that uses a complete bio-system to develop and test produce varieties we grow at the farm. Our tank filled with over 50 Tilapia, Yellow Perch, and Channel Catfish is a big winner with the little ones. We'll give them a chance to feed the fish while explaining how the cycle of life helps us choose the we grow.

While you're here with your children, make sure you ask for one of our complimentary Coloring Pages and Crayons. These pages have been specially designed to let your children take the DenverFarmer.com experience home! For older children, make sure to ask for one of our special Mammoth Sunflower Grow Kits. This is a fun summer project that will allow a child to grow a sunflower that can potentially reach the height of over 12 feet (not to mention a whole host of tasty seeds)!

Our farm dogs Simon and Kindra are friendly and love the little ones, but they do have the run of the place. If you bring your pets with you, or are uncomfortable with the dogs, let us know and we'll give them chance to take a snooze in the house.

Want to Start Your Own Garden?

In The Urban Way Newsletter, we'll share with you garden tips that apply to living in Colorado. We have thousands of resources that we research on a daily basis, our plan is to share the most pertinent ones with our subscribers. We're going to have some fun with this, we plan to do an entire series of short, entertaining videos about growing, building and eating. View these videos through our newsletter, our blog, or on our YouTube Channel. Here is a link to an example of one of our YouTube videos (most will be better, we were just playing around with this one). Click on image:

Watch Us Grow

Through the newsletter and our blog we want you to see our growth as a farm. We are converting our entire Wheat Ridge location into an Urban Farm. The lawn is gone, and in its place will be lush raised bed gardens capable of producing thousands of pounds of vegetable and herbs. The addition of a 600 square foot four season Hydroponic Greenhouse will allow us to grow year round.

As things evolve here we want you show you the hard work that we are doing to give you an alternative to buying produce from unknown sources. Come by and see our progress or just watch it happen on our website and newsletter, We believe you'll be impressed with the transformation!

And Finally...

We are a local small business. We will use the newsletter to keep you updated on what produce is ready for harvest and for sale. We'll include special offers only available to subscribers. We'll be adding information about sales at the farm, upcoming farmers markets, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share opportunities. Giving you all the information you need to reap what we've sown.

So join us! Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Subscribe to our newsletters. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Add us to your Google + Circles. We are changing the way we live, let us help you change the way you eat!

Sincerely,

Brad and Sally Wicks