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Feed Denver is a Regional Training Center and Model Farm.  We have partnered
with Will Allen and Growing Power in Milwaukee as a Regional Outreach Training
Center (ROTC).  The vision for a Growing Power ROTC is to provide Growing
Power’s technical training support at a regional level:  

Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are        
equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure
community at a time.

Being a Growing Power ROTC, Feed Denver will host “From the Ground Up” type
workshops for the region and will receive support to plan and develop a
Community Food Systems project inspired by Growing Power's Community Food
Center and Projects.

ROTC components:
  • Provide workshops and education;
  • Create green jobs;
  • Provide improvements to the environmental health
   of the area;
  • Grow compost soil and worms for community
   projects/residents;
  • House and operate working aquaponics systems;
  • Develop other programs and initiatives that move community food systems
    forward;
  • Host Growing Power “From the Ground Up" trainings.
"2009 From the Ground Up" Workshop Weekend
featuring MacArthur Fellow Will Allen
and the Growing Power Regional Outreach Team
It was a great weekend!
It was a great weekend!  We had over 100 participants for the workshop and
100 students for the youth event.  Will Allen and his team inspired us all as they
showed us what it's all about!  

Even though we had a blizzard that weekend everyone still showed up...even
the second day!  We learned about the importance of food production in cities
and how urban agriculture can impact a community.  We created large scale
composting systems with a worm depository and built a hoop house and
aquaculture structure.  We also learned about bees in the city, chickens and
eggs, and made goat cheese. We had an amazing panel discussion by
professionals working in all areas of planning and developing about the growth
of agricultural uses in cities.  
But, probably best of all, we met an amazing array of individuals doing amazing
things all over Denver, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Region and beyond.  
Please
support our
efforts
Will telling us about his work
Building a hoophouse in the snow.
Lisa Rogers, Feed Denver;
Will Allen, Growing Power;
Donna Garnett, The Urban
Farm at Stapleton