The Community Roots model, converts yards into gardens with the practices of small plot intensive farming. Residents receive a share of the produce and the rest is sold to the community through a CSA or farmers’ market. Together we are looking for suitable sites in the neighborhood. To begin we need 5 plots of 750 to 1000 square ft. with good solar exposure. If you have or know of a good site please read and fill out or pass along the application and e-mail it to Steve Morgan at steve.p.morgan(at)hotmail.com or 303-258-0557, our neighborhood Community Roots leader. Steve can also help you find other ways to get involved, which include volunteering, loaning gardening tools, or joining our gardening club.

The Newlands neighborhood carbon reduction committee, Greenlands, has identified a neighborhood food project as one of our goals to reduce carbon emissions as a neighborhood. Food production and distribution account for up to one third of our carbon footprint. Organically produced and locally grown food greatly reduces these carbon emissions. As oil costs rise and our society approaches a potential decline in oil availability, we may be required to produce more of our food locally. Urban food production takes time to learn and develop. By starting now we hope to contribute to our community’s long term health and food security. It is for these reasons that we have requested Community Roots to help us begin a neighborhood food project.