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                                                             the bees a good new home and you will be supporting our market. 

                                                      JOIN OUR BACKYARD POLLINATION SERVICE/COMMUNITY HONEY                          PROJECT Click on the Bees & Honey tab or call 303  572-3122

 

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MARKET HOURS: THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 3-7PM; SATURDAY 9AM - 3PM.  All of the farmers come to the Saturday market; they are working during the week but  we can still sell you their products!

1. Baby pet pig sold at Chicken Swap.

2. Our source of local, natural fiber for spinning: two Angora rabbits who enjoy our backyard (one of them eating organic wheatgrass from the market).

3. Market assistant Stephanie promoting Aiko Pops, gourmet popsicles for sale at the market.

4. Windsor Dairy's Shannon distributing their raw milk.

 

The next chicken swap will be June 2, 2012 from 10-12 Noon at Earthdog Denver, 370 Kalamath Street, Denver.   Buy chicks from our local/backyard farmers.  They also sell adult hens, rabbits, quail, turkeys, ducks and goats.  See the Chickens page.   The next Chicken Recycling day is Monday, May 7, 2012.  See the Chickens Page.

 

OUR SPRING GROWING & PLANTING SALE SCHEDULE

April 5-7:  Irina’s raspberry plants, strawberry plants and black currant plants arrive at market

April 12-14: Seed potatoes arrive: Yukon Gold, Russet, German Butterball, Purple Peruvian Fingerlings

April 19-21: Grapevines arrive.  These are wine grapes for anyone wishing to join the Community Wine Project (see Wine Project tab on our website)

April 21, 2-430:  Seed and Plant Swap:  Buy and sell, meet master gardeners, a seed company rep, private horticulturalist

Already in stock: Heirloom seeds, 20% vinegar, compost teas, organic soils and amendments, growing containers, chicken feeders and waterers, diatomaceous earth.

Just arrived! Beekeeping equipment!  Hives, supers, smokers, suits.  The works

 

URBAN HOMESTEADING CLASSES FOR SPRING ARE NOW POSTED ON THE CLASSES/EVENTS PAGE.  Also we have another Seed and Plant Swap coming up on April 21 which is posted on the Classes/Events page and where you can meet master gardeners, a seed company rep, and other seed and growing experts and buy/sell/trade heirloom and organic seeds.

 

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Our Chicken Swaps appeal to everyone.

LIVE HONEYBEES!   Sold here to our customers.  Our new beekeeping supply store has all the equipment necessary for beekeeping.  Click on the "Bees and Honey" tab on the left for more information.

NATURAL GARDENING SUPPLIES/HEIRLOOM SEEDS NOW IN STOCK!

DENVER URBAN HOMESTEADING, Local Market (click for video)  is an urban agricultural center near Downtown Denver in a large commercial-industrial building at 200 Santa Fe Drive, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Santa Fe Drive.  Click here to watch interviews with our local farmers.

Our goal is to promote agricultural activities in the Denver metropolitan area for a variety of reasons.  First, for sustainability, i.e. renewing and preserving our energy and resources.  Second, for growing and raising our own quality food and getting in touch with food sources.  Third, for energy conservation.  Fourth, for fun.  Growing vegetables is fun.  Raising food-producing animals is fun.  Fifth, because a chicken living in your backyard and playing with a child is probably living a happier life than a chicken living on a factory farm.

We are not a big company, we are not a supermarket and we are not part of the industrial-agricultural complex.  If you want local food, quality food, the ability to connect with farmers and neighbors and even get lower prices than supermarkets (yes, we are lower on many items), then c'mon in.

Denver Urban Homesteading is an earth market and part of the DIY (do it yourself) movement.  An earth market contains local producers using environmentally sound and sustainable growing/making methods, preserving the local food culture and helping improve biodiversity.  The producers offer food directly to consumers at reasonable prices.  The marketplace is a social meeting hub and a place where consumers can get education about food-producing practices, nutrition and sustainable agriculture from the producers and from classes offered by the market. 

Urban homesteading classes/Agriculture education

Classes on raising backyard chickens, dairy and fiber goats, vegetable gardening, canning.  

 

Local Farmers' Market - Now open!

This market is open every Saturday from 9-3 and it sells high-quality, local* foodstuffs.   Come and meet the farmers!  We want to strengthen the bond between farmers and consumers.  We want you to know where your food comes from and who grows or makes it.  Many of these local foods are organic.  We accept Mastercard, Visa and SNAP (food stamps).

 

Local Fibers/crafts/spinning and knitting

We plan to offer for sale local fibers: wool from sheep, alpaca, llama, goat and rabbit.  We seek donations of old spinning wheels or parts of spinning wheels that we can refurbish.

*Note that "local" varies depending on the product.  Most of our foods come from a 100 mile radius, but some come from greater distances because they are not produced nearby.).

James and Irina Bertini

james@denverurbanhomesteading.com

303 572-3122 Note this is our home number.  We have no phone at the market.  So if you call us on Saturday, you won't get us because we're at the market.

Our Location (click for a map): 200 Santa Fe Dr. Denver, CO 

Hours: Thu and Fri 3-7 and Sat 9-3 (when all the farmers come)

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Last updated: 04/23/12.