Grassroots Farmer’s Origins

2023 | The Foundation Year.

Website Built. Networking with local Urban Farmer’s of the Denver Metro Area and Front Range Colorado.

WATER SUN SOIL SUMMIT | Pueblo, Colorado - Healy Foundation

March 17, 2023 Farmer Chantae presents Grassroots Farmers start up during Pueblo Food Project’s Sun Soil Water Ag Summit. Grassroots Farmers took home a cash donation of $750.00 that funded their chicken tractor which will be raising chicks and ducklings in Spring 2024 to be an add onto their Community Supported Agriculture shares.

Farmer Chantae speaks at time stamp 53:49-1:10:40.

2024 | First Growing Year.

Starting with 1/16th of an acre in a suburb backyard. Converted a monoculture, bio-diverse depleted lawn into a rich bio-diverse, healthy microbsoil biome.

Partnered with Grow Food For People Coalition and Denver City Greenhouse.

Grassroots Farmers contributed 313.52 lbs went to IFCS and 922.85 lbs. went to Metrocaring totaling 1,236.37 lbs donated to food banks.

Recap: 1,344.28 lbs in the backyard farm, Harvest Haven site and 1,873.09 lbs at our larger site. Total weight of 3,217.37 lbs.

Second Site: Freedom Farm 2.5 acres

Total 2024 Growing Season weight:

3,217.37lbs

Grassroots Farmers grew in 19, 100 foot beds 28”-30” wide.

Land Restoration | Restore The Soil Microbes The Soil Creatures Are Hungry!

This was the wild west of a site!

We cleaned up a lot of plastic left over from the pervious farmers, drip tape, black plastic cover, tractor keys, rusty field knives, and many other treasures! Due to the use of heavy black plastic and top dressing, no compost put on in the 2023 season thus a Thistle Town was born.

We choose the West Upper half section, a.k.a. Thistle Town. The center and east laid fallow for this 2024 season.

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Land Restoration | Bring Animals Back To The Land Initiative:

Good Goatness! We hosted 28 goats, including Rosie & Daisy, our first pasture Mini Nubian dairy goats!

October 1st - October 28th 2024, the goats grazed down the field while fertilizing and tilling along the way.

Hoofs and Ladder Goat Grazing Business

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Achievement: Led by Farmer Chantae, Grassroots built their Joel Salatin’s model of rabbits on top, chickens on bottom.

Well, our gals flipped the switch to chickens on top, rabbits on bottom! They got personalities of their own.

Achievement: 1,873.09 lbs Grown in the 2024 Season.

2025 | Second Growing Year.

Grassroots Farmers Focused Solely on Land Restoration coupled with Farm Production at Freedom Farm, 2.5 Acre Site.

Grow Girl Organics took over the backyard farm, Harvest Haven. Three

Grassroots Farmers contributed 548.62 lbs. went to Uproot Colorado and ____ lbs. went to IFCS totaling ____ lbs. donated to food banks.

Total weight of 1,447.54 lbs at Freedom Farm, 2.5 acres.

Achievement: Launched First Farmer Land Access Program. 66.67%. Success Rate of Completion from participants completing the Annual program.

Achievement: First Grant Project with Under the Growing Tree awarded $6,962 from Jefferson County (double check proper name & link back to website / social media channels).

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Achievement: Second Grant Project with Uproot Colorado awarded $49,999 from City of Denver, La Paz location, one of three Tiny Home Micro-communities addressing homeless with transitional housing. This was over a year long grant project.

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Achievement: Bunny Yoga Denver Yoga Social link to their events calendar.

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2026 | Second Growing Year.

Grassroots Farmers is Focus Solely on Land Restoration coupled with Farm Production at the Backyard Farm Harvest Haven 1/16th of an Acre.

Freedom Farm, 2.5 Acre Site is the sanctuary of our 50 hens and 10 Therapy Bunnies.

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Learn More about our Ethical Breeding Practices : We provide a valuable gift to our rabbit community - strong, healthy breeders, multi-generational lineage vaccine free. We are focusing on Rex Standard and have one line of a hybird of Silver Fox and Rex Standard. The goal with this breeding program is genetics. To produce the best offspring dis-ease free, to live healthy long lives as family pet bunnies or breeder stock for backyard and urban sustainable growers and homesteaders.

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❌ NOT ❌ all eggs are created equal.

If you don’t have your own backyard chickens like I do here’s a quick breakdown to help you make the best choice next time you’re grocery shopping for eggs:

🐓**Cage-Free**

Cage-free hens live inside barns with space to walk around , but they *never go outside**. While better than cages, their environment is still confined.😢

🐓**FREE-RANGE** 

Free-range hens get some outdoor access, but it’s often **limited small spaces**. They can roam a bit, but outside time may vary. 🫣

🐓**PASTURE-RAISED**

Pasture-Raised is the gold standard! These hens live outside most of the day, foraging on **wide open pastures**. They enjoy sunlight, bugs, fresh air, leading to healthier, more dense nutritious eggs**. 🥰

We Are The LIVING Solution

This is the way to regenerative farming. It’s been proven time and time again. Our ancestors knew, held and kept this knowledge from one generation to another. What has happened?

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This is what Grassroots Farmers seva/gifts/supports/provides/supplies (which word is the right word?) to Mother Earth, to the Land, to Great Spirit, to God, to ourselves and to our communities.

💡**Fun-Fact** Pasture-Raised eggs typically have higher omega-3s and bright yellow-orange yolks thanks to the hens’ varied, natural diet. 

Photos of our hens.