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Our mission is simple. To teach the next generation of being of service.

GrowWiser

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GrowWiser Principles:

Principle # 1:

Be of service to earth. To honor Mother Earth. To honor our lands. To honor our plants and animals. To honor one another. Respect the sovereignty dignity of each individual.

Principle # 2:

Honoring our heritage. Values are passed on from generation to generation. Let us be a positive example, shinning steadfast. Passing on the beauty of mankind of a helping hand. Representing Self pride, honesty and ethics; for we are the present embodiment of our ancestors.

2026 | Third Growing Year

  • Pole Bean Bed - Nitrogen Fixer

  • Garlic, Roots and Cucumber Beds | Pre-2026 Spring

  • Snow Pea & Garlic Beds Early 2026 Spring

  • Early Spring 2026 - Pruning Comfrey

  • Making Comfrey Tea

  • 44 Foot Beds | Pre-2026 Spring

  • Tomato Bed Trellis

  • Tomato and Pepper Beds early May

  • Basil Bed - Companion Plant to Tomatoes

2025 | Second Growing Year

  • Freedom Farm Beds June 2025

  • Greens Beds | Freedom Farm 2025

  • Baby Green Jimmy Nardellos

  • Freedom Farm | Pepper Harvest

  • Repurposing Pallets for a Harvest Shed

  • Freedom Farm | Building Harvest Shed

  • Week 9 | 2.5 Acre Site, Freedom Farm

  • Week 10 | 2.5 Acre Site, Freedom Farm

  • Garlic & Peas Beds | Freedom Farm 2.5 Acre Site

  • Golden Hour | Root Crops

  • Peppers & Tomatillos!

  • Peppers & Melon

  • Work Share Trade Mentorships

  • Food Grown in 2025 Season

  • Week 14 | 2025 Growing Season

2024 | First Growing Year

  • Backyard Farm Peppers & Eggplants

  • 2.5 Acre Site | Cabbages & Trellis

  • Cabbages

  • School Educational Program | Therapy Bunnies

  • Construction of Animal Shed

  • Predator Skirt

  • Construction Assembly of Rabbit Enclosures and Inside of Coop

  • Produce Share

  • Produce Share

  • Rescued Goat Rosie

  • Daisy | Rosie got a Friend!

  • Fall 2024 Goat Rotational Grazing | Fertilizing & Tilling Soil, Pasture Weed Mitigation

  • Ladders & Hooves Herd Joins Grassroots Farmers goats at 2.5 Acre Site to winterize the feild after the 2024 growing season.

  • Educational School Group teaching about Regenerative Agricultural Closed Loop Systems

  • Delicata Squash - super buttery with a nutty creamy flavor! YUM!

  • Backyard Harvest Haven

  • Produce Share

  • Jovial Concept Fall Festival

  • Weigh Harvest

  • Tomatoes & Eggplants

  • Tomatoes

  • Backyard Harvest Haven

  • Peppers & Eggplants

  • Serrano & Jalapeño Peppers

  • Beet Red

  • Backyard Harvest Haven | Making Beds Fall 2023

  • Backyard Harvest Haven | Beets Bed

  • Backyard Harvest Haven Beds

  • Companion Planting | Turnips with Peas

  • Backyard Harvest Haven | Chard & Kale

  • Backyard Harvest Haven | July 19th 2024

  • Peas

Grassroots Farmers | 2024 Season Highlights

  • Grow Where You’re Planted: Started on just 1/16 acre in a suburban backyard, transforming a depleted monoculture lawn into a thriving, biodiverse ecosystem with a healthy soil microbiome.

  • Community Partnerships: Collaborated with Grow Food For People Coalition and Denver City Greenhouse.

  • Food Donations: Donated 1,236.37 lbs. of fresh produce to local food banks:

    • IFCS: 313.52 lbs.

    • Metro Caring: 922.85 lbs.

  • Total 2024 Harvest: 3,217.37 lbs.

    • Backyard Harvest Haven Farm: 1,344.28 lbs.

    • 2.5 Acre Site, Freedom Farm: 1,873.09 lbs.

  • Freedom Farm: Cultivated 19 beds, each 100 feet long and 28–30 inches wide, across our 2.5-acre second site.

Land Restoration | Restore the Soil Microbes

  • Turning Thistle Town Into Opportunity: Reclaimed the upper western section of a neglected field for the 2024 growing season, leaving the center and eastern sections fallow.

  • Clean-Up & Restoration: Removed plastic waste, old drip tape, black plastic ground cover, rusty field knives, and other debris left behind by previous farmers.

  • Soil Health Challenges: Addressed a thistle-dominated field impacted by heavy plastic use and a lack of compost application in 2023.

Land Restoration | Bring Animals Back to the Land

  • Good Goatness! Hosted 28 goats, including Rosie and Daisy, our first pasture-raised Mini Nubian dairy goats.

  • Natural Land Management: From October 1–28, 2024, goats grazed the field, naturally fertilizing and working the soil with their hooves.

  • Hoofs and Ladder Goat Grazing: Connect with Lauren and Harmony’s goat-grazing business for services, educational videos, and contact information.

Farm Innovation | Chickens & Rabbits

  • A Joel Salatin-Inspired System: Led by Farmer Chantae, the team built a stacked rabbit-and-chicken housing system.

  • Grassroots Twist: Our resourceful farm gals flipped the traditional model—chickens on top, rabbits on the bottom!

  • Innovation With Personality: A creative, adaptable approach to integrated livestock management, shaped by the unique personalities of our animals.

2025 Land Restoration and Food Production at Freedom Farm

2.5 Acre Food Production coupled with La Paz Micro-Community Food Access Grant

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.

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).

Scope of Project: Build out Coolbot, educational program at school. **Fill in Details**

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.

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

2023 | The Foundation Year.

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 raised therapy bunnies, chicks and ducklings in Spring 2024 that add to our Community Supported Agriculture shares.

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

Land Restoration at the Backyard Farm

Harvest Haven 1/16th of an Acre Food Production

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

Schedule a Bunny Reiki Session Today Button : Link to Reiki page / check out with a calendar

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 hybrid 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.

Book Bunny Therapy!

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