FrontLine Farming works at the meeting point of food, land, and justice on Colorado's Front Range. Led by women and people of color, we tend three farms across Denver and Arvada, growing food that nourishes our neighbors while building a future where communities of color hold the knowledge, land, and power to feed themselves.
Our communities carry the weight of decades of disinvestment: neighborhoods where nutritious, culturally relevant food is difficult to reach, farmers of color separated from land their families once stewarded, and foodways strained by displacement and time. FrontLine Farming meets each of these realities with action rather than sentiment. We distribute food to families who need it. We train and pay farmers of color building their own future in agriculture. We create space for elders and youth to reconnect with the crops and traditions that ground our communities. This is the work that runs through everything we build.
FrontLine Farming is dedicated to cultivating local food systems on the Front Range of Colorado. We work with community partners to develop and nurture local food networks, and support farmer leadership in food systems development. Through food production, land stewardship, education, and community collaboration, we work to create a thriving agricultural landscape and vibrant local economies.
FrontLine Farming was founded in December 2018, growing out of Urbiculture Community Farms, a Denver farm established in 2007 to bring affordable food to the city. That early work, including a partnership with Regis University supported by the Colorado Health Foundation, laid the foundation for what FrontLine Farming is today.
Farming remains our foundation. Across three farm plots on the Front Range, we grow high quality, organic food, pay our farmers fair wages, and get that food to the community through farm stands, restaurant sales, and nonprofit partners. We teach sustainable growing practices to people of every age, from toddlers to elders, and work alongside a growing network of Denver farmers who share our vision. Our strategy moves along three paths: food security, food justice, and food sovereignty, with sovereignty as the horizon we're working toward.
Organization name
FrontLine Farming
2018
Tax id (EIN)
83-3496361
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Education, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Environment, Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations, Public & Societal Benefit, Youth Development
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
2830 N CLAYTON STDenver, CO, US
Jefferson County, CO, US
Aurora, CO, US