Raise your hand if you look back on your middle school years fondly. Not many of us. I definitely don’t. Those years are so hard. Your body is changing, people are mean for no reason & you desperately want to be seen as the adult you think you are but all the adults seem to treat you like a kid who knows nothing. Agh! I happened into Manual’s middle school programming, due to some staff scheduling conflicts, a couple of years ago - and now you will be hard pressed to convince

SustainEd Farms has been featured in both 9news and Denver7.

On September 25th, 9news featured Denver Green School - Northfield's garden elective. This elective is run by Nick Zuschneid who works tirelessly to ensure that his students and those who attend Inspire Elementary have the best educational and production garden space.

Food waste is starting to become a problem. Companies often prefer to discard food rather than donate it to those in need. Companies have even called the police or fired staff who have taken food marked for the trash. Thankfully, there are mutual aid groups whose mission is to reclaim good food that was thrown out. They cook it and serve it to community members who are unhoused, and/or enjoy communal meals.

Gal Who Garden is a group of committed people and organizations who are working to increase the accessible green space in the Valverde neighborhood. This neighborhood suffers from the heat island effect, contaminated soil, waterways and polluted air. The ultimate goal is to not only increase the accessible green space but to also join the work being done to support a healthier neighborhood climate!

The McAuliffe International garden receives a lot of community attention and SEF is excited to share that there is a larger project in the works!

In early July the SEF team learned that we have an award winner among us! This was no real shock but rather exciting that this person was being recognized for their greatness. Who is that person you may be asking?

This blog serves as a landing spot for FAQs about the goats at DGSN/Inspire.

City Floral donated over 5,500 seedlings to SustainEd Farms this year and the Denver community is already eating some of the produce!

SustainEd Farms welcomes volunteers and shares insight as to what has been done so far this year!

The SEF team recently had their spring step back to reflect on how programming went and share their dreams for summer gardening.

April garden programming came and went in the blink of an eye. Somehow we are already two weeks in to what we refer to as our late spring...

City Floral and SustainEd Farms have partnered together. City Floral has donated seedlings, onions and garlic for us to plant at school gardens across Denver.

SustainEd Farms has entered into early spring programming and have seen 2,578 students thus far! Staff have been guiding students through a spinach observation and taste test in one rotation and then planting spinach and melon seeds in the next.

Monse, our Bilingual Program Coordinator, is entering their second year with SustainEd Farms. Every year we have gained more staffing...

For reporting and betterment of SustainEd Farms different forms of data and feedback are collected - sometimes that takes the form of a gift

The answer to "where does all of the food go once you harvest it?"

DSST Elevate High School intern teaches her friend how to identify cucumbers and zucchini.

In January, the city of Denver released the Denver Food Vision 2030   Progress Report for 2024. The Denver Food Vision was first...

Trying new foods can be scary or very off-putting to students. SEF introduced radishes to our students with the bonus of adding tajin.