Support Our Work

Sprout City Farms is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and relies on donations to continue our vital work.

Your support helps create healthier, more resilient communities and enables us to:

• Grow affordable, healthy food for schools, neighborhoods, and beyond

• Donate food to community organizations and families in need

• Educate youth and adults about food and farming

• Preserve and beautify green spaces in urban neighborhoods

• Build community

Sprout City Farms accepts tax-deductible donations by check or credit card—you can make a one-time contribution or consider supporting our work year-round by becoming a Cultivator! Our federal tax ID is 35-2415295. Checks can be made out to ‘Sprout City Farms’ and sent to PO Box 7536 Denver, CO 80207. 

Monthly donors, aka Cultivators, receive special bonuses such as a quarterly newsletter with behind-the-scenes information about SCF, early ticket sales for our annual Night on the Farm events, early access to CSA share purchases, and Cultivator-exclusive events throughout the year.

If you have any questions, want assistance in setting up employer matching for your donations, or have corporate sponsorship connections, please contact our Development & Communications Manager, Brooks Hosfeld. He can be reached at brooks@sproutcityfarms.org.

There are many ways to support our work: choose the one that works for you, and thank you for your support!

Buy a Book for the DGS Farm Library!

As a part of our education programming, we are building an on-farm children’s library at the Denver Green School Community Farm! We are looking to create a space full of books about farming and nature with diverse representation, so that our students can read about nature while in nature!

Our primary teaching modality has been hands-on farming activities, but with the addition of this library, the students will now also visit a reading station when they come out to the farm. Please support our work by adding nature and food literacy books to our library collection.

Every donated book creates countless opportunities for students to have “aha” moments, create personal connections to the topics we are learning about, build a culture of belonging in nature, and foster love and care for nature. Plus you will be supporting one of our favorite local book stores in Denver, The Bookies. On behalf of our students and our community, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Year-End Giving for 2023!

Colorado Gives Day (December 5th) officially launched Sprout City Farms’ year-end giving campaign! Our community showed up and showed out to support SCF, and we raised 75% of our year-end goal in ONE DAY!

Sprout City Farms has a $10,000 goal to close out our 2023 budget - and you can help us close the gap!

Why is now such a good time to donate? We’re growing, in all senses of the word!

2023 marks a year of investing in our staff more than ever before! In 2021, we doubled the size of our staff, and 2022 was the first year that we were able to pay all of our farm interns. This year, we have expanded the roles of our Community Navigators to be full-time positions dedicated to year-round community outreach so that longtime residents of the neighborhoods we serve are maintaining ongoing conversation with our community members to ensure that Sprout City Farms is an effective and relevant resource.

We have also drastically increased our food access programming! Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we distributed 33% of our total harvest, but since 2020, we have been distributing over 55% of our harvest to food access programs (no-cost CSA shares, donation-based farm stands, Farm-to-Cafeteria programs, and food pantry donations). We allocated 57% of our harvest to food access programs in 2023!

Our expansion in recent years has been largely funded by grant opportunities, especially COVID-19 emergency relief funds that have dried up. These funds particularly made it possible for us to expand our food access work, education programming, community and staff support, and we want to maintain this level of support.

Our recent growth is not sustainable without your help. We are looking to go back to our roots of supporting our community through community support, rather than depending so heavily on unreliable grant funding.

We truly believe that it takes a village to raise a chard in both the farming and community sense. Our work is not possible without community support, and we invite you to take your involvement a step further by investing in the work we do. A more community-rooted local food system involves all of us!

After a big season of nourishing our community, you can nourish us in return by donating today!

Stolen SCF Truck Update - THANK YOU!!

In May 2022, our Sprout City Farms pickup truck was stolen! A pickup truck is essential to deliver produce to our food access partners and markets, and transport countless materials and tools between our farm sites in Denver, Lakewood, and Longmont.

Your help funded a replacement, and we have a new member of the Sprout City Farms family! With used car prices so high right now, we are so grateful that an anonymous community member was willing to sell us this '94 beauty for less than market rate. We will use it primarily in Longmont.

For yet another transportation celebration, Griselda was found and able to be restored to her former glory thanks to the amazing hard work from our local mechanics and some serious generosity from donor friends of SCF! Please give your business to Fed’s Automotive at Bruce Randolph & St Paul (Clayton neighborhood) when you need a mechanic, they are all in and genuinely care about their customers!

We could not have accessed and repaired either truck without your contributions. Thank you, community, for making it possible for us to continue to distribute food and more! Your ongoing support makes our wheels go 'round!

Other Ways to Support SCF!

Support Community Solar with SCF!

Our new partnership with Arcadia gives Sprout City Farms members the option to make your home — whether you rent or own — more sustainable with community solar!  As you know, last year we began building the farm at Jack's Solar Garden (a community solar project), so this idea is near and dear to our hearts! Simply sync your utility account to Arcadia, and they’ll connect you to a local solar farm here in Colorado. There’s nothing to install and no extra cost!  

You’ll join over 150,000 Arcadia members helping generate clean electricity for their communities--including Farmers Meg & Charles who have been paying their Xcel energy bills through Arcadia for years now and highly recommend it. 

Check your eligibility and sign up here! 

Bonus: You’ll receive a special welcome of $100 credit to your utility account, when you sign up using this special link. Plus, Sprout City Farms will receive a $50 donation for each household that signs up: it's win-win-win! (Feel free to share this link with your friends!)  
 
Now you can enjoy the environmental and economic benefits of solar without needing to install solar panels on your roof!

In-kind Wish List

If you’re looking for a way to donate material goods* to Sprout City Farms, we’re currently looking for the following items: