During this holiday season, we wish you and yours blessings and peace.

Your year-end gift will make it possible to continue offering our programs to thousands of urban children and youth who do not have the opportunity to connect with nature and farm life.  The animals at TUF depend on the generosity of people like you for their feed and health needs.

TUF is a 501(c)3 organization and your contribution is tax deductible.  Because we qualify under the Denver Enterprise Zone, donations over $500 are eligible for a Colorado tax credit. You can send contributions to:  The Urban Farm 10200 Smith Road Denver, Colorado 80239 or you can make contributions through PayPal by going to the donation page at www.theurbanfarm.org.

Thank you again for your support.  We always say that The Farm speaks for itself – so we hope you will visit us in 2011 to see for yourself the little miracles that occur here each day.

The Folks at The Urban Farm

The Urban Farm 2010 Programs & Stats

Hello Farm Families and Supporters,

Click here for our holiday fundraising request and a fact sheet on our programs and statistics.  I hope you will open the files and read this information.  All donations are deeply appreciated  and many of you have given several times this year.

If you are so disposed, please share this email with family and friends who might be in a position to provide financial support to The Urban Farm.   Some employers match their employee’s contributions to nonprofits and may be supportive of the work we do here at TUF.  We can provide financial documentation and our IRS determination letter for interested contributors.

However you may be able to help The Farm, we are so grateful for your participation and for the opportunity to work with your children.

Have a wonderful holiday and see you in 2011.

Donna Garnett, Executive Director

Looking for a special present for the horse lover in your life?

Wondering what to do with your Embracing Horses rider during that long 6 week break?

Been thinking how fun it would be to have a few grown-up riding lessons?

We have just the riding package for you.

Donna Garnett and Tennie Bell of The Urban Farm are offering a

Holiday Riding Package Special

$180 for 4 lessons (must purchase by 12/24/10).

Private lessons offered for children and youth from the ages of 5 through 18 and adults.  Lessons are provided on our horses and ponies at The Urban Farm at Stapleton and are one hour in length. Tack is provided but students must provide their own SEI approved helmet.  Appropriate riding clothes and boots are highly recommended.  Both instructors are certified riding instructors.

Contact Donna Garnett at dmgdenver@yahoo.com or call 720-810-5475.

Contact Tennie Bell at tennie.1@netzero.com or call 303-548-5340.

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEA:

Now on SALE! While supplies last–you can buy a book, authored by a friend of The Urban Farm. Makes a GREAT gift for any animal lover!

Caring for our Companions, Heroes & Best Friends
A Collection of Columns from the Greely Tribune
by Misti Aas

Discounted Holiday Price: $9.95 (shipping and handling is extra)

Buy Now, through PayPal!

Click here to read more about the Girl Scouts recent visit to The Urban Farm.

Click here to schedule a group tour at The Urban Farm!

FARMFEST: SAVE THE DATE — September 18, local bands will play their music at The Urban Farm to raise money for TUF programs.  Gates open at 1:00 with activities for the kids; music is from 3:00 – 7:00.  Ticket prices range from $5 — $20, children under 5 are free. Silent auction items will include a Thanksgiving turkey, urban trail ride, birthday party at TUF, etc.  Contact austinsirus@yahoo.com for more information.  Bring your own lawn chair.

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4-H@TUF — Kids from the Urban Farm just finished Adams County Fair last week.  As in past years, we will take a break from 4H meetings for the remainder of the month of August.  The next 4H meeting will be September 9 from 5:45 – 7:00 pm.  This will be an end of the year meeting mostly focused on wrapping up Fair.  The first meeting of the new 4H year will be October 7 from 5:45 – 7:00 pm. :: Click here to view the 4-H Meeting Calendar

• Perennials (herbs, ornamental, fruit, vines) and spring bulbs.
• 1 ton or ¾ ton newer model, road-worthy pick-up truck with no more than 150,000 miles on it (must have a towing package and class 4 hitch).  Children and animals will be passengers in this vehicle.
• Larger tractor with implements (eg. bucket, snow plow, rototiller, mower, harrow, etc).
• Sheets of plywood to repair animal shelters.  Need 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch plywood.  No particle board please.

Springtime at The Urban Farm at Stapleton

Unbelievably, summer is quickly drawing to end.  From a farming perspective, that signifies that harvest is eminent.  This is the time of the year where hay is most plentiful, and can be purchased at the best price.   Thus, we are launching our 2nd annual “hay challenge” at The Urban Farm.

The hay challenge works this way: someone or some entity contributes a sum of money to be used for hay for the animals and challenges others to match some portion of the challenge.  A $3,000 challenge has been committed and so the fun begins.  The challenge is to match this sum within two weeks.

For the better part of 2010 we were paying $10.50 per bale of hay.  We have been working with a farmer in the Longmont area who has agreed to sell us an entire hay field to us for $5.00 per bale.  Do the math–this is less than half of what we paid last year.  The bales weigh about 75 pounds each and are high quality organically-grown hay.  A $100 donation buys 20 bales of hay – enough to feed all the TUF animals for one day.

Hope you will help us meet the challenge.  As always you can send checks or donate via Paypal:

And, of course, you can always designate your donation be used a different way.

Thank you very much for your support!

YOU ARE INVITED!

Come to an Open House at The Urban Farm at Stapleton

Saturday, May 8, 2010  10:00 a.m. – noon

10200 Smith Road, Denver, CO 80239
(1/4 mile west of intersection of Havana and Smith Road)

• Free Farm Tours (Meet the animals and learn about Feed Denver)
• Farm Market (Fresh eggs, organic salad greens, goat’s milk and cheese)
• Pony/Horse Rides (Suggested donation of $5 per ride to benefit
• The Urban Farm 4H club)
• Information on Summer Programs for Kids and Adults

Contact info@theurbanfarm.org for more information

This Summer at TUF:

Embracing Horses – Horsemanship Education classes for children 5 – 18 years. Beginner thru Advanced Levels, weekly evening classes or one week morning riding camps.

Storybook Farm — A farm experience designed especially for young children between the ages of 4 and 6 years.

I Want To Be A Farmer — This workshop is for the 7 – 10 year old who relishes wearing overalls and getting dirty, loves animals and growing things and goes gaga for tractors.

Agriculture in The City classes for grownups on Culinary Herbs as Healing Herbs, Keeping Chickens in the City, Introduction to Permaculture, Fiber Arts, and others.

Farm Tours – On most Saturday mornings, visitors can come by for a Farm Tour. A $5.00 donation per person over the age of 2 years is greatly appreciated.

Sleepover At The Farm – Kids 8 – 11 years old will enjoy this sunset to sunrise experience at TUF. Campers will listen to the coyotes, roast marshmallows around a campfire, tell “scary stories”, sleep out under the stars and have an early morning riding experience.

Summer Program for Young Children at The Urban Farm

Wondering what your kids can do all summer at The Urban Farm?   Children and youth can ride horses and learn how to care for them.  They can enjoy the experience of feeling freshly tilled earth or sitting on a log watching a couple of baby goats suckle from their momma then bounce away chasing imaginary butterflies.  They can sit under the shade of a tree and learn how to knit from a ball of yarn that they spun themselves.  Or, they can wander through the garden picking their own vegetables to eat for snack.  There is sleeping out under the stars after cooking hotdogs over a fire and experiencing that quivery feeling in the pit of their tummies from telling slightly scary stories and then hearing coyotes howl in the distance. They might give a miniature horse a bubble bath and learn how to make old-fashioned strawberry jam.

Sound like fun?  Then open the attachments and register your child in one or more summer activities today.  Space is very limited and registrations with payments are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

:: Click here to download form

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 • 1 pm – 3 pm

The following activities are free with gate admission:

Hay Rides

Fun with Farm Animals

Farm and Harvest Games

Paint the Farm Truck

and many more….

Activities are aimed at children 10 and under.

Gate Admission:

Children Under 2: Free

Adults and Children over 2: $5.00

Horse/Pony Rides: $5.00 / Per ride

Snacks and drinks available for purchase

Come enjoy the fun!

The Urban Farm is located at 10200 Smith Road,

just south of I-70 and west of Havana.

We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to teach agricultural and environmental education to urban youth and their families and your attendance helps support our program.

Don’t want an Art Lottery ticket?   We’re creating our own stimulus package!  Help us fight this recession by enjoying a fun, inexpensive night out.  Enjoy some great jazz, wine, good food and great company!  Ticket price now ****$20.00****!!

Tickets are available online at www.theurbanfarm.com or call Lisa at 303-501-9364
WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPT 26TH, 2009
WHERE: 200 SANTA FE DRIVE, DENVER, CO, 80223
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ART FOR THE ANIMALS is a Fundraiser to be held Saturday, September 26, 2009 at Denver Urban Homesteading.  All proceeds will help feed the animals at The Urban Farm. 

The Urban Farm is a 16-year old 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization providing direct programming for approximately 3,000 children a year to teach agricultural and environmental education to urban and at-risk youth and their families.  We do this by helping to create a sense of positive self-regard and self-reliance, a strong work ethic, and hope.  The underling value of The Urban Farm is that urban children will be exposed to the positive values of farm life-respect for the environment, appreciation for animals and plants, team spirit and the satisfaction of hard work leading to a job well done.  A side effect of The Urban Farm is that kids find a sense of belonging and independence, in short, a sense of community.

Don’t want an Art Lottery ticket? We’re creating our own stimulus package! Help us fight this recession by enjoying a fun, inexpensive night out. Enjoy some great jazz, wine, good food and great company! Ticket price now ****$20.00****!!

Tickets are available online at www.theurbanfarm.com or call Lisa at 303-501-9364

ART FOR THE ANIMALS is a Fundraiser to be held Saturday, September 26, 2009 at Denver Urban Homesteading. All proceeds will help feed the animals at The Urban Farm.

The Urban Farm is a 16-year old 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization providing direct programming for approximately 3,000 children a year to teach agricultural and environmental education to urban and at-risk youth and their families. We do this by helping to create a sense of positive self-regard and self-reliance, a strong work ethic, and hope. The underling value of The Urban Farm is that urban children will be exposed to the positive values of farm life-respect for the environment, appreciation for animals and plants, team spirit and the satisfaction of hard work leading to a job well done. A side effect of The Urban Farm is that kids find a sense of belonging and independence, in short, a sense of community.