The Urban Farm Hay Challenge 2011

Thankfully, this hot summer is quickly drawing to an 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 3nd 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 the challenge.  For example, ABC company donates $500 to the hay challenge and issues a challenge to their employees or their sub-contractors to match the challenge within 48 hours. Or, a family can put up a challenge donation, of say, $100 and send out challenges to family members and friends to double the amount by the end of the week.  It is a great way to get lots of new people interested in TUF. Your personal story helps to increase the donations.  All the proceeds go to purchase hay for TUF animals this fall.  Last year we raised over $7,000!

Timing is everything — because Fall is the best time to get hay for $5 per bale.  The rancher we work with will sell us as much hay as we can buy for the $5 price. By winter, the cost of hay zooms to almost $10 per bale of hay.  The more hay we can put into our barn this fall, the less hay we have to buy when the price goes up.

Hope you will help us meet the hay challenge.  Start the ball rolling today by making a donation and then issuing the challenge to some group of people or organizations that you think will match it.  Forward any challenges that you send out to info@theurbanfarm.org so that we can keep a running tab on the challenges.

As always you can send checks or donate via the Paypal button on our website (www.theurbanfarm.org).  Of course, you can always designate your donation be used a different way.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW, THROUGH PAYPAL!!!

OR, please include this donation form with your check or cut and paste and email back to info@theurbanfarm.org if you choose not to donate through Paypal:

THE URBAN FARM 3RD ANNUAL END OF SUMMER HAY CHALLENGE

Contributor’s Name ______________________________________________

Mailing Address __________________________________Zipcode ________

Email Address ________________________________________________

Amount Contributed _______________________________________________
Matching challenge issued and to whom:

THE URBAN FARM 3RD ANNUAL END OF SUMMER HAY CHALLENGE

(Please include this donation form with your check or cut and paste and email back to info@theurbanfarm.org if you donate through Paypal.

Contributor’s Name ________________________________________________________

Mailing Address ____________________________________________Zipcode ________

Email Address ____________________________________________________________

Amount contributed ________________________________________________________
Matching challenge issued and to whom:

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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!

RESCHEDULED OPEN HOUSE AT TUF –  Saturday, June 26  10 – noon (free tours).  $5.00 horse rides for the kids (4H Fundraiser); bouncing castle; Feed Denver farm market, magical worm juice, compost for sale.

RESCHEDULED 4H Club Fundraiser – Saturday, July 3  5:00 – 8:00 pm  Hazel Miller Band Concert at Stapleton Founders Green – The 4H kids will be selling concessions.  All concession proceeds will help with 4H expenses at county Fair in August.

GARDEN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – If you enjoy gardening, feel satisfied endlessly pulling weeds, enjoy planting seedlings and transplants, don’t mind getting wet from watering veggies, then we have the perfect volunteer job for you this summer.  Call Donna at 720-810-5475 or send email to dmgdenver@yahoo,ocm.

4-H Monthly Meeting — Thursday, June 17 — 5:45 – 7:00 pm.

4-H Fair Meeting – Tuesday, June 29 -  5:30 – 6:30  All Fair participants  must attend to finalize Fair forms.

Kitten and Baby Bunnies need good homes!  We have 5 show quality meat rabbits for sale (you don’t have to eat them they also make exceptional pets.  They need to be re-homed immediately (re-homing fee = $25).  Ten week old grey male kitten – well socialized and litter box trained – needs loving family.  Re-homing fee is $20.  Call Donna today at 720-810-5475.

4-H Project Meetings  — Day                                 Project                                Time                                    Leader
3rd Tuesday                        Goats and Sheep               4:30 – 6:00                         Meri
3rd Thursday                       Goats and Sheep               4:30 –6:00                          Meri

GENERAL MEETING 5:45 – 7:00                         All 4H Members
4th Tuesday                        Goats and Sheep               4:30 – 6:00                         Meri
Poultry                                4:30 – 5:30                         Donna
4th Thursday                       Goats and Sheep               4:30 – 6:00                         Meri
Swine                                  5:30 – 6:30                         Khadija and Stephan
Breeding Goats                 4:30 – 5:30                         Leda
Growing Good Food        5:00 – 6:00                         Kim
Cloverbuds                         4:30 – 5:30                         Lisa
4th Saturday                       Poultry                                10:15 – 11:30                    Donna
5th Tuesday                        Fair Meeting                      5:30 – 6:30                        All Fair Participants

“From the Ground Up” Workshop Weekend

FEATURING

MacArthur Fellow, Will Allen &
The Growing Power Regional Outreach Training Team
November 14-15, 2009
Saturday: 8am-5pm + Sunday: 9am-3pm

This 2-day intensive, hands-on workshop will show how sustainable, healthy local food production can e developed in an urban setting with urban farming pioneer and winner of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Will Allen.

This training offers diverse groups the opportunity to learn, plan develop, operate and sustain community food projects. Participants leave the workshop with improved skills that they can take back into their communities and pass onto others. These workshops are for both rural and urban projects.

Workshop Breakout Sessions May Include:

Compost & Vermicompost • Aquaponics • Hoophouse Construction
Year-Round Greenhouse Production • Urban Animal Husbandry
Planning for Urban Agriculture • Community Project Design

For more info, contact Feed Denver, at info@feeddenver.com

Click here to watch video about Will Allen.

THIS 2009 WORKSHOP IS FULL — REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.