Rachel Dunhoff and Kevin Fox's urban mushroom farm in south Denver grows cooking mushrooms including enoki, lion's mane, and shiitake. To help farmers market vendors during the off-season, they launched Farmer Fox and Friends, a cooperative marketplace featuring over 160 products from 60+ Colorado producers. Rachel explained their motivation: 'We'll be paying the rent on the space either way, so we figured, let's open it up and help friends out.' Their strict local-only policy ensures 'If they aren't local, we won't even consider adding them' to the platform.

Furst Class Fungi is a Denver-based mushroom farm aiming to educate and connect their community through mycelium. Their goal is to tap into the local scene of restaurants, farmers markets, and individual clients looking to step up their mushroom game. This is the tour and...

City Park Farmers Market x Foxtown Farm Tour 2024

City Park Farmers Market tours Flower Street Farm. They are a small family business in Lakewood, Colorado dedicated to healthy habitats for pollinators and humans. With twenty years of experience in education, their passion is bee education, coaching and mentorship. They...

Broth is slow-simmered for long periods of time, 24 to 72 hours. We use all the cartilage, and fat in the skin.

It takes tons of high-quality bones to make a relatively small amount of good broth. It's very expensive to make, but that's what it takes.

Adam Bratter's food trailer delivers 'the silkiest hummus on the planet' and falafel that are 'chewy outside and hot, fluffy and verdant inside, they sing with a perfect blend of fresh herbs, spices and garlic.' Committed to organic ingredients to avoid herbicide-sprayed garbanzo beans, Bratter emphasizes his approach: 'I work alone, so speed is definitely not our thing. The falafel are hand-scooped to order. It's genuine slow food.'

Three Leaf Farm owners Lenny and Sara Martinelli specialize in organic heirloom vegetables and herbs across their 17-acre certified organic farmstead in Lafayette, supplying 100 percent of its produce to five well-known restaurants, three of which are located in downtown Boulder.

Pontus Jakobsson, a third-generation beekeeper from Sweden, brings traditional beekeeping expertise to Colorado through Bjorn's Colorado Honey. 'I, of course, want to say it's the most important animal that we have on the planet. Every fourth bite you consume, it's there because of bees,' says Jakobsson. The company offers diverse honey varieties including traditional clover, spun varieties, and flavored options like sweet and spicy or lemon zest, alongside apiary products like propolis and royal jelly, selling at Boulder County Farmers' Markets and South Pearl Street Farmers' Market in Denver.

City Park Farmers Market farm tour with Croft Family Farm 2024

In 2020, the two farms came together to form the Treehouse Farm Collective, a separate LLC that enabled them to put forward a strong proposal for a farmland lease and get approved.

If you can take away some of the financial burden upfront and have community, that's a big thing. — Cody Jurbala, Speedwell Farm & Gardens