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5 Fridges Farm
is partnering with the community of
Wheat Ridge

One goal of the Farm is to work together with the community to research and develop sustainable practices.

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ButterflyPavilion 5 Fridges Farm and the Butterfly Pavilion have something substantial in common... their love of pollinators. Without the butterflies and the bees working their pollination magic, we would have some serious trouble growing fruits and vegetables to eat. Together, we are working to understand the effects of our environmental choices on these important winged critters, and creating habitats to welcome them and encourage them to stick around.

Christmas to Compost

Each Christmas season, many evergreen trees and boughs appear in the community. What happens to these when the season is over? Lucky for Wheat Ridge, goats LOVE to eat them!

Drop off your tree at the Farm (11100 W 38th Ave) any time during daylight hours (follow the signs for where to leave them). The goats will love you for it! The goats love the evergreens, but the chemicals and decorations are not good for them. Make sure your tree is free from all chemicals, colors, and frost/snow, wires, strings, and decorations.

Please bring your ghosts of Christmas past (trees) to us. We will happily recycle them and you will get placed on the "nice" list in Christmas future. (Sorry, we have now confused many human Christmas stories, but you know what we mean.) Merry Evergreens and Happy New Year!
The Goats

The City of Wheat Ridge manages several natural areas and right-of-ways. The upkeep of these areas can be difficult to manage and they are especially prone to invasive weeds and vegetation. Enter the goats of 5 Fridges Farm. The goats eat everything, especially the invasive species, and replace the need for gas-powered mowers. The Open Space Section has partnered with 5 Fridges Farm on this program for several years.

The goats were highlighted in the April - June 2017 News and Views newsletter and Wheat Ridge Top of the Hour - "Goats" - July 2017.

The farm a has wonderful partnership with Colorado+ Brew Pub in Wheat Ridge. Spent grain from the brew process is donated to feed animals rather than going into the waste stream. Each week the farm picks up about 200 pounds of wet grain. The goats and chickens love it. You'll also find eggs and vegetables from the Farm on the menu. Please support businesses such as CO Plus that make the effort to purchase local produce and allow farmers access to food waste that can go to feed animals.

5 Fridges Farm is working closely with Colorado Open Lands. Together we promote information about conserved lands by holding special events at the Farm. For more information on privately conserved land, please see the Colorado Open Lands website.

Video Links
This local cooking show is hosted by Dr. Claudia Folska. While Dr. Folska may be blind, she is less in the dark about where her food comes from than most of the rest of us are. Her Cooking in the Dark show airs on PBS, and in the spring of 2018 you will find an episode filmed at 5 Fridges Farm! In this episode, Dr. Folska and Amanda gather ingredients from the Farm to make deep fried, goat cheese stuffed, squash blossoms. To level the playing field, Amanda is blindfolded.
Farmer Amanda also teaches in the department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Denver. Through her department she has created a certificate program in sustainable urban agriculture and several of those classes use the Farm as a field study location. This partnership allows students of the urban based university to come out 6 miles from the campus in downtown Denver to appreciate and study urban food systems in an urban agricultural setting. Email Amanda if you would like more information on the sustainable urban agriculture program at CU or other have other questions about her teaching at CU.

I Teach Online: Amanda Weaver

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11100 W 38th Ave.
Wheat Ridge, CO  80033
(303) 725-8748

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