- Lettuce Patch Gardens
- Sustainably grown artisan vegetables
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
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We are truly local. Our organic produce never travels more than 10-20 minutes to get to you. |
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Our produce is grown sustainably, using organic, earth-friendly methods. |
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Our organically grown vegetables are freshly harvested and grown locally right here in Colorado Springs. |
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Our produce does not lose quality and nutrition while it spends days on a truck to get to you. |
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We grow unusual gourmet vegetable varieties such as heirloom lettuces and red scallions. |
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We grow with the seasons, so the organic varieties we grow are the most flavorful and nutritious when you purchase them. |
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Your purchase supports a local grower. |
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We contribute to organizations that support local, organic and sustainable agricultural practices. |
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We are committed to protecting the
environment. We use recycled paper, take part in Colorado
Springs green power, recycle all our garden waste and compost everything we can. |
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Our small, urban market-garden began in 2005. After gardening for more than ten years in Colorado Springs and growing delicious food for ourselves, we decided to share this bounty with others. We started small since this is a second business for us. We grow what we know best - salad vegetables. Always interested in season extension, and growing fresh food year round, we grow in mini-greenhouses that allow us to grow and harvest all year. Read more about how we grow our organic produce. In 2006, a generous next-door-neighbor agreed to let us use a large part of her backyard for growing. This has given us the garden space we need to start offering vegetables during the summer. We will also begin offering summer-grown lettuce mixes. We should have enough shade in the garden to grow lettuce during the summer without it being bitter. We have a passion for food and gardening, and have started a local Colorado Springs CSA. If you would be interested in a weekly home-delivery of our fresh produce visit our Community Supported Agriculture page to learn more about it. You can also get our produce at Rocky Mountain Natural Store. Cheryl, the head gardener, has plans to expand slowly each year and eventually leave her day-job to grow fulltime in our urban market garden. She would also like to teach others her methods, and work to expand urban market gardening in and around Colorado Springs. Urban gardening and urban agriculture are ideas that are becoming increasingly important as our world becomes more urbanized and developers transform agriculturally fertile lands and open spaces into sprawling suburbs. We and other urban growers are a part of the solution to our current environmental problems. |
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Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. ~ Cree Indian Prophecy |
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