Dahlia Campus Farms & Gardens

About Dahlia Campus Farms & Gardens

Dahlia Campus Farms & Gardens connects people with fresh, local food. Dahlia Campus features three farms including an aquaponics greenhouse, a 40,000 square foot market farm and Seeds of Power Unity Farm cultivated by Mo' Betta Green. These combined and accessible green spaces support community well-being.

How to Buy Our Produce

Visit Farm Stand

Visit the Northeast Park Hill Farm Stand at Dahlia Campus on Wednesdays from 4-6pm to check out available produce for the day. We accept all forms of payment and you can earn Double Up Food Bucks if you pay with SNAP.

Order in Advance

Order online at our webstore
Email your order to greenhouse@wellpower.org
Call in your order to (303) 504-1635

Flexible Pricing

We have three prices that support our farm. You can pick which one you would like to pay.

Sign Up for Produce Delivery

Attention residents of Northeast Park Hill, Clayton, Cole & Five Points

Do you use SNAP?
Do you have transportation, mobility and/or health conditions that prevent you from visiting our site?

If you answered YES to one or both of questions, you are eligible to receive your produce delivered to your home for FREE (courtesy of Colorado Access). Contact us for more information.

Call 303.504.1635 or email greenhouse@wellpower.org to sign up for deliveries.

PLANT: Covers Cost of inputs.
Example: Collards = $1.00

PRODUCE: Covers inputs + labor.
Example: Collards = $2.00

GROW: Covers inputs + labor + profit to reinvest in our farm.
Example: Collards = $3.00

Dahlia Community Cookbook 2023

Download the Dahlia community cookbook and discover over 25 recipes, available in both English and Spanish. Thank you to our Dahlia farmers and the community members who contributed.

Cookbook

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

SNAP is part of a federal nutrition program that provides food assistance benefits. Dahlia Campus' Northeast Park Hill Farm Stand accepts SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards for our produce sales. Apply for SNAP here.

Double Up Food Bucks

Anyone using SNAP is eligible for Double Up Food Bucks. If you purchase $1 of fruits or vegetables, you get another $1 worth of FREE fruits and vegetables (up to $20 per day).

Aquaponics Greenhouse

Dahlia Campus operates an aquaponics greenhouse where we grow produce and fresh fish year-round.

Aquaponics is a sustainable farming solution that recirculates water from fish tanks through vegetable grow beds.

Nutrients from the fish waste feed the plants and the plants filter the water to keep the fish healthy.

Our Partners

Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace has been addressing food insecurity in food desert neighborhoods since 2010. The organization emphasizes HEAL – Healthy Eating, Active Living – to promote food literacy. Additionally, they offer education and employment opportunities for local youth through internships and job training. For more information, contact Beverly Grant at grantbdee@gmail.com.

People’s Community Food Project was founded in 2014 by residents
concerned about food insecurity in Park Hill. The organization provides emergency food assistance and outreach programs geared towards wellness of children and seniors, food rescue and distribution with a focus on providing healthier sustainable choices for the community as a whole. For more information, please contact Pamela Washington at pdubb21@icloud.com.

Meet Our Team

Katie Huszcza
Associate Director of Operations and Farm Services

Katie's Bio

Katie has a passion for creating connections and building community through food and farming. She began a career in agriculture in 2011 at Innisfree Village, a 500-acre working farm that is also a living community for adults with disabilities. In 2013, Katie moved back home to Colorado to be the assistant farm manager at a high school on the Western Slope. Through these experiences she developed a passion for supporting people through horticulture and pursued professional registration as a horticultural therapist. Katie had the privilege of completing her horticultural therapy internship at the Denver Botanic Gardens and Craig Hospital where she worked collaboratively with patients and their medical teams to work towards recovery from traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. Since then, she has managed a community farm, a cut flower operation and supported beginning farmers through training, mentorship, and land access. Katie joined the Dahlia Farms and Gardens team in 2021 and is thrilled to support such an amazing team and community.

Jenna Smith
Aquaponic Farm Manager

Jenna's Bio

Jenna has overseen the production and distribution of greenhouse-grown fish and produce at Dahlia Campus since it opened in 2016. A Colorado native, Jenna spent several years in Europe earning an MS in Agroecology and pursuing her passion for travel before settling back down in Denver. Through her education and experience, Jenna has come to recognize aquaponic farming as an elegant approach for producing healthy food year-round using innovative technology without compromising environmental integrity. She believes that everyone has the right to nutritious and culturally appropriate food and is thrilled to be part of an organization which supports that mission. As a member of Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and the National Young Farmers Coalition, Jenna also works toward influencing policy that addresses inequities in the food system. Beets top the list of her favorite vegetables with sweet potatoes and snap peas close behind.

Renee Marcoux
Market Farm Manager

Renee's Bio

Renee believes in the restorative power of fresh, nutritious food to support the foundational health and well-being of individuals and communities. Growing, cooking and eating healthy food provides endless opportunities for building relationships and learning. Currently in her sixth year of farming, Renee hopes to inspire and teach even more people the science and art of urban farming. When she’s not at Dahlia Campus, Renee enjoys spending time with her partner and young child exploring Colorado and beyond. Her favorite vegetable is whatever is in season, but mostly asparagus.

Elena Aragon
Aquaponic Farm Coordinator

Elena's Bio

Elena began working at the Dahlia Campus greenhouse in 2016, a few months after operations began. Born and raised in Denver, Elena graduated from George Washington High School in 2011. From there, she attended Whitman College, a small liberal arts college in Walla Walla, WA, where she majored in biology and worked in an ornamental greenhouse on campus. She enjoys growing plants and delights when folks enjoy the fresh, delicious produce grown here at the farms. Her favorite items we grow are radish microgreens and bok choy.

Andy Orozco Rivas
Market Farm Assistant

Andy's Bio

Andy was born and raised in Denver, CO. As a farmer, skateboarder and cyclist, he enjoys daily learnings and opportunities to connect with the earth. Every day he feels the sun kiss his brown skin is a blessing. He shares his connections and healing through working with soil and facilitating the life of plants. He lives for today and prays for the grass that’s greener on the “other side” to be a vegetable garden instead. Food not lawns.

Pamela Washington
Community Partner
People's Community Food Projects

Pamela's Bio

Denver, CO, native and 17-year Park Hill resident, Pamela Washington is the founder and executive director of People’s Community Food Projects. With a criminal justice and healthcare background, she set forth a path of action to help her community by addressing healthy food inequity and accessibility in Northeast Park Hill and surrounding neighborhoods. Connecting with Dahlia Campus for Health & Well-Being as a Farm and Garden partner, People’s Food Pantry and other programs were established. Pamela is a compassionate, motivated, artistic, witty visionary dedicated to loving and growing communities one at a time

Beverly Grant
Community Partner
Mo'Betta Green

Beverly's Bio

Beverly Grant is a proud Denver native. She completed all of her schooling locally in Denver (elementary – college). She is a mother of two living children Bryce (31 yrs) and Blayre (29 yrs). Reese tragically lost his life at age 17). She has been an entrepreneur for 29 years. Her most recent business venture is an urban farmers market called Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace. Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace was launched on June 18, 2011 in the Historic Five Points Neighborhood. This market is founded on three principles: food literacy, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. The mission of this farmers market focuses on:

Broadening food access;
Providing food and nutrition literacy;
Supporting local business and neighborhood economy;
Showcasing neighborhood arts, history, and culture;
Shaping food policy;
Defining new food infrastructure and new agribusiness opportunities; and
Directly impacting the top four health disparities (cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease) through innovation, education, interaction, and demonstration.

The mission of this market also includes designing and installing edible, medicinal landscapes and yard farming in the northeast portion of Denver’s Food Desert neighborhoods. HEAL (Health, Eating, Active Living) would sum up all of the market’s activities. In October of 2015, Seeds of Power Unity Farm (SOPUF) was established to provide a community learning platform for urban agriculture and design, as well as a small production site for heirloom vegetables sourced directly to Mo’ Betta Green. Education, Preservation, and Food Self-Reliance are the founding principles for SOPUF. Some important outcomes of this market’s model are: improved community connectedness; greater awareness of the correlation between food consumption practices and personal health index; new culinary and lifestyle skills; and overall health/wellness resource connection; and better inclusion of disconnected populations to local food, health, wellness and environmental education.

Anna Cooper
Community Coordinator

Anna's Bio

Anna joined the team in August of 2021. She believes that access to fresh and nutritious food is a fundamental human right—food heals the body, calms the mind, and builds strong communities. She loves working at the Dahlia campus where she can connect communities to locally grown veggies as well as the dedicated folks who grow it. Anna enjoys spending time in nature, gardening, and pursuing all kinds of artistic endeavors. Her favorite veggies are jalapeños and tomatillos—especially when combined to make salsa!

Erian Hall
Project Coordinator

Erian's Bio

Erian joined the team in April 2022. Moving from Hawaii to Colorado in 2010, she graduated from High School in Aurora, CO, and earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Wyoming. Erian is grateful to work at the Dahlia Campus which provides the community with resources to improve their emotional, mental and physical well-being. She loves the beauty and serenity found in nature and has a newfound admiration of trees as her partner is a Certified Arborist.

Get Involved

Dahlia Campus invites the community to help our gardens flourish by volunteering. For more information on volunteering, click here.

Volunteer With Us

Contact Us

Email: greenhouse@wellpower.org
Phone: 720.583.4743
Address: 3401 N. Eudora St., Denver, CO 80207
Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri: 8am - 5pm. Tues & Thurs: 8am - 7pm

History of Northeast Park Hill

Click on the video to the right for a brief history of Northeast Park Hill and to find out why Dahlia Campus Farms and Gardens fulfill a critical need.