We love our home and we love to share it with you. Help us continue our dream of transforming it into a tiny urban farm! We have big little dreams of a tiny greenhouse made from vintage windows for growing year round (and so Devin can finally get a fig tree), a cherry tree, an apple tree to replace the one we lost last winter, and many more vegetable and flower beds (especially ones filled with lavender for Shannon). If you feel like giving to a specific aspect of the farm, take a look at our specific Urban Farm Funds, but if you want to make a general gift to the fund, this is the place. We promise we will not get any more chickens...but we cannot promise that Shannon will not start keeping bees.

The GrowHaus is a nonprofit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood. Their vision is a world where all communities have the means to nourish themselves, and their mission is to create a community-driven, neighborhood-based food system by serving as a hub for food distribution, production, education, and economic opportunity. Through a variety of innovative, sustainable, and community-oriented urban farming techniques, The GrowHaus produces an abundance of fresh food, which is distributed to the residents of the north Denver area. We hope you will consider making a donation, and someday join us at their amazing facility for a tour and one of their exciting workshops!

We love making old things new again, and have dreamed of building a small greenhouse out of vintage windows and reclaimed barnwood. Help us build a home for our veggies to start their lives each spring, a place for our potted plants to spend the winter, and a place for Walden to hang out and eat compost.

Shannon has a favorite internet hashtag...#growfoodnotlawns. If she had her way, our entire back yard would be one big spread of raised veggie beds. But everyone knows Walden is really in charge at our house and he needs his space to prance, so we won't go that crazy, but we'd love to add a few more raised beds to be able to grow more of our food. Especially artichokes. All the artichokes.

Trees are the stuff dreams are made of. Devin dreams of a fig tree despite geographic difficulties, Shannon dreams of a cherry tree, and Walden dreams of a replacement apple tree so he can resume his favorite past time--jumping in the air to grab apples straight from the branches, then eating so many he gets sick. This fund will help us add to our new plum and peach trees. Now to learn how to bake fruit tarts...

We lovingly call our veggie garden our Plant Babies, but truth be told, we've never started our plants from seed. Shame! Shame! Shame! Help us take our veggie garden to the next level with a small indoor seed starter setup!

Don't worry, we won't get any more chickens...for now. But our ladies of leisure, Dolores and Gertrude, are pretty fancy and we like to give them nothing but the best. Our decision to keep chickens was the direct result of our pasta making class in Italy, where we decided we needed to have the freshest eggs possible to make the ultimate fresh pasta. This fund will help us up our chicken keeping game, but also it's direct partner in crime, our pasta making game.

Nothing is better than cheese. One of these days, Shannon is going to show up at home with a few Nigerian Dwarf goats, and we're gonna need to know how to crank out some goat's milk cheese. Help us learn the ropes with a cheese making course at Haystack Farms, where we will learn to make ricotta, mozzarella, and the holy grail of cheese, burrata.