Emerald Gardens

30/07/2024

We are honored to work with Aurora Public Schools Nutrition Services Department and East Denver Food Hub! Together, we’re providing students with the opportunity to enjoy our fresh, flavorful, and nutritious microgreens. Grown with love in Bennett, CO, just 23 miles away, these microgreens are packed with vitamins and nutrients to help students thrive. We’re proud to promote local agriculture in schools and contribute to the health and well-being of our community’s youth. 🌱💚

04/11/2022

Grab these greens at the final farmers market of the season!
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Keep it simple: mix microgreens into any salad to add nutrients, flavors, and crunch!

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Image Description: A black crate is filled with small containers of green microgreens of all varieties. A hand is reaching in to get one.

26/09/2022

Our favorite lunches always include micros!

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Image Description: a hand is holding a tuna sandwich stuffed with broccoli microgreens.

22/09/2022

We are riding the momentum of this transition into Autumn! 🌗 Stay tuned for more updates and invitations as we continue broaden our horizons. 🌄
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13/09/2022

These pea-micros are ready for the plucking! 🌱

04/11/2021

Take a tostada or fried tortilla, spread regeneratively grown local beans, and top with a handful of farm fresh Emerald Gardens broccoli microgreens.

A quick and healthful snack or light lunch is just a clamshell of micros away!
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27/10/2021

Our goats Tupac and Biggie are an integral part of the EG crew and operation. As part of the ecosystem, their high nitrogen compost can be used fresh (unlike horse compost that requires aging) and goes a long way to healing the soil and land. Regenerative agriculture is what's up.

As always, we're stoked to share our harvest with you via the East Denver Food Hub (with local delivery right to your home!) online shop:

https://www.eastdenverfoodhub.com/online-local-market



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08/10/2021

The EG Crew's always hustlin hustlin hustlin to harvest the finest organically-grown micros and feed + nourish our community with this magical superfood. And at the end of a hard day's work, we always replenish our strength with, what else? More delicious microgreens 💪🏽🌱

07/10/2021

Broccoli micros, goats, and a xolo dog... oh my! With a single ounce of broccoli microgreens containing only about 12 calories, yet comprising ~68% of our daily recommended dose of A and C, these chock full o’ protein, calcium, and sulforaphane hit the spot for both us and our animal companions. Stay tuned to learn more about how they'll do you so so so good while helping to heal and transform our bodies in beautifully unexpected ways. 💪 🌱

30/09/2021

From our farm to your taco! With microgreens rich in potassium, iron, zinc, and magnesium and providing an average of 4 to 6 times more vitamins and antioxidants than fully grown plants, there's no better filling for your tortilla to make a quick + tasty weeknight meal. 🌮 🌱 🤤

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25/09/2021

As EG founders, Dave and Roberto have many different roles and responsibilities—sometimes they’re policy advocates and activists, while at other times they’re called to be engineers, researchers, or business developers who create new marketing opportunities. They see their calling as a public service—they’re passionate about feeding their community and building a resilient and equitable local food system.

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23/09/2021

Just as important as hooking y'all up with farm fresh micros, is supporting the local economy that helped us found and continue this labor of love. In fact, money spent locally creates tremendous value for our own community—a dollar spent at a locally-owned farm like EG is usually spent 6 to 15 times before it leaves our community, so that from $1, we create $5 to $14 in value for our community.

Buy local. Eat micros. Build a thriving local economy. ✊🏽 🌱

16/09/2021

As our community learns about the social and environmental implications of their purchasing power, our food policy can start to shift as well: a food literate society translates into thriving small farms, living wages for farmers, lower carbon footprint for food production, and fresh and nutritious food that is affordably priced.

Shout out to everyone who continues to support us as we work to revolutionize our local food systems and share our harvest. 🌱❤️


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15/09/2021

Emerald Gardens + East Denver Food Hub co-founder Roberto Meza talks to Rocky Mountain PBS about EDFH’s mission to revolutionize how we think about food.

According to Roberto, farm workers’ low wages, lack of access, and absence of economic opportunities result from a system that prioritizes profits over people. EDFH's model enables more profits to reach farm workers by eliminating middlemen and reimagining distribution.

We at Emerald Gardens are proud to offer our microgreens harvests directly through EDFH (more info coming soon; watch this space!).


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09/09/2021

As first-generation agri-tech farmers working to make healthful nutrient-dense food accessible to our communities and reduce the inequities in our existing food system, we stand in solidarity with workers on the heels of the end of to honor and recognize the labor movement.

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04/09/2021

to our humble beginnings:

We started Emerald Gardens in a tiny DIY makeshift grow space; now we cultivate our microgreens labor of love in a 3,000 square foot Ceres Greenhouses space. 🌱

Though getting here has taken our giving 110% to this project, none of this would matter if we didn’t have our community’s support. Y’all supported and built us up when things were touch and go. And now, as essential workers, we’re proud to feed our community during this uncertain time.

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02/09/2021

with the help of Emerald Gardens co-founder Dave Demerling who is working relentlessly to bring you the freshest local microgreens in the Denver / Boulder area. Our micros are, as always, grown with love ❤️ in Colorado.

01/09/2021

"The pandemic has been a great teacher. It has illuminated what is wrong with the current [food system] paradigm; the inconsistencies are laid bare and we can see where we need to redirect resources. People want to pay attention to where their food comes from — they don’t take it for granted anymore."

-EG Co-Founder Roberto Meza

Shoutout to our community of customers and supporters for helping us rebuild our local food system, emphasize environmental stewardship, put people ahead of profit, and affirm the importance of cultivating happy and healthy communities. 🌱

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15/08/2021

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14/08/2021

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12/08/2021

The EG Crew approaches growing microgreens holistically and with a focus on environmental stewardship. Rather than destroying or depleting resources, we mobilize practices rooted in regenerative agriculture that conserve resources and improve our use of them.

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07/08/2021

Wanna give your avocado toast a li'l kick while still keeping it comfortably familiar? Add microgreens! Filled with so much folate and vitamin B, you’ll be ahead of the game + filling your body with SO much goodness.
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06/08/2021

With our mission to cultivate community by growing delicious and nutrient dense microgreens, we're all about developing a deeper connection to local food. 🌱


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29/07/2021

We take care of our micros plants and they take care of us, so we can take care of you. 🌱

29/07/2021

We started growing EG microgreens as a labor of love and remain steadfastly committed to bringing folks together + cultivating community as we share our fresh harvests. 🌱👨🏽‍🌾

28/07/2021

Denver Business Journal interviewed Dave Demerling and Roberto Meza, the co-founders and co-owners of Emerald Gardens and its sister organization, East Denver Food Hub!

The pandemic definitely hit both organizations hard. Customers like restaurants shut down and therefore could not purchase anymore. While things looked bleak, the team refused to shut down and doubled their focus supporting local farmers and communities, including people of color and under-resourced communities. And so far, that work has paid off. Today, the Food Hub employs nine full-time and four part-time employees. Likewise, Emerald Gardens employs one full-time employee and recruited a BIPOC-owned farm - Sugarmoon Mushrooms - to grow on its land. It is incredible to see the support from people like you, showing us that people want this, and we look forward to continuing this work through this pandemic and beyond.

Read the article for more on how East Denver Food Hub and Emerald Gardens adapted through the pandemic with its mission to emphasize dignity, from seed to consumption.

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2021/06/25/sbbm-to-survive-this-farm-decided-to-grow.html

Supporting communities of color and people in need leads to a new East Denver venture.

07/06/2021

This past Friday the fine folks at , .sun, and visited for a Community Day of Connection and Action and Sovereignty. We worked, we celebrated, and we ate a meal together. This is what food sovereignty looks like.

03/06/2021

TODAY! Take action now, call your legislators to support SB87 to give basic rights to the farm workers who grow the food we eat! The bill is likely to go to the legislature tonight!

13/05/2021

You can get Emerald Gardens microgreens at East Denver Food Hub, and they will be at City Park Farmers Market this Saturday and South Pearl Street Farmers Market this Sunday! Come say hi!

12/05/2021

Want to make a difference? Many farm workers in Colorado don't get basic safeties such as minimum wage. We and many other want to change that. Check out this post for actions YOU can take help us do that.

SB87 Press Conference and Lobby Day