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Help Food to Power grow roots & deepen impact at the Hillside Hub
In June 2022, Food to Power opened the Hillside Hub -- Colorado Springs' first neighborhood food center! The Hillside Hub promotes local food justice by providing community members a place to come to access, cook, eat, grow, learn about, advocate for, and gain employment through fresh food.
This year, in tandem with celebrating our organization's 10 year anniversary, 2023 also marks the launch of “Putting Down Roots,” Phase II of the Hillside Hub Capital Campaign. This campaign will enable Food to Power to deepen its roots at the Hillside Hub and empower community impact for generations to come. As a whole, the completion of these projects will bolster the Hillside Hub's sustainability, equity, accessibility, and productivity.
To learn more about the capital campaign projects, please see below!
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These panels are a sustainable, long-term investment into the Hillside Hub, enabling years of clean, renewable energy while offsetting operating costs associated with utility bills.
An essential addition to the farm’s infrastructure, this heated nursery will catalyze year-round growing (despite Colorado’s short growing season), and increase the volume of hyper-local fresh produce and seedlings grown and distributed to neighbors.
After the urban farm’s first successful growing season, additional investments are needed to enhance growing conditions, cultivate healthy soil, improve the environment for volunteers, attract pollinators, improve general aesthetics and bolster sustainability of the Hillside Hub’s mini-ecosystem. This includes: deer fencing, irrigation, grapes/fruit vines and bushes, native hedgerow plants, and shade structures.
Adding a fully accessible outdoor event space supplied with necessary event equipment will further promote connection and community use, and also offer Southeast Colorado Springs a venue that belongs, first and foremost, to Southeast residents. This includes: a wheelchair ramp, pathways, a pergola, an amphitheater, light structures, and perennial plants.
The Hillside Hub houses Food to Power’s No Cost Grocery Program, through which fresh food that is recovered from local food distributors or grown on-site is distributed to individuals at no cost. This includes: custom shelving for food storage and distribution and commercial refrigerators. These investments will provide a grocery-style experience, effectively increasing capacity and reducing stigma.
As an organization whose food recovery and compost collection programs began solely on bikes, biking is still ingrained in Food to Power’s history and culture. To this day, many staff, volunteers, and community members commute to the Hillside Hub via bike. This bike structure will protect bikes from the elements and also house various stands and tools for on-site repairs.