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FIRST ANNUAL DENVER CHICKEN COOP TOUR!  Call for entries now!  See Chicks and Goslings page to enter your coop. Fall chicken-keeping classes (including meeting and learning the organic benefits of weeder geese Sasha and Masha) to be scheduled soon.

INDOOR FARMERS' MARKET IS OPEN EVERY SATURDAY FROM 9-2; regular market now open Wed, Thur, Fri 1-6.  

EL CARIBE now serving Venezualan arepas Thurs and Fri 1-6!    LIVING FUEL makes smoothies of veggies and fruits on Saturdays!  RANCH FOODS DIRECT has hourly specials of Callicrate Beef and other good meats on Saturdays! ***Urban Homestead available for rent now on Kalamath Street near Denver Urban Homesteading.  Includes 4BR, 2 BA historic house with amenities and huge yards.  $1400/month***

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Denver Urban Homesteading, in collaboration with Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery, announces a Community Wine Project.

April 2010  Group selects approximately 3 varieties of wine grapes for Front Range climate and soil conditions

MAY 2010  Individuals plant as many/few vines as they can in backyards.  Guerrilla planting in alleys and vacant lots encouraged.  We will purchase 2-year vines that will bear fruit in 2011.

SEP/OCT 2011 or 2012  The group coordinates harvesting and delivery to Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery three blocks away for conversion into wine.

NOV 2011 or 2012  Begin enjoying own wine with family and friends.  You get back what you put in.  We have to pay the winery, but if volunteer-farmers do all the other work there may be few or no other costs.

2012 - Forever  Project continues.  New wine community is born and lives in perpetuity in Denver.

(If the project is unsuccessful, the participants will at least have new grapes in their yards and will have made new friends during the course of the project.)

UPDATE!  We have selected the grape varieties this April 2010.  For WHITE wine we have selected both Prairie Star and Louise Swenson grapes.  We will pair them to make one kind of wine.   For RED wine we have selected growing Leon Millot, a red grape.  We are ordering them from Double A Vineyards, www.rakgrape.com

You can join the project simply by planting and raising one or more of these grapes.  And if you want to be on the mailing list send a note to james@denverurbanhomesteading.com  We anticipate having a meeting in the fall of 2010 to keep in touch.