DUH Farmers' Market

09/28/2016

Four Seasons Farmers and Artisans Market presents the Colorado Honey Festival this Saturday, October 1st, from 10am-4pm.

The event features presentations by Ron Fessenden, MD, MPH on the the health benefits of honey, as well as a Beekeeping 101 class and a presentation by Sustainable Eiber on their work with Bee Safe Neighborhoods. Local vendors will offer a variety of honey-based products for sale, including, of course, honey from Colorado hives, as well as honey salted caramels, baked goods sweetened with honey, and honey-based bath and body products.

Event schedule:
10am and 1:15pm (inside):
Presentation by Ron Fessenden, MD, MPH: The Revolutionary Health Benefits of Consuming Honey Book signing to follow each presentation.

11:15am (inside): Sustainable Eiber: Bee Safe Neighborhoods

11:30am (outside): Beekeeping 101 Class by The Honey People and Five Fridges Farm, presented by Localworks

12:15-1:15pm Lunch and Tea Tasting

Delicious lunch options will be available for purchase from our vendors!

Dragon Sauces will be serving up Honey Chicken Skewers and Culinary Adventures will serve Palisade Peach, Caramelized Onion and Melted Cheese Flatbread Sandwiches.

Tea tasting: Ashby Teas provided by Griffith Enterprises and herbal tea blends by Golden Bee Tea. Sample Colorado honey with your tea!

Location:
Four Seasons Farmers and Artisans Market
7043 W. 38th Ave
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

06/23/2016

BEEHELPERS OFFER FREE BEE CLASS on honeybee husbandry and the differences between industrial beekeeping and biodynamic bgeekeeping. 3pm on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at the clubhouse at 1290 Golden Circle, Golden. RSVP to 7 859-1122 or use their gmail address which before the @ sign is beehelpercaroline. Their website is beehelpers.com.

11/07/2015

"URBAN HOMESTEADING” TRADEMARK CANCELLED BY FEDERAL COURT

Denver, Colorado, November 5, 2015
Today in a pre-trial ruling a federal court in California cancelled the trademark for “urban homesteading” which its owner had used to disable a number of pages in 2011 by claiming infringement. This ended a nearly five-year legal struggle by a small farmers’ market in Denver, Colorado named Denver Urban Homesteading to cancel the trademark which began when the farmers lost their page and contacts with customers in February 2011. A copy of the decision can be found at www.denverurbanhomesteading.org.

The trademark was owned by the Dervaes Institute of Pasadena, CA, self-described in California incorporation papers as a “religious society” and operated by Jules Dervaes and members of his family. After pages around the country disappeared on February 14, 2011, the urban homesteading community united in protest against the Dervaes Institute, starting two new pages and a petition on change.org demanding cancellation of the trademark. Court filings show that the Dervaes Institute had issued cease and desist letters to book authors, book publishers, farmers’ markets and even a public library.

In April 2011 Denver Urban Homesteading began legal action at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the trademark. According to owner James Bertini, the USPTO refused to consider the merits, even though it was obligated to hold a single hearing and cancel the trademark quickly because it was listed on the “supplemental register” rather than on the more common “principal register.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) fared no better. Bertini said that they commenced legal action at the USPTO to cancel the Dervaes Institute’s trademark for “urban homestead,” as well as for “urban homesteading” but couldn’t get that agency to decide their case, either.

Then, in 2013 the farmers’ market sued to cancel the trademark in Colorado federal court, but after another delay - this time of one year - the judge refused to consider the case for jurisdictional reasons. So in December 2014 Denver Urban Homesteading sued in California where a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California canceled the trademark because it is generic. Generic words and phrases cannot be registered as trademarks. The case number is 2:14−cv−09216.

Denver Urban Homesteading was unable to afford a trademark lawyer so owner James Bertini, a retired general practice attorney represented the market himself. He was motivated to cancel the trademark not only to get back the farmers’ page but also as a matter of public interest since other pages had been disabled. Bertini said that he prevailed over five law firms and nearly a dozen intellectual property litigation attorneys that participated on behalf of the Dervaes Institute in those legal battles. “No small business should have to go through five years of litigation to cancel a trademark that shouldn’t exist,” Bertini said. “A small business cannot afford this burden.” Indeed, according to Bertini, his didn’t, and the farmers’ market was closed this year due to the extensive time required for litigation and travel to California for court-required meetings.

Bertini said that his research shows that this is the first time a trademark on the supplemental register was cancelled in a pre-trial ruling. However, he still has to go to trial in December to obtain damages. He needs to find an attorney licensed in California who can be associated with him in order to complete the case.

05/15/2015

Channel 7 contacted me tonight, Thursday, and they need to speak to someone about the precautions they are taking for the avian flu. If anyone wants to speak to that and can be on camera Friday morning, get your contact info to me ASAP so I can give it to the reporter.

05/04/2015

HONEYBEES AVAILABLE! A couple dedicated to saving bees captures swarms and will sell them to you for a modest adoption fee. Contact Matt and Fern at www.beehelpers.com They are not connected with Denver Urban Homesteading but are fellow bee-lovers and sustainability promoters.

04/23/2015

ORGANIC SEEDLINGS NOW AVAILABLE Artichoke, basil, chard, eggplant, ground cherry, kale, lavender, pepper (hot and sweet), and lots of tomatoes (Amish Paste, Banana Legs, Beefsteak, Black Plum, Black Prince, Black Sea Man, Carbon, Cherokee Chocolate, Cherokee Purple, Cosmonaut Volkov, Green Zebra, Japanese Trifele, Kellogg's Breakfast, Nyagous, Opalka Paste, Orange Banana, Pantano Romanesco, Principe Borghese, Pruden's Purple, Red Brandywine, Rose de Berne, San Marzano, Siletz, Stupice, Weisnichts Ukrainian).

Tomatoes are in large pots. All plants were fertilized this week with organic fertilizer. If you see what you like, buy now and plant later - seedlings have growing room and nutrients so that you can let them grow until you are ready to set them out. Most seedlings are heirlooms. All plants are grown from organic seed in homemade, organic potting mix, and watered with filtered water. No chemicals of any kind are ever used. No pesticides are ever used. No GMOs, ever.

03/27/2015

We were named Best Farmers Market in Westword: http://www.westword.com/best-of/2015/shopping-and-services/best-farmers-market-6613597

While bigger, seasonal farmers' markets crop up from May through October to take advantage of Colorado's harvest, Denver Urban Homesteading is still the...

03/26/2015

MARKET UPDATE for SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015

ORGANIC SPRING SEEDLINGS HAVE ARRIVED!
Coming this weekend from SAGE THYMES, our local Lakewood organic farmer:
ARTICHOKE, CHARD, COLLARDS, KALE, LAVENDER, LEEK, ONION, PARSLEY, PEAS, PEPPER, ROSEMARY, SHALLOT, THYME.

Coming soon:
ARUGULA, BASIL, BEETS, BROCCOLI, CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, CELERY, CILANTRO, EGGPLANT, GARDEN FRUIT, LETTUCE, OREGANO, RHUBARB, SAVORY, SPINACH, TOMATOES (many varieties).

Coming in May:
SAME AS ABOVE…PLUS CUCUMBERS, MELONS, SQUASH, PUMPKIN, ZUCCHINI.

SEED POTATOES HAVE ARRIVED! You can plant them now! We have planting instructions.

PURPLE PERUVIAN, PURPLE MAJESTY, RIO GRAND RUSSET, FRENCH FINGERLING, COLORADO ROSE, YUKON GOLD
From the farmer’s website:
Purple Majesty™ potatoes are loaded with 235 milligrams of anthocyanidins per 148 gram serving (approximately 1.5 potatoes), nearly twice the amount found in any other produce item at a fraction of the cost. Anthocyanidins are a subclass of high-potency antioxidants shown to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease, lower cholesterol, strengthen the immune system and decrease age-related memory loss.

NEW VENDOR: Mike Milakovic of KARMA KALE has delicious dried kale!

SPRING CLASSES ARE IN FULL BLOOM!

GLOBAL WORMING/VERMICULTURE Sat, Mar 28 2-4Tara Kent, wildlife biologist and urban homesteader $30

Vegetable Gardening 101 Sat, Apr 4 2-4
Carl Wilson, horticulturalist 25

Permaculture Introduction Sat, Apr 18 10-2
Tara Kent, wildlife biologist and urban homesteader 70

Chicken-keeping Sat, Apr 4 or Sat, May 2 1-330
Jennifer Loyd 35

Chicken-Keeping & Urban Homesteading Sat, Apr 18 or Sat, May 16 1-330 Jennifer Loyd 35

Permaculture Without Jargon in the garden Sat, May 9
2-4 Irina Bertini 25

SIGN UP ON THE WEBSITE VIA PAYPAL OR JUST SHOW UP.

Support our local farmers!!!

Denver Urban Homesteading
200 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
Open
Thurs and Fri 1-7
Saturday 9-3
303 825-0231
www.denverurbanhomesteading.com

03/01/2015

Kid goats from our goat dairy farmer
who sells delicious goat milk and cheese
will make a special guest appearance
at the market Saturday, March 7, 2015
from 9-2. Come and see them! We
also have a goat class that day if you
want to learn how to keep them in
your backyard. See CLASSES page.

01/26/2015

LAKEWOOD CITY GOVT MEETING ON CHICKENS, GOATS, BEES TONIGHT MON, JAN 26 Lakewood is proposing revising the city code so it will allow small animals such as hens, dwarf goats, bees, etc. on R-2 properties without having to going thru the special use hurdles which includes holding a neighborhood meeting.

In addition to the proposed language change, I have asked one city councilor to revise the zoning language to allow male ducks - drakes. There is no reason we should have a ban on drakes and it is anti-sustainability.

Having some pro-urban ag folks attend the meeting would be helpful.

The public hearing will be at the Lakewood City Council meeting on Monday, January 26, 7 PM. Anyone who wants to comment will be allowed three minutes to speak on the matter.

Lakewood City Hall
Civic Center South
480 S. Allison Pkwy
Lakewood, CO 80226

- note - Lakewood is still working on their parking lot so parking in the underground garage will be easiest and you should be able to take the elevator upstairs to the 1st Fl.

If someone has questions, I can be reached at 720-271-0184 or email nmlakewood (at) gmail.com

Thank you,
Natalie Menten

12/19/2014

2015 SPRING CLASSES NOW SCHEDULED. SEE CLASSES PAGE. Learn chickenkeeping, beekeeping, worms/vermiculture, permaculture, restoring wood, goatkeeping, urban homesteading, Angora rabbits. Sign up through website, send a check or come into the market.

12/13/2014

Our 2015 Denver Chicken Coop Tour calendar is now on sale for $12. Learn about coops in Denver, what kind of chickens people get and how they organize their gardens.