Food Security

1 in 6 people you meet in Denver have eaten less or skipped a meal this year because they didn't have enough money for food. Most of them did so multiple times throughout the year.

Why? The cost of food for the average Denverite is $1,000 every month. At minimum wage, that's nearly half of your take home pay.

Food is medicine.

2 out of 3 Denverites say that healthy food at grocery stores is just too expensive. Eating healthy shouldn't be a practice reserved for the wealthy. If the food we eat is killing us, the system doesn't work.

Problem

The first corner cut on food is often its healthiness. Meanwhile, Denver has nearly 20,000 acres of parkland, almost none of it producing a single ounce of food for our 750,000 residents.

Solution

Prioritize fruit-bearing trees and bushes over all other kinds in Denver parks to create natural food forests around our city.
Plant raised and in-ground gardens throughout much of the acreage of our city parks.
Shift park employment to focus on gardners, farmers, and horticulturists.
Funnel the harvests of these gardens and food forests to discounted mobile produce markets that visit communities facing the most food insecurity.
Produce that doesn't meet quality standards is given away for free.