Food to Power

08/22/2026

08/19/2026

🎉 Good news travels fast! Because you asked, we are keeping our Early Bird ticket prices alive until September 7th! ✨

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Don’t wait until the price goes up. Treat your future self to the best weekend of the season!

👉 Tap the link in our bio head to events and grab your discounted tickets right now!

08/07/2026

🌽✨ 12th Annual Harvest Celebration! ✨🌽
Mark your calendars, Colorado Springs! Food to Power’s Harvest Celebration: Harvesting Power is coming this fall! Get your tickets now!
📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026

🕐 5:00 – 8:00 PM

📍 The Hillside Hub — 1090 S. Institute St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903
This year we’re celebrating food, land, culture, and collective power — and we want YOU there!
Get ready for an evening of:

🥬 Farm-fresh food & drinks from local vendors

🎵 Live music & dancing

🏆 Collard Greens Cook-Off

🎟️ Raffle with local experiences & products

🌱 Special programming celebrating our food system & community

🎉 And so much more to be announced!
Every dollar from this event goes directly toward feeding over 35,000 people annually with fresh, nutritious food right here in the Pikes Peak region.
Stay tuned for full programming details, ticket info, and featured vendors coming soon. Share this with your people and start clearing your Saturday night! 🙌🏽
👉🏽Learn more: foodtopowerco.org

08/05/2026

Summer is in full swing on the farm! Anyone else feel like they blinked and it was suddenly half-way over? June and July were a haze of leafy greens, root crops, herbs, berries, weeding, pruning, trellising, planting, and more… And now it’s onward into the abundance of late summer. Spring planted crops like kale and collards are suffering in the heat, but the heat loving peppers, cucumbers, and tomatoes are just getting going! And it’s hard to believe, but now is the time to plant fall crops- we’re filling empty beds with cabbage, leafy greens, root crops, and more. We’re ever-grateful for the opportunity to engage with the land and community and for all of the support that makes this work possible.

07/21/2026

Our 2025 Annual Impact Report is here.
This year tested us. We lost nearly $350,000 in anticipated federal funding. The region's only commercial composting facility shut its doors. And on top of it all, the largest cuts to SNAP in the program's history pushed 2.5 million people off food assistance nationwide — right as grocery prices kept climbing.

And still, we showed up for each other.

In 2025, we recovered and distributed 539,952 lbs of fresh food — our highest total ever, valued at over $2.6 million and providing an estimated 736,000 meals to 159,739 people across 44,549 households. We grew our small-scale pantry network from 1 location to 7. When a facility closure threatened our composting program, we built new local partnerships instead — diverting 485,000lbs of food scraps from landfills and preventing 242 tons of CO2e emissions.

We stood with the campaign that preserved free school meals for every Colorado kid. And in October, we welcomed Dolores Huerta to the Hillside Hub.
None of this was inevitable. It happened because this community chose to build power together, in public, in a hard year.

Read the full 2025 Annual Impact Report 👉🏾
https://foodtopowerco.org/s/2025-Annual-Report-Optimized.pdf

07/18/2026

🚌 IT'S HAPPENING! Today marks the beginning of a transformation. Concrete Couch is officially starting the retrofit of our donated bus into a mobile food recovery vehicle for Food to Power.

We're building the infrastructure our community deserves. In Southeast Colorado Springs, where a significant portion of residents lack fresh food access and families have lost major food distribution sites in the past year, this vehicle becomes a symbol that we haven't forgotten our neighbors, and we're committed to serving them with dignity.

Over the next several weeks, Concrete Couch will be leading the interior and exterior work, and we're planning community participation sessions so folks from surrounding neighborhoods can help paint this bus and claim ownership of what we're building together.

Big thanks to RMSER for donating the bus, to Concrete Couch for their partnership and expertise, and to Feeding Colorado for believing in this work.

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07/11/2026

🧄 Volunteer Farm Day: Garlic Harvest 🧄

Come get your hands dirty and help harvest garlic at Good Steward Farms / Fields of Care.
📅 Saturday, July 11, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 20155 Oasis Ave, Peyton, CO 80831
☕ Refreshments will be provided
All skill levels welcome — whether you're a seasoned grower or have never touched a garlic bulb in your life, there's a spot for you in the field. Come connect with community, get some sun, and help grow food for our neighbors.
Growing food. Growing community. Growing together. 🌱
See you in the field! 💚

Event canceled due to low interest

Have you ever wanted to be a farmer for the day? 🌱🧄

Or maybe you just want a fun way to support local farmers, get outside, and do something meaningful with your family, friends, or community.

The Southeast Food Coalition is hosting a **Volunteer Farm Day this Saturday at Fields of Care: Powered by Good Steward Farms**, and we would love for you to join us as we help harvest garlic!

Come as a family, come by yourself and make a few new friends, bring a date, bring your kids, or bring someone who needs a little fresh air and community. No farming experience needed just willing hands and a heart to help.

This is a beautiful way to support our local food system, connect with the people growing food in our community, and be part of something bigger.

Please RSVP if interested in joining

https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showRSVPSignUp/10C0448A9A82DA5F9C34-64683122-harvest?useFullSite=false

Come grow community with us — one garlic harvest at a time. 🌱

07/10/2026

Thanks to First Congregational Church’s “Roots for Justice” team for the generous donation of six serviceberry and one chokecherry tree! We are so excited for each and every addition to our native, edible, pollinator friendly, drought resistant hedgerow 🌳🌻🪏🐦‍⬛🪺🌸

06/26/2026

🌽✨ SAVE THE DATE — 12th Annual Harvest Celebration! ✨🌽
Mark your calendars, Colorado Springs! Food to Power's Harvest Celebration: Harvesting Power is coming this fall!
📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026

🕐 5:00 – 8:00 PM

📍 The Hillside Hub — 1090 S. Institute St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903
This year we're celebrating food, land, culture, and collective power — and we want YOU there!
Get ready for an evening of:

🥬 Farm-fresh food & drinks from local vendors

🎵 Live music & dancing

🏆 Collard Greens Cook-Off

🎟️ Raffle with local experiences & products

🌱 Special programming celebrating our food system & community

🎉 And so much more to be announced!
Every dollar from this event goes directly toward feeding over 35,000 people annually with fresh, nutritious food right here in the Pikes Peak region.
Stay tuned for full programming details, ticket info, and featured vendors coming soon. Share this with your people and start clearing your Saturday night! 🙌🏽
👉🏽Learn more: foodtopowerco.org

06/16/2026

Big thanks to El Paso County Conservation District and El Paso County CSU Extension for putting on a great series of classes on growing and caring for apple trees in our region! We are so excited to have planted two heritage apple trees from the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project.