Though they have improved the last few years with their ceasing of using toxic chemicals, they only burned our plants off of our fence trespassing on our property once, they have recently stopped overplowing and dust assaults to our garden and for the first time since they invaded, they actually respected our privacy a bit and stopped the bullying they allowed by their 'trustees' for years. They have never once apologized for the bullying or the harm they have done to us and our organic garden and still hold contempt for neighbors here 20 years before their invasion and assault of our properties including a prison labor built fence that occupies our land. They also discriminate and refuse to deal with problems depending on who reports them for instance, leaving deer trapped in their fence without water for days - even weeks, or allowing their animals to cause problems for neighbors. Beware of this group. Though they claim to feed hungry (with corn?) they hate their neighbors and retaliate for valid concerns and complaints and ignore any reports of problems until far too much harm is done.
This project is an obscene use of your donations, used to harm it's own community and endanger neighbors like us with pre-existing organic gardens we use to feed ourselves to prevent having to use donations from others. The fields are a dust storm that may happen at any time and does. The air will endanger volunteers as may the undisclosed chemicals used liberally and without conscience. They moved in beside us 20 years ago and began running the tractor non-stop, abusing the land given them. They set up a propane cannon just yards from our home with no warning , sending the swat cop coming at us through the field with gun ready when it misfired at 5 a.m. They never said a word to us. They burned our crops off of our fence and sprayed their poison into our organic gardens. They stationed a pair of thugs beside our own gardens for years who retaliated against our complaint by burning out for 100 yards in the dirt sending the dust directly at us. That is what you get for complaining of their speed just feet from your own fence and their renegade dust running you out of your own gardens which you require for your own food for the year. They took Shine's donated land and used it to undo her help ridding our community of CoZincCo which made our air dangerous and community unsafe. They grow corn - grew it in the same spot beside us for 10+ years without rotation, causing pests and an increase in herbicide and pesticide each year. They have never left a cover crop. Their abuse of their land causes dust storms that have destroyed our home and our gardens and our quality of life. They refuse to disclose their chemicals and they will not warn us before they treat the field feet from our gardens. They have prevented our use of our own gardens in our own home and have now started before June, leaving us not one minute in our own gardens without harassment by chemical, dust and diesel. There is nothing community friendly about this self proclaimed friendly farm. They have bullied us for 20 years and ruined our own home we worked hard to provide ourselves only to have this cruel bully move in, con our neighbors out of their land, and use your donations to take from us without a care in the world except for undeserved praise for growing a nutritionally bankrupt crop on half of the land and using it to destroy all of their neighbors with diesel, dust, undisclosed herbicides and pesticides, and the most hours ever put on any tractor for such little good. They harassed us each time we complained of noise, dust, or rude invasive volunteers overstepping their boundaries which the project does not prevent. They have moved another's fence post, harassed us twice with drones, used the property to harass with helmet-less child passengers on atv's zooming past our garden on your donated land just because we complained. The "man" who started this project named it fraudulently. Farm to table implies organic or the least use of harmful products possible by proper rotation and care of soil, and care for the neighbors. This project strips the land bare, abuses the soil, over uses the tractor and does nothing to the neighbors but harm, abuse, harass and destroy. Board members hang up on complaints - all of them have done us harm. One lied about the drones, one hung up when we tried to report the drones, the other sent the drones intentionally knowing they'd cause us grief. They forced cops to be contacted because they would not admit the drones harassing us in a no fly area beside the airport and helipad. They sent the drones twice to harass us and a female board member huffed and hung up on a crying, upset, terrified neighbor they abused with those drones. This project is not beneficial and if you help, you will be paying them to abuse and bully their neighbors on your $.
CFTT made me feel right at home and stole my heart. They are inviting and fun, they teach you about farming and take pride in their crop. They see it as an honor to serve and to feed the community. For that and many other reasons, I stand behind CFTT and volunteer wherever and whenever I can!
I have been volunteering many years for Farm to Table. I enjoy my co-workers and the friendship of all the people. Tony & T.J. and Lisa are great to work with & for. I appreciate all the effort put into growing the crops to send out to all the organizations. I'm glad to see Tony has expanded to all or at least most of the state of Colorado in the distributions. It's a very worthwhile cause. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of it. I intend to keep helping as long as my health & ability hold out. Blessings, Art Hulen