EVERITT FARMS is owned by Derek and Kamise Mullen. Both Derek and Kamise were born and raised in Lakewood, CO.
Kamise was raised on the last remaining piece of her family’s 1876 homestead just west of the corner of Alameda Ave and Garrison St( the location of Everitt Farms).
Kamise grew up outside, riding horses, playing in the fields, skiing and snowboarding, backpacking, rock climbing and biking with her father. She has a passion for the outdoors and preserving our natural environment. The future of our world is what drives everything she does.
Derek was raised just 3 miles north in the Morse park area (also on Garrison).
Derek is a traditionally trained fine builder. From his father and uncles he learned cabinetry, high end custom home building, framing, furniture making and more. He is an avid skier and backpacker and loves being outdoors. Derek spent his adult life dreaming of tearing out parking lots and building community farms, and tearing out neighborhoods and creating self-sufficient communities.
We believe the world is in need a vast systemic change in the way we think about food, agriculture, health and climate. We see these systems as deeply connected and interdependent. As such you cannot have a healthy, happy human population without healthy food, healthy land and a healthy environment. We believe, based on scientific research, that ecologically friendly ag has the potential to reverse climate change and create a healthier human population. And by applying the scientific method to alternative forms of agriculture at scale, society can begin to understand how to truly build a regenerative food system.
Derek and Kamise Mullen, meet along the banks of clear creek in Golden CO in 2010, she had 3 daughters 5, 7 and 9 and he had a son and daughter 2 and 8. Less than a year later, we were married and had a son. Together we worked in indoor horticulture and were very focused on our health and the quality of our food. As feeding a family of 8 healthy and organic was out of our means, we converted our 1/2 acre property into an urban farm. Because we quickly outgrew our lot, we started Everitt farms in 2011 where we managed 7.6 acres of the family land and 18 acres of adjoining leased land. From 2011—2018 we grew 6 acres of market gardens and production veg, 15 acres of irrigated hay, and rotationally grazed horses as Kamise’s family had done for 150 years. On site we ran a farm market, pumpkin patch and Christmas tree lot. Here we grew our market gardening and production veg skills and helped build a community of agriculturalists in the Denver Metro area through the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU) a branch of the National Farmers Union. They are a grass roots policy base organization that supports family farms and ranches of all scale. Through the inclusive network of family farmers and ranchers, we were able to clearly identify the disconnect between food producers and eaters, and identify potential causes of the dire situation of ag worldwide.
In 2018 we moved our farm to Idaho, where we now run H&H Ranch, a regenerative heritage breed pasture pork and market veggie operation.