Home Grown – The Urban Cowboy Denzel Mitchell Jr.
Black Butterfly Teaching Farm
By Amy Scattergood
Baltimore Magazine
Photography By Justin Tsucalas | Illustrations By Melissa Castrillón
June 2026
Excerpt:
Mitchell grew up not in Maryland but Oklahoma, “a country boy with cowboy roots,” as his Farm Alliance bio describes him. Growing up in the heartland sparked his interest in farming, which translated into urban farming once he moved to Baltimore, where he and his family founded Five Seeds Farm in Sparks during that time.
Farm Alliance, “a social change organization,” was founded over a dozen years ago. And so it was unsurprising that when the City of Baltimore became interested in establishing an urban teaching farm in the summer of 2021, they approached Mitchell.
“We were in the middle of running a pilot of a training program—the Black Butterfly Urban Farm Academy—and we needed a farm to host the program,” he says. “So in those ways, this all aligned.”
The farm, now in its fourth season, has two acres in cultivation, growing a medley of vegetables, cut flowers, small grains, indigo, and all those fish peppers. They’ve recently built two greenhouses intended to grow crops beyond their typical outdoor season.
“The idea was to operate the farm as an educational space, and to answer the ‘urban ag’ question,” says Mitchell. “Is urban agriculture economically viable? Can it operate as a business? We’re attempting to answer that on the production side and, at the same time, demonstrate practices and techniques of small-scale, diversified, sustainable, regenerative agriculture as a teaching tool.”
To that end, the farm hosts tours, workshops, and classes, and, with other Farm Alliance members, operates a Saturday stall at the 32nd Street Farmers Market in Waverly. A roadside pay-what-you-can stand at the front of the farm is also finally coming to fruition.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/home-grown-the-urban-cowboy-denzel-mitchell-jr/
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