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July 25, 2026

 

Honoring 10 Years in Aspen in the Mardi Garden

Born out of magnificent feasts and spring's promise of abundance, Mardi Gras is coming to Aspen for Big Green’s 10th Glamour Garden Ball. 
For a decade, we've brought bold, forward-thinking visionaries to Aspen united by the belief that growing food changes lives.
On July 25th, come elaborately dressed in your most colorful attire. Bring a mask, your beads, and energy fit for a decade worth celebrating.

 

Growing Food  Changes Lives.

Big Green is on a bold mission to grow more food across the country and put fresh, healthy food on every table in America. Since 2011, we've never stopped believing that growing food changes lives. Our network of over 200 partners, grantees, and growers aren't just producing millions of pounds of fresh food; they're increasing food security, improving the health of the neighbors, strengthening local economies, and restoring environments. We’re consistently proving that when communities control their food systems, they control their futures.

In Aspen, we celebrate our collective power to change food systems across America.

 
 

WHY GROWING FOOD?

Growing food is never just about food. Every dollar raised on July 25th goes to work across four areas that funders, communities, and growers all believe in.

  • Food security starts with access. Big Green backs local leaders building emergency food infrastructure, reducing household food costs, and putting fresh food within reach in communities that have been left out of the food system for too long.

  • Food is medicine. Growing it is one of the most direct ways to make good nutrition accessible while building food literacy, shifting behavior, and preventing diet-related disease through education and community-led growing.

  • Community gardens do quiet, powerful work. Local food systems are an environmental strategy hiding in plain sight, creating biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, urban green space, and climate resilience.

  • When people grow food together, they build something that lasts. Youth engagement, cultural food heritage, economic opportunity, and intergenerational connection… growing food is community-building by another name.

 

This is a night to dress up, show up, and celebrate ten years of a movement you helped build. Expect a full Mardi Garden experience: color, music, flavor, and the energy of a community.