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inside the issue The Style Issue SEPTEMBER 2022 ON THE COVER DEPARTMENTS 8 Lifestyle Letter 12 City Scene 18 Our Town LIFE + CULTURE 26 Inspired By STYLE + BEAUTY 38 Must See LOCAL SERVICES 44 Travel Journal TRAVEL 48 Events 26 38 44 18 FEATURED 18 Called to Serve Rise Up Malawi founder and Castle Pines resident Megan Mathis talks about faith, family, and the importance of giving back 26 The Mod Mountain Lifestyle 38 Garden to Vase Find Local Flowers at Prairie Hill Flower Co. 44 Experience Scottsdale This Sprawling Luxury Hotspot in the Stunning Sonoran Desert is total Vacation Inspiration Photography: Kaleigh Gibb Owners and dynamic mother daughter duo Morgan and Jayne of Mod Mountain Boutique located in Downtown Castle Rock Historic District 10
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Originally from California, Megan says her
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HOW DID YOU ORIGINALLY LAND IN MALAWI AND DISCOVER THE NEED?
I interviewed a gentleman named Hudson. He had set up a refrigerator to sell cold Coca-Cola and Fanta at the festival gate. And he had this very intricate network of electrical cords. I mean, it must have been half a mile long. I don’t know how the thing was actually running. He told me he was going to make a little over $300, which would sustain him and his family for the rest of the year. And he had a much deeper story than that. His wife had recently left him, which is very rare in Africa, with two young daughters to care for.
SOUNDS LIKE YOU REALLY CONNECTED WITH HUDSON. Yes. I returned to the U.S., and we ended up staying in touch for a number of years via email. At some point, he wrote to me and asked if there any way we could work together to start something to help the children in our community. He said, “I know you saw when you were here that their ability to stay in school and get an education has like hundreds of barriers for them. And they drop out.” And, of course, that creates generational cycles of poverty. I told him I wanted to help, but I don’t even have any money myself. I don’t know how to fundraise. I don’t know anything about this. There’s nothing I can do. But my heart kept going back to this conversa tion. I thought, is there really nothing I can do? I do have access—I am living in America. I didn’t realize with fundraising that you could just ask people for money. I thought you had to do some thing like an event. SO, YOU WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SEND HIM MONEY? Yes. I lived in an apartment complex that had recycling bins, and a lot of people would throw par ties and I’d see beer cans in the trash. And I thought, well, what if I recycled all this, got the money and sent it to Hudson. I put together a little blurb about Malawi and went around to all the apartment complexes asking people to save their cans for me to recycle. It was a very time-consuming work, but I raised a couple of hundred dollars. With that money, we bought two used computers and started an after-school program at Hudson’s house. WAS IT HIS IDEA OF A PLACE TO START THE PROGRAM AT HIS HOUSE? Yes, it was something he had been thinking about and I thought it was a great idea. He started spreading the word in the community that he was teaching computers to kids. I think we had five or 10
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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
I was waiting on a visa after I finished my mas ters in the U.K. I wrote my master’s thesis on the ways in which music can be used to harness political will, and I did a case study of Live Aid. I wanted to use my research for more than just my master’s qualification. I found an organization that was running a music festival in Malawi. So I reached out to them and I said, “Hey, what you’re doing is really cool. I want to learn more. This is the research I just finished. Is there any way I can get involved or volunteer?”
AND I’M GUESSING THEY SAID YES, PLEASE COME. They did. I actually went there to do an economic impact study for them. They had never really stud ied the economic impact of what they were doing. A lot of people thought it was just a music festival, but it was really having a substantial impact on the economy in Malawi. People from all over the world come to the festival and then continue trav eling throughout the country for another couple of weeks. So yeah, it made a huge impact.
Megan Mathis is a busy woman. She’s a military wife, mother of two young children (with the third arriving in October), and devoted leader of Rise Up Malawi, a charitable foundation whose mission is to provide safe spaces and educational opportu nities to the children who live in extreme poverty in the Mangochi District of rural Malawi, Africa.
I recently met up with Megan at The Exchange Coffee House to learn more about her family, her faith, and her foundation.
HOW DID YOUR WORK EVOLVE INTO RISE UP MALAWI?
There were a few people who suggested I may not want to “go there,” that I may not want to associate with any kind of faith because I could alienate donors, but I didn’t feel that way. I wanted to give God the glory and all this, and really, I had to do what made sense for me. I felt like this had been handed to me. And there have been so many testimonies of things that have happened that just really are out of my control and blessings that have been poured over us. And I can’t say that that’s my doing, because it’s just not. It’s too incred ible to say that it’s my doing. So, we’re really just acknowledging that God loves this community and these people and wants to provide for them. And I think in that simple acknowledgment that we’ve received a lot of blessing and we’ve grown because of it. Obviously, you have to put in the work. Absolutely. But you also have to give credit where credit’s really due.
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kids show up for these lessons initially, and they also were starting to learn English and life skills, as well as the computer. Everything started on his porch. A few years went on, and I kept recycling bot tles and sent him the money. In 2008, we’d raised enough to move the program to accommodate the growing number of students and have an indoor structure in which to teach during the rainy sea son. He had a small chicken coop in his backyard that we renovated, and that doubled our capacity.
There are many organizations that provide emergency aid to Malawi, and that’s great. It’s one of the poorest countries in the world. But it has become a lot of handouts that has created this culture of dependence. I mean, I understand why groups are driven to do that—because you just want people to eat.
Then about five years ago, I read a book called When Helping Hurts [by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert] and it changed my whole mindset. In 2019, we introduced our farming training program, because we realized, well, we’re getting our kids into school, but a lot of them are going to school hungry. We’ve been giving their parents food, but it’s just a
Yeah, and I used that time to build trust with him. I asked for receipts and photos and videos and any thing he could provide to show me these funds were being used in the way he said they were. He really proved himself over that time to be accountable and trustworthy. I saw pictures of the kids and everything was consistent and added up. And so as time went on, I felt more comfortable getting this money to him and that I could trust him to use it for the community. We weren’t paying him. He was doing this on his own; all the funds were going into the program.
SO YOU RAN EVERYTHING FROM THE U.S. AND HUDSON WAS SORT OF LIKE YOUR MAN ON THE GROUND?
In early 2018, I lost my mother. When she passed, I inherited some money and I just really felt called to use those funds to kind of offset my need to take a salary. I decided to put all the money into the organization, rebrand it as Rise Up Malawi, and hire Hudson full-time. We applied for 501(c) 3 status and just kind of hit the ground running. And that’s also when I realized there are a bazillion ways to fund raise and I started dedicating all my time to it. HOW DOES YOUR FAITH CONNECT WITH ALL OF THIS? When I started this, I had a sense that God had given me this work, because of what I’d experi enced with my mother. And I just really felt called to continue when she passed because she was a big supporter of this work. Like she would go and recy cle bottles with me. And she had a charitable heart; she gave to a lot of organizations. And, so, part of me felt like I could honor her and her life through thisInwork.thebeginning, I was a little bit hesitant to say we were a faith-based organization, because we’re not a ministry or any anything like that. But we do kind of operate from the standpoint of sharing the love of Jesus and his life with our kids. Kind of like, “We’re just gonna love on you, because that’s how Jesus loved on the world.”
HOW DID YOU GO FROM EDUCATING KIDS TO TEACHING SUSTAINABLE FARMING?
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YOU’RE ORIGINALLY FROM CALIFORNIA. HOW DID YOU COME TO LIVE IN CASTLE PINES?
My family—my husband and I, and our two chil dren—moved to Castle Pines in 2020. Right in the middle of the pandemic. My husband is active-duty Air Force and received orders to work in Colorado Springs. So, I have a “traveling nonprofit” because it moves with us. It’s nice in the sense that I get to share our story wherever we go, and now I get to share my story here. Band-Aid on the bigger problem—they’ve got to learn better farming practices. So we introduced a farming training program called Farming Dad’s Way that teaches basic tech niques, like how to protect maize fields against flooding and dry spells. And we’ve seen a lot of success with it. We followed up with a second farm ing training workshop called Survival Gardening, which is basically how to create drip irrigation with buckets and hoses, to grow vegetables. We do equip them with the materials they need, but we make them demonstrate that they’re committed to doing the work. SO YOU’RE REALLY TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO HELP THEMSELVES. Exactly. We want to give a sense of agency back to these people; to remind them that they do have
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Although Hudson is fully employed by Rise Up Malawi, he still farms to help feed his family.
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talents and skills and that they can learn, and they can do things for themselves. We want them to understand they can provide for their families, and they’re not going to need aid forever. You know, my goal is not to be around as an organization forever. I hope that at some point we fade out because these people are self-sustainable and self-reliant.
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Prairie Hill, a member of the American Society for Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG), is gearing up for agritourism on a small scale. “There is a resurgence of people wanting to know how to garden,” Lisa says. People were so tired and lonely during the pandemic. Post COVID, people want to come out and be part of a community. “Flowers connect with people where they are every day and I love sharing that with others.”
The farm creates space for just that and continues to grow new opportunities to share with the commu nity. Lisa and her husband are in the process of com pleting their barn, which will serve as a flower studio and have an indoor/outdoor event space for flower arranging classes as well as bridal and baby showers.
Lisa’s passion for flowers is obvious as we walk through the brightly colored rows and she talks through the growing process. Prairie Hill uses a seed starting method called soil blocking, where up to 20 starter plants are grown in 4”x4” squares of soil under lights in Lisa’s base ment prior to being transplanted outside. The farm uses all sustainable practices, with no pesticides or chemicals to ensure that our pollinator friends are safe and healthy. The resident goats eat the remains of spent flower beds and chickens keep the pests at bay. The goat and chicken waste is then composted and that compost is used to feed the new flowers, creating a closed-loop cycle!
To learn more about Prairie Hill Flower Co., order flowers, or find out about their upcoming events, visit their website at prairiehillflowerco.com
“We get comments all the time about how long our flowers last. We cut them one day and they are out the door the next day.”
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In the meantime, Lisa hosts events on the porch of her home, looking out over the garden and roll ing hills. She currently has You-Pick flower events at the end of each month through October where you can learn about the flowers that are in season, cut your own flowers, arrange them, and take them home to enjoy. Prairie Hill Flower Co. is a full-ser vice floral company, delivering flower arrange ments to Parker and the surrounding areas. Lisa is also booking weddings through 2023. She works with brides to curate and grow flowers to match their wedding color palette and then creates beau tiful arrangements for the big day.
A quick 15-minute drive from downtown Parker is where you will find the aptly named Prairie Hill Flower Company at the top of a hill overlooking the beautiful Douglas County countryside with a view of the Rocky Mountains. Owner, Lisa Frahm, started Prairie Hill Flower Company in the spring of 2020 and is the only florist in the Denver metro area that grows its own flowers. “We get comments all the time about how long our flowers last,” Lisa says. “We cut them one day and they are out the door the next day.”
Lisa’s background is in architecture, but she always wanted to be a florist and to do something that could incorporate being with her kids, Morgan (age 9) and Mason (age 6). Her mom ran a landscap ing business and her grandfather was a farmer in Nebraska. Her grandfather used to visit her in Colorado every mother’s day and make her go out side to plant her garden. “You could say this busi ness is in my blood,” laughs Lisa.
“There is a resurgence of people wanting to know how to garden. Flowers connect with people where they are every day and I love sharing that with others.” MUST SEE | LOCAL SERVICES40
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Scottsdale enjoys more than 330 sunny days each year, which means pool season runs year-round. And, go up, up and away in a hot air balloon. Rainbow Ryders Hot Air Balloon Company boasts nearly four decades of experience offering hot-air balloon rides.
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Join nonprofit KNOCK KNOCK Angels for their fundraising event. Come dressed in your best denim and bling. This nonprofit helps unhoused veterans and their families. The evening will include a silent auction, live mu sic, food trucks, an electric bull and some other surprises. To learn more and purchase your tickets for this great cause: KKACOORG.com
Join the 5th Annual all-inclusive Castle Rock Beer fest. Enjoy beer from over 20 breweries plus some distill eries, plus 6+ food trucks prepare hors d'oeuvre size portions of their signature meals, and you can taste as much as you want. Then settle in for outstanding music featuring funk band Wildlove Tigress and amazing headliner That Arena Rock Show.
Shopping Extravaganza is a day full of shopping, prizes, and fun, all to raise money for non-profit organiza tions in our local community. Tickets are $30 each, and $20 of each ticket sold goes back to the participating non-profit of your choice. Each ticket includes Exclusive Discounts and Activities, and VIP wine tasting with a catered lunch.
3rd Annual Palmer Lake Wine Festival
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Spend your day in the hidden gem of Colorado, beautiful Palmer Lake, enjoying generous wine tastings from 25 Colorado wineries. Listen to live music and enjoy food & gift vendors while you sample delicious wines and enjoy the beautiful views.
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A beautiful masquerade party benefiting Mental Health Colorado. There will be an auction, hors d'oeuvres, a reception, and cocktails. Hear from special guest, Missy Franklin, a five-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
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33rd Annual Castle Rock ArtFest
The Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce hosts a juried fine art show with artists from across the country. This esteemed community art festival continues to highlight the talents of exhibitors displaying a wide range of works from life-size sculptures to photography and jewelry. Admission is free!
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Sundown Colorado is Denver’s first sober music festival that focuses on mindfulness, wellness, and connect ing to each other through music. This “party positive” event boasts local artists and vendors, guided medita tions at the healing tent, and EDM performances. There will be live performances, art installations, a detox bar with IVs, elixirs, wellness services, and a sober bar with non-alcoholic cocktails. to be featured? Get in touch by heading over to our landing page to connect: CityLifestyle.com/CastleRock
Celebrate summer's abundance and welcome autumn at Oktoberfest. This is the biggest event of the season for the DMA! The Castle Rock Oktoberfest is hosted the same day as the German Oktoberfest begins. There will be beer, food, inflatables, and more! Admission is free, Beer tokens for sale. Bines and Brews
LIMBACH PARK, MONUMENT 1:00 PM beer, gin, wine, spirits, and moonshine while listening to upbeat contemporary jazz from New Vintage Jazz. Ticket sales are capped at 400 to maintain the upscale feel and allow you to have conversations with the brewers. To purchase tickets and learn more visit: tri.lakes.chamberofcommerce.com
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