Grow Local Colorado is looking for volunteers to help develop and maintain a vegetable garden in Highland Gateway Park. To sign up, visit their website.
Under a stewardship agreement with Denver Parks and Rec, the all-volunteer Grow Local Colorado will be raising produce in six flower beds within Denver parks to demonstrate how easily fresh produce can be grown. After a successful pilot project in Civic Center Park last year, this program has been expended to six beds in four parks. All the harvested produce will be donated to local organizations that focus on feeding those in need, including Food Bank of the Rockies, EarthLinks, Gathering Place, GrowHaus, Lambuth Family Center, Mount Saint Vincent Home, Same Café, and Urban Peak.
Highland Gateway Park sits at the intersection of 20th and Central Streets, just across from the on/off ramps to I-25 and about two blocks from the Mile High United Way headquarters.
The Grow Local Colorado Campaign is a project of Transition Denver founded with the Living Earth Center, Denver Botanic Gardens and the Mile High Business Alliance. The goal of the campaign is to promote local food, local economy and local community. Visit their website to find information about organic gardening, sharing garden spaces, classes about sustainable living, the latest news about the local food movement, and other organizations that support the Grow Local campaign.
