Description
Start Date-End Date: 05/26/2015-05/26/2015
Land Manager Office: Grow Local Colorado
Land Manager Contact: Barbara Masoner
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Summary: NOTE: Registration for this opportunity is FULL. If you register, you will be placed on the wait list. As space becomes available, we will move individuals off the wait list.
Description: STEWARDSHIP SITE
Urban Peak is an organization that helps homeless and at-risk youth overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a safe community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
ABOUT THE VOLUNTEER WORK
VOC returns to Urban Peak for a fourth year to continue work on a vegetable garden that offers both beauty and functionality. This project, in partnership with Grow Local Colorado, is one of several in which we will be planting vegetable gardens whose purpose is to demonstrate the beauty of edible gardens, engage community participation, and inspire Denver residents to grow their own vegetable gardens. In addition, all produce will be donated to local organizations including food banks, homeless shelters, and families in need. Volunteer work will be fun, easy, and child-friendly. Tasks will involve preparing the garden beds, weeding, working the soil, and planting vegetable seeds and seedlings.
Free dinner will be provided.
PARTNERS
Grow Local Colorado
Latitude/Longitude: 39.68682, -104.988426
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 10
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 4
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 1
Total Volunteer Days: 5
Total Unique Volunteers: 5
Total Volunteer Hours: 15
Staff Hours: 6
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: Despite a few volunteers unable to make the event, we were able to complete all the necessary weeding, reinstall the divider fencing, and plant several kinds of vegetables and tubers in the Urban Peak gardens.
Successes and Challenges: The volunteers did a great job and a handful of the Urban Peak residents expressed gratitude for our help. Due to the small size of the gardens the small turnout worked out great, as we still had enough to do but weren't finished excessively quickly.
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Stewardship Education: Barbara provided a brief rundown as to the mission of GrowLocal as well as the impacts that the program has on the lives of Urban Peak residents.
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