Description
Start Date-End Date: 09/14/2021-09/14/2021
Land Manager Office: City and County of Denver - Parks and Recreation
Land Manager Contact: Barbara Masoner
Funding Partner: Marathon (formerly Andeavor)
Programmatic Partner: Grow Local Colorado
Summary: Spend an evening tending to a vegetable garden in one of Denver's city parks!
Description: Where You'll Be:
Bordered by the State Capitol, the City and County Building, and the Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Park is the centerpiece of Denver's green space. The park blooms with 25,000 square feet of flower beds each summer and serves as a popular event site. Civic Center Park also hosts two Grow Local Colorado gardens, both of which are maintained primarily by Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and Return Peace Corps Volunteers. All harvest from the four garden beds supports local food banks, homeless shelters, and people and families in need.
What You'll Do:
This is an easy and rewarding way to get outside and give back to your community. Volunteers will have the opportunity to tend a donation food garden in Denver's Civic Center Park, managed by our partner Grow Local Colorado.
Why It Matters:
The produce that volunteers planted in the spring will be harvested throughout the growing season and donated to local food banks, homeless shelters, and families in need. This partnership with Grow Local Colorado creates a more connected community; demonstrates the beauty and efficacy of edible gardens; inspires residents to plant their own vegetable gardens; and contributes to a more sustainable food chain by reducing our carbon footprint.
About Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC)
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) is the state's oldest, largest, and leading outdoor stewardship nonprofit organization. Founded in 1984 to motivate and enable people to become active stewards of Colorado's natural resources, VOC has engaged nearly 125,000 people in more than 1,000 volunteer projects for a donated labor value of $25 million. Through award-winning youth and volunteer programs, leadership training, capacity-building programs, and collaborative efforts with nonprofits and land management agencies, VOC is an invaluable resource in Colorado, especially as our outdoor stewardship needs are approaching near-crisis levels. For more information, visit www.voc.org or call 303-715-1010.
Latitude/Longitude: 39.739240, -104.988833
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 10
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 5
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days:
Total Unique Volunteers: 5
Total Volunteer Hours: 12.5
Staff Hours: 0
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: 5 volunteers, we were able to tend and maintain to two garden beds and harvest a total of 16 lbs. of fresh produce. The produce went toMetro Caring, one of Denver's frontline anti-hunger organizations, and straight into their Fresh Food Market. This market can be accessed by those in need at no-cost, providing them with a week's supply of groceries, including fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy and protein.
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