Description
Start Date-End Date: 06/01/2021-06/01/2021
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Programmatic Partner: Grow Local Colorado
Summary: THIS PROJECT IS WAITLISTED: Plant vegetable gardens with Grow Local Colorado! For volunteers 8+.
Description: Read Before You Register! Need-to-Know Details:
We greatly appreciate you volunteering your time and energy to care for Colorado's outdoor places during COVID-19. To help provide a fun and safe experience for all, there are a few temporary changes to be prepared for:
You may only register yourself. Every volunteer must sign our digital COVID-specific forms ahead of time to be able to attend.
You must provide your own food. VOC will not be providing meals at this time.
You must bring work gloves. Please click here for our full packing list of required and recommended items.
If you are fully vaccinated, you may work without a mask. If you are not yet fully vaccinated or if you prefer to wear a mask for any reason, please continue to wear a mask on VOC projects. We will have spare masks available if needed.
Cancellation & Waitlists: Due to limited spots on this year's projects, we expect projects to fill quickly with waitlists. If you need to cancel, please email outreach@voc.org as soon as possible so we can free your spot for another volunteer and have a full workforce. If you are waitlisted for multiple projects, please call us at 303-715-1010 ext. 116 and we can help you find an open project, if available.
Where You'll Be:
Christ the King Lutheran Church, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has a proud history in the Harvey Park neighborhood of Southwest Denver dating back to its founding in 1956. The congregation was originally rooted in the rapid growth of the neighborhood in the late 1950's. They have partnered with Grow Local Colorado since 2018 and their plot is a wonderful example of how productive sheet mulch gardening can be.
What You'll Do:
Looking for an easy way to get outside and give back to your community? Look no further! Through our long-standing partnership with Grow Local Colorado, volunteers ages 10+ will spend the evening preparing and planting vegetables at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Denver's Harvey Park neighborhood. While Grow Local and Christ the King community will maintain the gardens throughout the summer, VOC will return in the fall to help harvest the vegetables, which will be donated to local residents in need.
Please Note: These evening gardening projects are very popular and have limited space. We ask that you please give others the chance to participate by signing up for just one gardening project this Spring. Thank you!
Why It Matters:
The vegetables that volunteers plant will be harvested in the fall 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 126,000 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: 39.67445, -105.03818
Additional Information: Please bring a well-fitted face mask and work gloves.
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 8
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 8
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 8
Total Unique Volunteers: 8
Total Volunteer Hours: 24
Staff Hours: 5
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: On Monday, June 1st, a group of 8 volunteers came out to help plant the large sheet mulch bed at Christ the King Lutheran Church. VOC and Grow Local Colorado to help plant seeds and starter plants for the growing season. The volunteers spent the time planting a variety of veggies including but not limited to tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, beans that will be donated to Community Ministry, a food pantry that serves the needs of people in Southwest Denver. Volunteers got everything planted in record time and helped set up much-needed hail protection. On average this garden plot will yield 800-1,000 lbs of fresh produce.
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Stewardship Education: Volunteers learned garden tips and tricks as well as the benefits of sheet mulching!
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