Description
Start Date-End Date: 09/15/2022-09/15/2022
Land Manager Office: Grow Local Colorado
Land Manager Contact: Barbara Masoner
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Summary: Help maintain vegetable gardens in Civic Center Park.
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 Return Peace Corps Volunteers. All harvest from these two gardens supports The Gathering Place, a drop-in center for women, children and transgender individuals experiencing poverty or homelessness.
What You'll Do:
VOC is excited to team up with our long-term partner, Grow Local Colorado, to plant and harvest vegetable gardens that demonstrate the beauty of edible gardens, engage community participation, and inspire Denver residents to grow their own vegetable gardens. On this project, you will help maintain a vegetable garden and harvest ripe produce that was planted earlier this year by VOC volunteers. Volunteer work will be fun, easy, and child-friendly.
Why It Matters:
The vegetables that volunteers plant 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 128,000 people in more than 1,000 volunteer projects for a donated labor value of $26 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: 39.739524724600365, -104.98956304642688
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 15
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 6
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 6
Total Unique Volunteers: 6
Total Volunteer Hours: 17
Staff Hours: 4
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: small project, 6 volunteers, some left early and some arrived late. All walked over from their office downtown.
Successes and Challenges: Successes
Harvested 50 lbs
Barb left volunteers take home basil, and spent the last 15 min. of the project explaining some of the less common plants or edibles in the gardens. Was educational and fun!
Challenges
Change meeting spot for the project, don't put near the McNicols Building because it's hard to see people. Instead in the middle of the gardens area is a nice, very visible spot. Less shade, but easier to find being in the center of the park.
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