Description
Start Date-End Date: 10/06/2022-10/06/2022
Land Manager Office: Grow Local Colorado
Land Manager Contact: Barbara Masoner
Funding Partner: Grow Local Colorado
Programmatic Partner: Grow Local Colorado
Summary: Harvest a vegetable garden with Grow Local Colorado! For volunteers ages 6+.
Description: Where You'll Be:
Observatory Park is a small, yet spacious park near the University of Denver (DU) campus. Home to DU's historic Chamberlin Observatory, the park also boasts century-old trees, an extensive playground area, and vast open fields perfect for picnicking or a pickup game of Frisbee.
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 8+ will spend the evening harvesting the veggie garden in Denver's Observatory Park. Grow Local maintained the gardens throughout the summer and VOC is returning to help harvest the vegetables, which will be donated to local residents in need.
Anyone that attends a VOC volunteer opportunity in August, September, and October will be entered in a drawing for the chance to win a $300 SCHEELS Gift Card. The more opportunities you attend, the more entries you will earn. Good luck!
Why It Matters:
The vegetables that volunteers harvest will be 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: 39.67539033964143, -104.95297853781337
Additional Information: To organize carpooling please visithttps://www.groupcarpool.com/t/emjw7q
Please determine the following amongst yourselves:
1. Pick up location
2.When you leave
3. Vaccination status
4. Mask usage
VOC suggests coordinating carpooling in the safest way possible and encouraging a mask friendly policy in your cars. If you have any issues finding a rider or a ride, please feel free to reach out tooutreach@voc.org. Happy volunteering!
Please determine the following amongst yourselves:
1. Pick up location
2.When you leave
3. Vaccination status
4. Mask usage
VOC suggests coordinating carpooling in the safest way possible and encouraging a mask friendly policy in your cars. If you have any issues finding a rider or a ride, please feel free to reach out tooutreach@voc.org. Happy volunteering!
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 10
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 9
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 2
Total Volunteer Days: 10
Total Unique Volunteers: 11
Total Volunteer Hours: 12
Staff Hours: 8
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: Volunteers did a great job harvesting this garden and planting cover crops. Our partner, Barbara, seemed thrilled with the work they accomplished and we were able to harvest 43lbs of veggies (mostly leafy greens) to donate to the local food bank. Volunteers were able to take home plants such as basil and marigolds.
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