Free Seeds and Transplants

Free Seeds and Transplants applications are available now!

Our Free Seeds and Transplants program provides vegetable seeds and starts to over 5,000 individuals each year, helping those in-need stretch their food budgets by growing their own fresh, healthy produce. The deadline to apply is February 1st, 2012, and seeds and plants are delivered to neighborhood distribution centers in March and May, respectively. 

Click here to learn more about this program, including how to find your nearest distribution center. 

Note: We are currently seeking volunteers for this program! Click here to learn more. 

Helping Kids Get Healthy

A Workshop Series for Youth Educators

These unique workshops are designed for teachers and volunteers who work in youth education programs that focus on nutrition and gardening. Join DUG’s Education Team to learn different ways to use your school garden and how to teach hands-on lessons in gardening and nutrition. Workshops are offered seasonally, and each workshop highlights unique, seasonally-appropriate lessons from DUG’s School Garden and Nutrition Curriculum. Each workshop includes a garden-related lesson, a nutrition lesson and a snack component.

Click here to learn more about this program.

Give to community gardens, and make a world of difference!

Community gardens are one of the most powerful tools we have to create lasting change in our neighborhoods. Giving to Denver Urban Gardens means creating lasting, positive changes at the neighborhood level, allowing individuals of all ages and backgrounds to fight hunger and poor nutrition, and improve their lives and neighborhoods. 

Donate now, and join us in coming alongside residents to create a healthier, more food secure community. 

Community Gardens and Health

Since 2004, Denver Urban Gardens and the Colorado School of Public Health have worked together, through the Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities (GGHC) community-based research initiative, to explore how gardens, as neighborhood places, support healthy living. In short, the results of this research partnership have shown what community gardeners have known all along- that community gardens are good for neighborhoods!

Click here to learn more about this important research.