Learn to Compost!

With the growing season creeping up on us, now is the perfect time to learn the basics of composting! Join Denver Urban Gardens, in partnership with Denver Recycles, for free classes in composting several times a month from April through October. All public compost classes are hosted at the compost demonstration site at our Gove Community Garden, located at 13th and Colorado in Denver. 

Each compost class is a two-hour, hands-on workshop in the basics of backyard composting. Worm Workshops are special classes that cover vermicomposting (perfect for apartment dwellers!) techniques. Build-A-Pile Workshops are special classes in which participants help to build an entire compost pile, and receive hands-on experience in incorporating different materials into a compost pile, chopping ingredients, watering, and turning the pile. 

All workshops will be open for registration one month before each class date. You can find a list of class dates here. 

Questions? Contact us here or call us at 303.292.9900!

Learn to compost!

Did you know that Denver Urban Gardens offers free composting workshops all summer long? Each compost class is a two-hour, hands-on workshop in the basics of backyard composting. Classes in vermicomposting and pile-building are also available. 

Click here to view the schedule, or register for a workshop!

Free classes are made possible through a partnership with Denver Recycles. 

Campus Composting

Compost Auraria is a group of volunteer composting advocates representing all three insitutions on Auraria campus. They're working toward a campus-wide composting program, starting with a pilot program in the Tivoli Food Court. Check out yesterday's news coverage of their efforts:

Shawn Hendrickson is a graduate of the Master Composter program that Denver Urban Gardens operates in partnership with Denver Recycles. The primary goal of that program is to train community members in the ins and outs of composting, and in turn, equip Master Composters to share their skills with the greater community. Props to Shawn and members of Compost Auraria for doing such a fantastic job bringing their knowledge and enthusiasm to the staff and students at the Auraria campus. To learn more about Compost Auraria, click here. To learn more about the Master Composter program, click here.

Are you ready to start composting at home? Denver Urban Gardens also offers free public compost trainings beginning in May (check back in April for a schedule!), and resource sheets on the basics of composting. 

Online Gardening Resources

DUG's gardening resource sheets are now available online!

 Click here for a directory of resource sheets and helpful links on:

• Organic gardening
• Organic Pest and weed control
• Crop rotation, companion planting, when to plant
• Soil amendment, fertility, and quality
• Extending the season, putting the garden to bed, etc.
• Water conservation
• Harvesting, preserving foods, and saving seeds
• Composting 

Working with kids? Our complete standards-based school garden and nutrition curriculum is also available online. Click here to view school garden curriculum. 

Get your hands dirty!

Thanks to Master Composter Stacy Feeney, we now have a basic guide to composting available online. Click here to view Composting Basics, or click here to download the guide as a pdf.

We also offer free composting classes in partnership with Denver Recycles. These classes are held at our Compost Demonstration Site at Gove Community Garden (13th and Colorado Boulevard). Click here to register. 

Interested in becoming a Denver Urban Gardens Master Composter? Click here for more information.