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Fast Facts:
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Address:
13th Avenue between Yosemite and Xenia Sts.
Neighborhood: East Colfax
Number of plots: 25
Average size of plots:
10’ X 12’
Year founded: 2005
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To Connect with a Garden:
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Contact
Denver Urban Gardens
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303-292-9900.
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East
13th Avenue Community Garden
The East 13th Avenue Garden provides
valuable communal outdoor space for a diverse neighborhood
including a large Somali Bantu refugee population.
Why We Love Our Garden:
This fairly new garden offers important
teaching and learning opportunities. Although language barriers
can make communication challenging, the garden is a place where
the native and refugee populations are learning to work
together. Through this combined effort, the garden members have
created an area of growth and life that everyone enjoys. The
strong family ties of the African refugees are apparent, and
children and parents work the plots together, both generations
taking pride in what they have created.
The East 13th Avenue Garden progresses
daily, and members look forward to the upcoming installation of
personalized benches painted by the youth program.
