Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 2:56PM
Denver Urban Gardens is partnering with the City of Denver to build a community garden near East High School. Michael (DUG’s Executive Director) described the project and the upswing in interest community gardening and urban agriculture in an interview with Westword.
“It’s a popular thing to think about right now, for all manner of reasons,” he says. “Urban gardens are a way to connect with your neighbors, and they are very grounded in terms of getting your hands dirty. It’s meaningful and purposeful…It’s connected definitely to the urban food movement… and it’s a way of getting healthier from a lot of different angles.”
East High classes will be working in the garden this coming spring, and Buchenau hopes it could become a permanent part of the landscape, even after the rec center is finally built. “That is my wish,” he says. “Gardens become very permanent places in the community’s mind.”
Read the full article here.
