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[Film Showing] Fresh

Date: 
01/26/2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location

SAME Cafe
2023 E. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
 

Reginelli Rooftop

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Built six "EarthTainers" using the directions available here. - http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com. Also we had some random experiments going on in pots and one official EarthBox full of derby beans. Amazing results so far. Planted everything on May 12, 2009. 3 boxes of tomatoes, 2 to a box (all heirlooms). 1 box of sweet peppers (6 peppers to a box), 1 box with 6 brussel sprouts, 1 box (the EarthBox) with derby bush beans and a final box with 2 varieties of eggplant.

Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
19sq ft
What is your favorite part about gardening?: 
The eating part is the best, but I also love the idea of producing something beneficial for the environment and nutritional for humans on a rooftop that has been sitting unused for 104 of the 105 years since it was built in Denver. 2009 feeling fine.
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Lauren's Garden

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A couple of tomato plants, green beans, nasturtiums, green onions, and 6 or 7 different herbs, all potted and living on our back deck.

Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
5sq ft
What is your favorite part about gardening?: 
Every part! I love that I'll be cooking and feeding myself and my boyfriend with food harvested mere feet from our kitchen. Cool!

Florentine Community

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Starting small in our highrise building with 4 large containers on the patio outside our pool. Planted lettuce, squash, peppers, tomatoes, basil, and parsley to be harvested communally and used for our monthly potlucks.

Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
24sq ft

Return to our Roots

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Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
100sq ft
What is your favorite part about gardening?: 
feeling connected with nature again, the peacefulness, and doing something that matters

Holly's Garden

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some containers with herbs, in my windowsill, including basil, chives, and scallions. Hoping for some tomatoes on the roof later this summer!

Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
2sq ft
What is your favorite part about gardening?: 
watching things grow!

Chelsea's Very Ambitious Balcony Garden

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One hundred and sixty square feet of hopeful vegetable and flower producing bliss. 

Year Established: 
2009
Size: 
160sq ft
What is your favorite part about gardening?: 
At the end of the day, when I'm tired and weary from working on the computer all day, seeing the daily progress and growth of my seedlings has been an instant stress reliever. I am excited to nurture something that will nurture others. Can't wait for garden parties, pot-lucks, canning parties and community to fruit from my garden!!!
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Dunning Benedict Community Garden

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Space Information
Posting Type: 
Space Offered
Type: 
city space (between sidewalk and street)
Type: 
lawn space at business or residence

Location

Dunning Benedict Mansion
1200 Pennsylvania Street
Denver , CO, 80203

Space available to establish community garden on grounds of the Dunning Benedict Mansion located in Capitol Hill neighborhood. Looking to get started during this spring. Please contact if interested in participating.

Create an Instant Garden: Sheet Mulching Workshop

Date: 
04/23/2009 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

The R&R House
2131 York St.
Denver, CO, 80205

Learn how to build an instant garden *on top* of your lawn. No more digging, removing of sod, or building of raised beds.
We will create an instant garden in a community member's yard by imitating how a forest builds soil using the "sheet mulching" technique.
Through this method, we can plant directly into the new soil--as long as mother nature is done with her frost and snowstorms for the year.
 
Teacher:  Adam Brock (Certified Permaculture Instructor)
Location: 2131 York St. Denver, CO 80203
Investment: 15-20 Dollars, Sliding Scale

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Transition Denver Transition Denver
910 Arts Gallery The Living Earth Center The Redirect Guide

 

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