Learn to Compost!
In partnership with Denver Recycles, Denver Urban Gardens offers free composting workshops 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, and are taught by Master Composter volunteers.
Each compost class is a two-hour, hands-on workshop in the basics of backyard composting. Worm Workshops are special classes that cover vermicomposting techniques (perfect for classrooms and apartments!). 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.
Classes are now open for registration! 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.
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.
