by Grow Local Volunteer - Amber Mead
It was overcast with temps in the 70's today as I headed out to take a peek at the GLC gardens. My first stop was at Barnum Park and I was immediately excited when I saw the tomato plants bearing a good amount of fruit and some of the squash ready for harvesting.
I was transported back to my childhood and our family garden, which gave us plenty of produce for canning and stews, keeping us stocked through the winter. Fall is a time when our harvests are plentiful, the smells in the air take us to our favorite food memories, and we contemplate how we will transition our meal preparation for the cooler weather. Our Colorado community is fortunate that there are individuals setting aside time so that others can have access to quality produce, ensuring that they too will partake in some of autumn's sensory experiences.
As I mentioned earlier, the garden at Barnum Park has tomatoes on the rise. There is still rainbow swiss chard, onion, squash, and hot peppers for harvesting. The basil has fully flowered and there are a few eggplants that are yielding fruit. A group of GLC volunteers devoted five hours and harvested forty-one pounds of produce from this garden in the past week.
As I mentioned earlier, the garden at Barnum Park has tomatoes on the rise. There is still rainbow swiss chard, onion, squash, and hot peppers for harvesting. The basil has fully flowered and there are a few eggplants that are yielding fruit. A group of GLC volunteers devoted five hours and harvested forty-one pounds of produce from this garden in the past week.
My next stop was the garden at Huston Lake Park. This is such a lovely, plentiful garden with some wonderful looking produce! It is full of tomatoes and beets that line the perimeter, while varieties of greens, squash and peppers fill the center of the garden. Over the past week, volunteers contributed a total of 24 hours of work and harvested over 136 pounds of produce from the Huston Lake Park garden. As you can see, this garden puts forth a great amount of produce and will continue to need some helping hands!
The garden at Observatory Park is showing its colors with dahlias framing the edges and corn shooting up out of the center. It is not a large garden, but there are plenty of plants packed into the space. In addition to the corn, the garden boasts hearty tomato plants, squash, a couple of pepper plants, and some swiss chard. Volunteers harvested fifty pounds of produce from the garden this past week.
The final stop on my garden tour was the Civic Center Park garden in downtown Denver. This little garden is becoming sparse, but continues to yield a good variety of produce. The squash is beginning to fade, however, there is new swiss chard popping up, the onion is going strong, and there is still a good amount of green basil.
As we move into the fall season, our latest news will keep you posted on the progress of the gardens and the great work being done by GLC volunteers. If you are looking to volunteer some time to GLC, there will be a crop mob working at the garden at Governor's Mansion, where volunteers harvested ten pounds of produce this past week, from 6-8 pm on Wednesday, September 22nd.
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