As COVID-19 continued to impact our schools and gardens through summer 2021, volunteers and community partners rose to the occasion, coming together on projects, planting and harvesting produce for food banks and building up our community and schools. Without their support, many of our gardens and farms would have grown into fields of weeds and would have missed opportunities to provide much needed food assistance to our students and families. If you are interested in volunteering in a DPS Garden for a single day or an entire season email christopher_woodburn@dpsk12.net. Here are just a few of the organizations and volunteers that had a huge impact on DPS this past summer:
- Families work together at Teller ES
- Swigert students plant their garden on their Day of Service
- Volunteers from Evolve Vacation Rentals after a spring workday at Steele ES
- Mile High United Way volunteers at Garden Place Academy
- Band-It volunteers working hard at Garden Place Academy
- Delta Dental and Denver Urban Gardens cleared weeds and built new beds at Ellis ES
- Lincoln Hills Cares interns worked at three DPS gardens and the farm at Smiley
- Lincoln Hills Cares prepare the farm at Smiley
- Lincoln Hills Cares interns prepare the Farm at Smiley for planting.
- Volunteers from Dataiku tacked the giant garden at JFK HS
- DAM at Columbian ES
- Volunteers from the Denver Art Museum worked to prepare the gardens at Columbian ES, TJ and JFK high schools
- Families transplant seedlings at McKinley-Thatcher ES
- The Major League Baseball Association planted trees and built pathways at Morey MS leading up the the All Star Game
- Dinger move mulch in the garden at Morey
- The MLB Association volunteers after their workday at Morey
- Fox volunteers plant trees to shade an outdoor classroom area at Maxwell ES
- Garden of Youth interns work in the garden at Maxwell ES.
A huge shout out to all our community partners for supporting DPS gardens, our schools and our community. Special thanks to Lincoln Hills Cares, Denver Urban Gardens, SustainEd Farms, Grow Local Colorado, Focus Points Family Resource Center, International Rescue Committee, and Spirit of the Sun.
