http://www.growingcolorado.org Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 2012 Volunteers Wanted http://www.growingcolorado.org/2012/02/2012-volunteers-wanted/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2012/02/2012-volunteers-wanted/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:01:18 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=686 Hello, it has been a while but we feel Spring in the air!  We are happy to be planning for our fourth growing season, thanks to a donation by Bakers Creek Heirloom Seed  http://rareseeds.com/ (please support them) we are preparing seed flats and dreaming of Spring.  We grew 678 pounds of produce in 2011, we really think it was more since so much was picked and eaten before it had a chance to get weighed.  We will have 20 youth participating this season, and everyone from last season is excited to return. 

We need your help

We are in need of gardeners, cooks, and all others interested in building our community. 

Volunteer shifts are Wednesday evenings 4:00-7:00 and Saturday sessions 10:00-2:00, as well as other times that are TBD, all volunteers must complete a criminal background check with our umbrella organization Colorado Nonprofit Development Center.

If you are interested in joining us please contact Denise Lines at deniselines@yahoo.com, or 720-685-3172. 

Thanks again and lookout for more updates…remember us on Facebook!  D

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We also had a party this week for one of our friends, Lauren, who has been with us for long time…ever since GCK started. We had to throw a party, because she leaving for Macao to teach for a whole year.  All of GCK will miss her and she promises to FB us and tell us about her adventures….we will miss you Lauren…..Anyway we all brought home some vegetables and even our volunteers had some shares too. It was great all the kids were happy to take vegetables home. We are looking forward to the next week.  Most of the kids are fasting this month because it is Ramadan. Thanks
Amina.S

]]> http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/08/saying-goodbye/feed/ 0 Lunch Fresh From The Garden http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/08/lunch-fresh-from-the-garden/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/08/lunch-fresh-from-the-garden/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:59:27 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=669 We had a lot of things that we harvested this week like broccoli, Bush beans, Cabbage, Caul flower, onions, Eggplants and some other things.We also had a challenge to use 3 three vegetables that we harvested for lunch, which we did.When I asked people about how they felt about the day they said  that the lunch was delicious and the vegetables were good too,because they were fresh and just had been harvested.The work that we did in the gardens was not hard but because it was hot it made it hard to work.When we were done the gardens looked really good.Thanks for Reading my blog 
BY Anifa
]]> http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/08/lunch-fresh-from-the-garden/feed/ 0 HI Everyone http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/07/hi-everyone/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/07/hi-everyone/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:28:32 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=662 Hi everyone it is Amina writing the blog for the week. Well everything is going great this season, everybody is stepping up with their work and being on time and communicating with each other pretty well. Last Saturday we all went to the Same Cafe and ate lunch there. The food was great all the kids like the meal.

I mean GCK is real great we are having a really fun Season this year, the gardens are doing fine and it is great and it is amazing. We are going to start harvesting soon hopeful we will have a lot vegetables

2011 GCK

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Thank you

Amina!

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-By Anifa

]]> http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/04/amina-winning-9news-kids-who-care/feed/ 0 Thank You National Youth Gardening Association and Front Range Organic Gardener http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/04/thank-you-national-youth-gardening-association-and-front-range-organic-gardener/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/04/thank-you-national-youth-gardening-association-and-front-range-organic-gardener/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:01:52 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=652 Growing Colorado Kids would like to thank The National Youth Association and The Front Range Organic Gardener for choosing Growing Colorado Kids. Front Range Organic Gardeners thank you for giving us 300 dollars we really appreciate it so thank you. National Youth Gardening Association Thank you for giving us gardening books, Seeds, and A  $500 home depot gift card, The Books will help us learn new things about gardening, the $500 gift card will help buy new tools and other things that we will need throughout the season, Thank you once again we really appreciate it.

-By Anifa

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-By Anifa

]]> http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/04/new-volunteers/feed/ 0 Thank You Paragon Theatre http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/02/thank-you-paragon-theatre/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/02/thank-you-paragon-theatre/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:41:51 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=604 GCK would like to thank the Paragon Theatre for the support in fundraising!  Next time you want to go out for an evening please remember our friends at the Paragon! 

“On Friday February 4 Denver’s Paragon Theater will be donating 75 percent of ticket sales of Neil LaBute’s latest bristling comedy, reasons to be pretty, to Growing Colorado Kids, a small nonprofit based in Park Hill.

Paragon Theater, is presenting reasons to be pretty at Kim Robards Dance, 1387 S. Santa Fe St. Paragon is celebrating its tenth anniversary this season and continues its mission “…to illuminate the human experience with unflinching courage and truth.”

http://www.paragontheatre.com/reasonstobepretty.php

]]> http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/02/thank-you-paragon-theatre/feed/ 0 GCK partners with CNDC http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/02/gck-partners-with-cndc/ http://www.growingcolorado.org/2011/02/gck-partners-with-cndc/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:37:58 +0000 admin http://www.growingcolorado.org/?p=600 We are excited and honored to now be partnered with Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, CNDC. CNDC’s mission is is to foster the development of a healthy and vibrant nonprofit sector in Colorado by enhancing the effective and efficient use of community resources and by supporting the development of charitable projects and nonprofits. We applied and were accepted in December of 2010 and our relationship began January 2011. This will really assist in GCK growing as an organization. The support and education we have already received from CNDC and their staff has had a great positive impact on us. We look forward to learning and partnering with CNDC! For more information on CNDC go to http://www.cndc.org/.
By Denise

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