Growing Gardens of Boulder County, Colorado

WELCOME
Welcome to Growing Gardens, we manage seven Community Gardens in the City of Boulder and one Community Garden in the City of Louisville. Map to the locations of all the gardens.

Growing Gardens is pleased to announce four internship positions for the spring of 2009:
¡Cultiva! Market Garden Assistant -- Spring Internship
Community Greenhouse Grower -- Spring Internship
Environmental Education Assistant for Children's Gardening Program -- Spring Internship
Non-Profit Development, Marketing and Event Planning Intern

More internship information

2008 Garden Contest Winners!
Stop by the eight community gardens and check out the winners from our July garden contest. Locations of all eight gardens. Winning plots are marked with red signs. Plots were judged by garden leaders from different gardens on the following categories: Best use of space, Most artsy plot, Plot with the most beautiful flowers. Congratulations to the winners!
See photos of the winning plots:

Centennial Gardens	Hawthorn Gardens
Foothills Gardens	Hickory Gardens
Fortune Gardens	Holiday Gardens
Goss Grove Gardens	Kerr / Harney Lastoka Gardens

If you’d like to request a garden plot, here is the application process (link to join us) http://growinggardens.org/english/programs/communitygardens/gjoin.html

1% For The Planet

Growing Gardens is now a member of 1% For The Planet, a non-profit which provides a convenient way for corporations to donate to us. Since 2002, 1% For The Planet has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world. In return, this growing alliance of companies is given the opportunity not only to see their self-worth rise, but their net worth climb as well. Visit the 1% For the Planet's website.

Welcome to Three New Staff Members

Christopher Cross – We welcome Christopher Cross as our new Development Director. Christopher has lived in Boulder over 30 years and has strong ties to our community.
He has served as a consultant for many great nonprofits in our area and we
are very excited about the new possibilites for growth in our organization
that Christopher will be heading.

Cathy Chittum – We are happy to welcome Cathy as our new part-time Community Garden Coordinator. Cathy comes to Growing Gardens with a wealth of administrative and gardening knowledge and experience. She is a Master Gardener, Master Composter and a previous community gardener at Hawthorn.

Ben Turner – Ben has been a community gardener and volunteer through Cultiva and The Children’s Peace Garden. Ben will be joining us as the Cultiva Grower to manage the Cultiva! Youth Project’s greenhouse and field crops, and their Farmers’ Market program. Ben grew up working on a farm in Western NY, recently participated in Boulder County’s New Farmer Program, and is focused on the study of biodynamic agriculture.

Growing Gardens has a new brochure!

Download the brochure to your computer here. (PDF; file size: 1.12 MB)

eConscious Market Affiliation

Growing Gardens is pleased to announce that we have developed a business relationship with eConscious Market, an online market place of eco and socially conscious products, which allows us to participate as one of the non-profits that benefits from individual purchases made on their site. More information.

COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES

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Annual Reports for 2004-2006 are available for viewing and printing.

Find out more about our new greenhouse.