PBS: "IN DENVER, AN URBAN GARDEN GROWS HEALTHIER FOODS - AND ATTITUDES"

PBS produced this story about The GrowHaus on October 10, 2011.

In a low-income neighborhood in Denver, it used to be impossible to find fresh fruit or vegetables. Bordered on all sides by train tracks and highways, the 7,000 residents of Elyria-Swansea don't have a grocery store within two-and-a-half miles.

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An Oasis in an East Denver Food Desert

The GrowHaus was recently featured on Colorado Public Radio. Read or listen to the story here.

Mark Schlereth & The GrowHaus

Check out this article about former Bronco player Mark Schlereth attending our opening ceremony in August, 2011.

"People have been asking me how I got involved with Drops of Good [The Maxwell House Community Project.] I tell them it’s because of the inordinate amount of coffee I drink.”
And so begins Mark Schlereth’s introductory remarks preceding the ribbon-cutting of the newly renovated The GrowHaus.

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CBS Denver: "GrowHaus Offers Oasis Of Produce In Inner City"

This local news clip was produced in conjunction with our executive director Coby Gould's appearance at the Colorado Health Symposium alongside Growing Power's Will Allen.

A Pile of Green to Fertilize Seeds of Hope

Check out this colorful column article that appeared in the Denver Post on July 11, 2011. The article acknowledges our recent victory in the Maxwell House Drops of Good Contest, which secured $50,000 in renovation for the GrowHaus. It also highlights and presents the impact we have had on community members through education and training.

Cole English, 19, is in her second summer working at GrowHaus, having graduated from the Seed to Seed program last year. She is in the farmer-in-training program.

She heard Colby Gould speak two years ago in one of her classes at East High School.

"I got so excited by what he was saying," she remembered. "It made me want to learn how to grow my own food. I had never before heard how to make food happen, and how delicious it could be."

Now enrolled at the Community College of Denver, English said her goal is to one day own a farm.

"Being here, it has changed my life," she said.

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