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Monday
Jul182011

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.

Read the full article here!

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