DUG Deep Roots
This year marked the formal incorporation of Denver Urban Gardens as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
What is 1985?
This popular Denver neighborhood is home to DUG’s Sustainability Park.
What is Curtis Park?
This technique improves soil health and carbon storage by layering organic matter like compost, leaves, and straw directly onto planting areas without digging.
What is sheet mulching (or lasagna gardening)?
This person's morning typically begins at 3:30am.
Who is Linda?
They are a professional tarot card reader.
Who is Nicole?
DUG’s commitment to sustainable land use includes working with this type of long-term legal arrangement to secure land access for gardens.
What is a land lease or land tenure agreement?
Denver International Airport is home to a giant statue of this animal, which tragically fell and killed its sculptor.
What is a Mustang (horse)?
This tool is often used to break up compacted soil.
What is a broadfork or garden fork?
They used to ride BMX bikes.
Who is Molly?
As a hobby, Julia creates art via this traditional printmaking technique.
What is block-printing or zine-making?
The six neighborhoods in Denver's West Area.
What are Sun Valley, Barnum, Villa Park, West Colfax, Barnum West, and Valverde?
This long, continuous street in Denver is known for its diverse architecture and history.
What is Colfax Avenue?
This drought-tolerant gardening method, popular in arid regions, uses native plants and minimal irrigation to reduce water usage.
What is xeriscaping?
This person has a sensitive gag reflex triggered almost every time they brush their teeth.
Who is Osiris?
This person apprenticed at a homestead in Washington State for 2 years.
Who is Creighton?
The person hired with Michael Bucheneau as DUG's co-Executive Director in 1994.
Who is David Rieseckas?
The name of the office that resulted from Denver's Ordinance 300 in 2020 to create a dedicated climate funding stream.
What is the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency (CASR)?
Often used in permaculture, this term refers to an elevated garden bed built with buried logs, branches, and organic material to retain moisture and nutrients.
What is a hügelkultur bed?
They are an award-winning portrait photographer in Peru.
Who is Niko?
The color of the sea kayak Nessa won on The Price is Right in 2011?
What is lime green?
DUG’s theory of change centers on transforming vacant land into thriving spaces. According to their model, this transformation leads to these three long-term community outcomes.
What are increased food security, stronger community networks, and improved environmental health?
This Denver neighborhood was once a hub for Japanese American farming, and DUG works to honor its legacy.
What is Globeville?
This term refers to a group of plants that have evolved to thrive in the same climate and soil conditions and can be planted together to create a self-sustaining system.
What is a plant guild?
In addition to guitar and banjo, Joshua has been known to play this percussion instrument.
What is a djembe (or hand drum)?
This person trained at the nation’s first urban compost field school
Who is Judy?