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Denver Urban Gardens Cultivating food, community, and climate resilience in metro Denver.

10/12/2026

🧄 If you’re planting garlic this fall, here’s a quick guide for your Colorado garden:

✨ Garlic can do more than provide a delicious harvest! Try planting it along the borders of your garden beds as part of your companion planting strategy. Its strong scent may help discourage some garden pests while making good use of space. 🪲

🧄 Plant individual cloves pointy side up, cover with soil, and add a layer of mulch to help protect them through the winter. Think of it as a little underground investment: plant now, harvest later. 🌱

💧 Water after planting to ensure germination, then throughout winter if snowpack is low ❄️

⛰️ For the Colorado Front Range (USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a), we recommend planting your garlic mid-October to early November depending on the variety!

Save this post for garlic-planting season (and share with your gardener friends!) 🧑🏽‍🌾

🌱 Your giving can help grow more than a garden.It’s ! On October 8, donors across the country are coming together to us...
10/08/2026

🌱 Your giving can help grow more than a garden.

It’s ! On October 8, donors across the country are coming together to use their donor-advised funds to support the causes and communities they care about.

Your DAF gift can help:
🥕 Grow healthy, hyperlocal food
🌻 Support community gardens and food forests
🐝 Create habitat for pollinators
🌎 Regenerate urban soil and build climate resilience
💚 Bring neighbors together around shared spaces

Already have a DAF? Make DUG part of your giving plan this .

Not sure how DAF giving works? A donor-advised fund is a charitable giving account that lets you contribute assets to a fund and recommend grants to nonprofits like DUG over time. Talk with your financial advisor or DAF provider to learn more.

🌱 Give through your DAF and help keep Denver growing.

🔗 Learn more about giving to DUG: dug.org/give/

🌱 Come celebrate a garden that brings a school community together!DUG is teaming up with SustainEd Farms for the George...
10/05/2026

🌱 Come celebrate a garden that brings a school community together!

DUG is teaming up with SustainEd Farms for the George Washington Garden Celebration—a free, all-ages afternoon celebrating the joy, creativity, and connection that grow in school gardens.

Join us for:
🌿 Fresh herb workshops
🎨 Garden-inspired art projects
🎲 Garden bingo + games
🥕 Light refreshments
💚 Plenty of time to connect and enjoy the garden

The details:
📅 Thursday, October 15
⏰ 3:15–5:00 PM
📍 George Washington High School, 655 S Monaco St Pkwy
🎟️ Please RSVP at https://www.sustainedfarms.org/event-details/george-washington-garden-celebration/form

Whether you pop in for a few minutes or stay for the whole celebration, we’d love to see you there!

🌟 Announcing our 2026 Gather 'Round Impact Award Recipients! 🌟This year we're honoring three incredible organizations ma...
09/23/2026

🌟 Announcing our 2026 Gather 'Round Impact Award Recipients! 🌟

This year we're honoring three incredible organizations making a real difference in our community:

🌱 City Park Greenhouse — Food Pillar, presented by Snooze, an A.M. Eatery
🦷 Delta Dental — Community Pillar, presented by TIAA
💧 Aurora Water — Climate Pillar, presented by Tractor Beverage Co.

Join us as we celebrate their impact around food, community, and climate–one week to go until Gather 'Round! 🎉 Tickets linked in our bio!

09/22/2026

Garlic bulbs have been delivered! 🧄

Now’s the time to buy yours for fall planting...and we have plenty of hardneck and softneck varieties to choose from:
🧄 Chesnok Red – a hardneck garlic prized for its rich, sweet flavor that holds up beautifully when roasted or baked. Produces large bulbs with 9–10 easy-to-peel cloves and striking purple-striped wrappers. Plant mid-October to Early November. Harvest in midsummer. Stores 4–6 months.
🧄 Korean Red – a flavorful hardneck garlic with a mild citrus note that becomes sweet when roasted. Produces 9–12 red-striped cloves per bulb and is an early, dependable producer. Plant mid-October to Early November. Harvest in early to midsummer. Stores 4–6 months.
🧄 Inchelium Red – a dependable softneck heirloom with a rich, balanced flavor and excellent storage. Produces large bulbs that are ideal for everyday cooking and beautiful garlic braids. Plant mid-October to Early November. Harvest in midsummer. Stores 8–10 months.
🧄 Transylvanian – a softneck garlic, originally from Romania and now climate adapted to Colorado, is a fine culinary garlic known for a deep, intense flavor. The heads have medium-sized, white cloves with purple streaks. Transylvanian garlic stores well, and typically yields 10-14 cloves per head. Plant mid-October to Early November, Harvest in midsummer. Stores 8–10 months.
🧄 Idaho Silver – a softneck silverskin garlic known for exceptional storage and a smooth, well-rounded flavor. Dense bulbs with tightly wrapped cloves make it one of the longest-keeping garlic varieties. Plant mid-October to Early November. Harvest in late summer. Stores up to 12 months.

What’s the cost 💲
Garlic - $30/pound
Cover crops - $2.50/ounce
Straw - $18/bale

How to shop 🛍️
1) AT THE DUG OFFICE: visit our office at 1031 33rd Street, Unit 100, Denver, CO, 80205 during open hours – we’ll answer questions, hand you garlic resources, and more!
2) ONLINE: Visit https://dugstore.square.site/s/shop or click the link in our bio to order – please note that garlic orders placed online must be made in increments of whole pounds

Need help placing an order? Give us a call at 303.292

Today the light and dark stand equal, and in the garden, that balance shows up everywhere. 🍂The fall equinox marks a tur...
09/22/2026

Today the light and dark stand equal, and in the garden, that balance shows up everywhere. 🍂

The fall equinox marks a turning point: the last warm harvests giving way to cooler soil, shorter days, and the quiet work of putting beds to rest. It's a reminder that gardens (like communities) move in cycles: growth, harvest, rest, and growth again.

This week, take a moment in your plot to notice what's ending and what's just getting started. Maybe it's your last tomatoes coming in, or garlic going into the ground for next year. Maybe it's cover crop seed scattered over tired soil, thanking it for the season.

However you mark it, we hope you find a moment of balance today in the garden and beyond. 🌱🥕

What are you harvesting or planting as the seasons shift? Tell us below 👇

Meet your new favorite roommates: red wiggler worms! 🪱🍌🌿Join the Worm Bin Make + Take workshop on October 17, and bring ...
09/16/2026

Meet your new favorite roommates: red wiggler worms! 🪱🍌🌿

Join the Worm Bin Make + Take workshop on October 17, and bring the whole crew — grown-ups, roommates, AND kids are invited to sign up as a group and build a worm bin together. 👯

Because caring for composting worms in your kitchen isn't a one-person job, it's a household project. 🏡

You'll build your own vermicomposting bin, learn how to keep your new worm friends happy, and walk away ready to turn food waste into nutrient-rich compost all year long. 🥦

No experience required — worms are pretty forgiving teachers. 😄

📍 Posner Center for International Development
🗓️ October 17 | 🕣 10am-12pm
💵 Pay-what-you-can — no one turned away for lack of funds
🔗 https://dug.org/event/2026-october-wiggly-worms/

Sign up the whole family, your roommates, or just yourself using the link in our bio 👆🏼

Your garden season isn’t over with your final harvest...What you do with your beds this fall can make a real difference ...
09/16/2026

Your garden season isn’t over with your final harvest...

What you do with your beds this fall can make a real difference in the health of your soil—and the garden you come back to next spring.

Don’t leave your soil bare all winter. Bare soil is more vulnerable to erosion, moisture loss, nutrient leaching, and damage to soil structure.

Instead:

🌱 KEEP IT LIVING WITH COVER CROPS
Cover crops keep living roots in the ground, hold nutrients in place, protect against erosion, and feed the soil ecosystem that supports next year’s garden.

🌾 OR KEEP IT COVERED WITH STRAW
Not planting a cover crop? A layer of straw protects the soil surface from wind and weather, conserves moisture, and moderates temperature swings.

♻️ ADD COMPOST
Before covering your beds, top-dress with finished compost to replenish organic matter, support soil life, and improve soil structure and water-holding capacity.

🧄 AND PLANT YOUR GARLIC!
Fall is the time to get garlic in the ground. Plant now so it can establish roots and get the winter cold it needs to develop bulbs for next summer.

Great news! We've got you covered (pun intended 🤓)...Shop DUG's Fall Supply Sale NOW to easily get your straw, as well as a variety of cover crops and garlic right from our office! --> https://dug.org/2026-fall-supply-sale/

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1031 33rd Street, Ste 100
Denver, CO
80205

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