06/04/2026
Yesterday I conducted my final three planned plants distributions, which occurred in Carbondale. (Though there may be 1-3 distributions next week after I complete cleanouts and planning of my own gardens to accommodate half my normal plantings due to low water conditions and my gardens becoming an all-you-can-eat buffet for wildlife last year.)
While I have photos of the other two distributions, I'm going to focus this post on the distribution at La Clínica del Pueblo because of all of the support given to our planting and transplanting efforts by the Safe and Abundant Nutrition Alliance-SANA network. SANA has helped us with translators and with providing volunteers in library rooms to help during our simulcast bilingual workshops in the Garfield County Libraries, with plantings and transplantings, and with the Western Slope - Food Bank of the Rockies mobile food pantry distributions. It is a joy to work with this community (and good health in communities starts from the ground up with healthy, fresh organic produce)!
While I left off science-based fact sheets in Spanish on hardening off plants, transplanting, and low-water gardening (as we have available in English and Spanish at all distributions), tomorrow I begin shooting videos on each of these topics and many more, in both English and Spanish as the 'High Altitude Gardener'. (Look for the page to be launched in the next few days, please.)
Many thanks to Dr. Judith Alvarez for all of your tremendous support, for engaging your volunteer network, for taking three of the photos in this album, and for all you do for so many, and to each of you volunteers without whose efforts, we could not have pulled off such a successful year of 8000 plants being grown and distributed. We in the Growing Empowerment communities appreciate you each and every one.
