RAMERC Garden

This NE Denver urban gardening situation is a little different than most. We've partnered with Jocelyn Miller, the director of the Robert A Miller Educational Resource Center (RAMERC). You can view her website here: http://ramerc.com/index.html. This garden has a very special purpose, above and beyond growing high quality food in an urban center! Jocelyn runs parenting and family coaching classes from the resource center and uses the garden as a living teaching tool. Young parents learn the importance of consistently nurturing their children as they learn to care for the plants. They learn that their children will not grow in healthy ways on their own, and that parenting is hard work but the benefits last forever. She also uses the garden as a tool to promote family attachment. We are just laborers here. The seeds and starts that we planted are hers, as will be the harvest. Regardless, it is a great experience for us and an even greater investment!

The RAMERC back yard boasts four great planters!

Right now, our biggest job is to visit several times a week to water the garden. 

This bed has tomatoes, turnips and green onions on the left, and lettuce,

broccoli and more green onions on the right.

This is our 3 sisters bed:

Here, we have two rows each of corn, pole beans and turnips.

Each end has several mounds of squash.

This bed has three different kinds of peppers,

and we're growing different herbs from seed inbetween.

We can't help but think this trellis is perfect for growing hearty kiwi vines.

Maybe next year . . .

Stay tuned for more growing updates!!