DENVER—Those aren’t just tulips that are being planted this year in Denver parks.
From now until the end of summer, volunteers plan to weed and tend vegetables in seven parks that will be donated to a homeless shelter.
Blake Angelo of Grow Local Colorado says the team of volunteers hopes to harvest about 1,500 pounds of produce.
When the harvest is complete, the fresh produce will go to the Gathering Place, a daytime drop-in center for poor and homeless women and children in Denver.
Angelo tells the Denver Post that about $3,000 worth of seedlings and young plants were donated.
The volunteers are asking people not to pick the produce from city parks so they can donate it to the shelter.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
