Seeking the West’s best
Sunset magazine has invited applications from Western architects, designers, landscape architects and passionate design DIYers for its 2012 Sunset Design Awards. This contest merges two of the magazine’s high-profile awards programs — the Western Home Awards and the Sunset Dream Garden Awards — and includes such new categories as décor-and-accessories design and DIY. One professional also will be honored as the “best up-and-coming designer.” For complete rules and eligibility guidelines, visit . Pictured is the 2011 Sunset Garden Award winner in Santa Barbara, Calif. Entry deadline is May 18.
Who needs free seeds?
If your community group, church, school or service group is planning to foster a vegetable garden, or you know a senior or low-income person who wants to plant one, Denver Urban Gardens is ready to help. The nonprofit is taking applications for its free seed and transplant programs until Feb. 1. Individual applications are available at the organization’s 37 distribution centers; that list is at centers. For group applications, visit the La Alma Recreation Center, 1325 W. 11th Ave.
For more information send e-mail to dirt@dug.org or call 303-292-9900.
Handy opportunity
Got hardworking hands or know someone who does? (Perhaps your favorite farmer, carpenter, painter, plumber or electrician?) Nominate them for O’Keeffe’s “Hardest Working Hands in America” contest and the chance to win $5,000 and a lifetime supply of the company’s hand salve, which is made especially to heal cracked and chapped hands. Five runners-up will get $1,000 and year’s supply. To enter, upload a photo or video at . Entry deadline is March 31.
Susan Clotfelter edits Grow, The Denver Post’s seasonal gardening section. To reach the writer: sclotfelter@denverpost.com.
