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Denver7 Everyday Hero weeding out hunger at Denver s South High School
Steff Grogan takes care of school s vegetable garden
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and last updated 2021-05-03 11:54:51-04
DENVER Outside Denver South High School, Steff Grogan is planting seeds the pandemic has left so many of us starving for. It s hope, it s hope, yeah, Grogan said.
It s a passion project she started last year. When the novel coronavirus closed the school and its student-run garden that provides fresh veggies for the school s food bank, Grogan and the nonprofit, Grow Local Colorado, stepped in to help. The students who usually take care of this garden, they werenât gonna be able to, so Jaclyn, who runs the food pantry here, contacted me and said, Would you guys be able to grow food here? said Barbara Masoner, co-founder for Grow Local Colorado.
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Grow Local Tricities opened up a new market in Port Moody during the pandemic. Photo by Erik Scheel / Pexels
While many things were shut down due to the pandemic, Tabitha McLoughlin and her team responded to increased demand in their community for fresh food by opening another farmers market.
McLoughlin is the executive director of Grow Local Tricities, which manages the Port Moody and Coquitlam farmers markets. In June, the organization started its Port Moody summer market as an emergency response for farmers in their area.
“We did it in response to knowing that we had farmer vendors who were losing contracts to restaurants and losing contracts to food suppliers, because those guys were shutting down or being closed down, and they had crops in the ground,” she said. “And it was well enough attended that we’ll continue to do it again this year.”
Following cold snap, area growers working to recover from damaged crops
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â If one s vegetation was left uncovered from last week s brutal winter storm, it s easy to tell. We just got kind of a rapid lesson in the life cycle of death and rebirth all within the span of like three days, said David Nuss, Executive Director of Grow Local South Texas, who manages First United Methodist Churchâs Garden of Grace, one of the few community gardens in Corpus Christi. Before the freeze, every one of these plots was amazingly green.