By Kristina Welch | Executive Director
This has been a fantastic year at Jovial. The rainy weather has given us beautiful high yields of produce and we couldnt have harvested it all with out the numerous volunteer groups that have come out each week. We have been donating an average of 250 pounds each weekend to local food banks and Elementary Schools and hosting about 80 volunteers each month.
Several months ago when I brought our weekly produce to the Denver Indian Center (a food bank and community resource center for Native Americans and the Alaska Native Community) I met a fantastic woman in her late 60s. We chatted a bit about soil ammendments and found out that Jovial Concepts uses severeal Native Americal gardening techniques.
The following week I received a call from a group of nutritionists. They said i spoke to their mother at the Denver Indian Center and that they wanted to use our commercial kitchen to do cooking classes with Native American recipes for their community at The Co-op at 1st.
We are so excited to house these beautiful connections and collaborations in our community. Jovial Concepts has offered to donate the produce for their cooking classes and we hope to see these wonderful chefs in our gardens soon!
Our Grand Opening for The Co-op is scheduled for Oct 20th and we hope to see you there from 2-6pm. Yard games, live music, and demonstrations from our vendors and tenants. At 6pm in collaboration with UpRoot Colorado and Plant the Seed Project we will host a gleaned (rescued produce that would otherwise go in landfills) meal for 100 people.
If you are interested in gleaning produce, growing produce, or supporting cooking classes for families in need please email kristina@jovialconcepts.org.
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