Photo Courtesy: Linda Gibbons
Gourds have been cultivated since prehistoric times and used for a variety of purposes including cooking and water vessels, musical instruments, birdhouses, and eating utensils. Gourds are members of the squash family and need a relatively long, warm growing season to reach maturity. Once harvested and allowed to dry for several months, gourds develop a hard shell. The characteristic rattle of seeds inside the gourd indicates
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Somewhere in the jungles of Indonesia, soybeans wrapped in banana leaves are curing into soft, tart tempeh. In backyards across the Korean peninsula, families faithfully set their spiced seasonal vegetables into kimchi pits underground. In Ethiopia, ground teff grain is comingling with yeast to form the flatbread Injera, while in the rolling hills of Tuscany, Italian vintners are waiting for
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Cock-a-doodle-doo! Wake up and join Denver Botanic Gardens and Denver Urban Homesteading for the first ever Chicken Coop Tour of Denver this Saturday, Oct. 2. More people are raising their own chickens; here is an opportunity for people to see how it’s done firsthand.
The owners of fifteen chicken coops – in Denver, Edgewater, Englewood, Golden, Lakewood, and Wheat Ridge – will open the doors to their chicken shacks to provide guests an opportunity to see . . .
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If a yard or garden looks like it has been transplanted from the desert, does that make it a “water-smart garden?” One might make the assumption that the plants do not need much supplemental water and, therefore, the homeowner is being frugal with his or her water application. This may actually be an incorrect notion.
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Did you love your grandma while you were growing up? Of course you did! She was wise and loving and wanted nothing more for you than for you to be happy, healthy and to grow up to be a good person.
In her quest to help you attain these qualities, she undoubtedly soothed your brow when you were sick and perhaps offered a cup of hot tea that was sweetly flavored with lemon and honey when you had a sore throat. A subtly spiced chicken soup was probably on her menu when you had a cold. She might have taught you how to hand sew a dainty sachet that you could fill with lavender to put on your pillow at night (and, guys, don’t snicker; you know you would have eaten this activity up, as well).
Grandma absolutely had a method to her sweet madness. All of these tasty foods and fun craft activities were offered to help you attain that healthiness that she always wanted for you – honey to soothe your throat, hot tea and soup to help you sweat out your cold, spices to speed up your recovery time, and lavender to help you sleep. It’s hardly news anymore that nature offers us a plethora of ways to heal our bodies and soothe our soul.
The Gardens offers you a way to become your own Grandma (or Grandpa) by learning some of
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Denver Botanic Gardens is thinking of you…thinking of your budget…thinking of what’s on your plate (literally)…thinking of what you might like to have on your plate (this time, both literally and figuratively)…and thinking that we might just have a nice way to enhance all of these things for you.
Starting next Tuesday night (Aug. 17), the Gardens will be hosting the 2010 Sustainable Food Film Series which will feature four critically acclaimed films that all deal with the significance of food’s role in the health of communities.
Because we recognize the importance of this subject for our own community, the Gardens is offering the films at no cost to you. But wait, it gets better and even cheaper than “free”…
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This year’s Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series, “The Feast in the Garden: Edible Landscapes and Regional Food Traditions,” has been a great success so far with incredible speakers from all around the world, visiting speaker-lead tours through the Gardens and amazing tastings provided by Slow Food Denver.
The Gardens is particularly excited about our next speaker, Bryant Terry, an award winning eco-chef, food justice activist, and author of numerous books including his most recent, “Vegan Soul Kitchen.” And, yes, you read that right…vegan soul food. Terry’s dynamic presentation, “Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food and Eating in the Black Communities,” will take place at the Gardens on Thursday, June 24. Terry will discuss…
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On the southern edge of the Denver metro area lies a broad expanse of beautiful landscape called the Chatfield Basin. Here, the Rocky Mountains meet the High Plains, and southern deserts meet northern boreal forests. In addition to its aesthetic beauty, the Basin provides valuable habitat for a wealth of species.
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