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Fairmont School garden opens July 11

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Contributed by: Jan Webster on 7/7/2008

On Friday, July 11, the Fairmont School garden will kick off the third season of the Youth Market. The garden on the south side of the school at 3rd and Fox in the Historic Baker Neighborhood was started 5 years ago with sponsorship from Slow Food, an organization that has given information, advice, and volunteers. A Live Well grant from Kaiser Foundation, administered by Denver Urban Gardens, helps support the summer gardening program and the student-run market.

Fairmont School is a kindergarten through 8th grade school and in the spring the younger classes start planting seeds in their classrooms and nurture them into plants to be transplanted in the garden the last week of school. The Kaiser grant enables a garden manager to be hired and some pay for the older students who maintain the garden and run the market. The students go through an application process to get these jobs. This year there are 12 students in 5th through 8th grades working three days a week, two in the garden and one preparing for and running the market. The market profits go equally to the students and for the next year's seed and plant purchases.

Valerie Illg, the garden manager, says that the garden is bigger and better than ever this year and will be ready on July 11, weather permitting, to supply the market with a bounty of vegetables, starting with strawberries, radishes, peas and beans and continuing on to tomatoes, peppers, squash, and corn.

This inner-city school garden is a matter of great pride to the students and the neighborhood. Stop by some week-day morning and see the gardening action for yourself. The market will run from July 11 to September 26, every Friday from 3:30-6:00 p.m. by the school parking lot at 3rd and Fox.

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