New seeds program creates chance to grow vegetables and build community through urban gardens

By Elaine Tassy
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A woman in a red skirt and a teal shirt kneels beneath a grid of wood covered with growing green leaves; long, green squashes hang from the structure.
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Anmi Wan sits with the bottle gourds she grew in her plot at the Community Garden at Denver Urban Gardens’ Mental Health and Recovery Cultural Development and Wellness Center, previously known as the Asian Pacific Development Center, in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

A man in a blue ballcap smiles wide as he reaches into a plot overflowing with green leaves.
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Pren Tamang shows off his plot at Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

A woman in shades and a black tank top stands on a dirt path surrounded by overflowing garden plots. The scene around her is astoundingly green.
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Denver Urban Gardens executive director Linda Appel Lipsius stands in the nonprofit's Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

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A woman in a flat-brimmed cap stands behind a plot filled with green plants and green, white and purple flowers.
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Mon Chetri stands with her plot at Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.
A woman in a cream sweater reaches into a garden plot overflowing with green leaves and corn stalks.
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Indra Gautam shows off her plot at Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

A woman's hand, ringed by gold bracelets, reaches into a garden plot overflowing with green leaves and purple flowers.
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Indra Gautam shows off her plot at Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

A man in the foreground reaches into a thick bed of green leaves and stalks.
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Pren Tamang pulls back leaves to reveal a bottle squash growing in his plot at Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

A woman in a red skirt and a teal shirt laughs, standing over a plot overflowing with green eaves and tall stalks of corn.
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XXX stands near her plot in Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

Garden plots overflow with green plants — corn, squash and more — separated by dirt paths.
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Denver Urban Gardens' Asian Pacific Development Center Community Garden in Aurora. Aug. 13, 2024.

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