Rose RootZone July 2025 Iss. 1

Rose Roots Garden Leader
2 days ago
5 min read

Happy July, Gardeners! The garden is green and it's a busy month at Rose Roots. There are plenty of ways to volunteer and make a positive impact on Rose Roots and your fellow gardeners. We need you! Keep an eye out for opportunities to help throughout this newsletter.

Event Recap:

Live Music at the Garden!

An enthusiastic group of listeners welcomed two talented local musicians - Rem (on cello) and Kyle (playing viola) - to the gardens Sunday night. Rem and Kyle are students at the Denver School of the Arts and have deep roots in both our garden and the arts. They played a delightful blend of dramatic and peaceful classical music and even surpised the audience with toe tapping pop tunes from artists including Coldplay and ABBA. It was a beautiful evening.

Coming up next: Don't miss the bluegrass band The Hummin'birds at the Garden. Sunday August 17th at 6:30pm.

It's Harvest Time! ... And Vacation Time:

Remember the Veggie Van

As your gardens really start to take off, remember that every Sunday and Thursday at 10:00am, the non-profit Veggie Van will pick up vegetables from the red barn on the West end. We ask each gardener donate 20% of their harvest to those in need, and we've got BIG goals this year! We'd love to donate 2,000 lbs of veggies. So, remember to put your donations in the barn fridge in time for pick up. Last year Rose Roots donated 1,726 lbs to the Veggie Van, so this new goal is ripe for the picking.

Going on vacation? Don't let your zucchini grow to the size of wine bottles while you're sipping pinot in Sonoma! Put up a Harvest Thyme sign along with your Water Me sign so that others know they can harvest your plot for the Veggie Van.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! You can take the lead on watching for vacationers' Harvest Thyme signs and picking extra veggies for the Veggie Van! Yes, you! Can you organize and motivate others to join you? We need a team-lead to ensure useable veggies don't go to waste when they could be harvested while plot holders are on holiday. If you can step into this important role, please email leadership@roserootsgarden.org.

Partner Volunteer Event: Crown Pointe Academy and Rose Roots Community Garden

The Garden is about to get some helping hands and newly painted signs thanks to an upcoming volunteer event at Rose Roots by Crown Pointe Academy. As part of a back-to-school teambuilding for their staff, CPA will meet at the garden from 9:00am to 1:00pm on August 6th. Approximately 60 volunteers will learn about gardening 101 while working in the Pollinator Garden, compost area, food forest, and while painting new "Pick Me for the Veggie Van" signs. They'll also enjoy a potluck lunch. GoFarm will also be present, both to teach and with goodies available for sale at their farm stand. If you can help out with this event, please email leadership@roserootsgarden.org.

New Signage in an Effort to Prevent Theft

You've probably noticed the new signage at the garden entrances; we've recently had some issues with non-members believing they can harvest throughout the garden, despite being instructed otherwise. While the garden is open for neighbors to stroll through, sit, and enjoy, the plots are the property of member-gardeners who pay for them. As you know, every gardener donates to those most in need in our community through the Arvada Veggie Van. We have a couple of plots where everything grown is donated. You can help keep other gardeners' plots and our donation veggies safe:

If you see someone in the garden who isn't a member, use your communication skills to educate them regarding the rules.
Please don't invite people inside the garden to harvest - and if you have friends help you out, make it clear to your visitors that they can only harvest from your plot.
If you have questions, concerns, or see a problem, please alert leadership at leadership@roserootsgarden.org right away so that a response can be made in a timely manner.

Compost Bin Re-Build

Are you wondering why the East side compost pile has a closed sign? Rose Roots is about to get a newly-built compost bin, courtesy of local Eagle Scout, Corgan. He's getting great experience with the project: 1) developing a proposal with a cost estimate to rebuild the bins, 2) acquiring the materials, 3) building the bins, and 4) learning about the sustainable practice of composting. Let's give a huge shout out to everyone helping Corgan with this project, including: Patty Sacks, Julie Gleason, Jim Richards, and Jack Daniel Nix.

Want to learn along with Corgan? DUG has great information about composting here.
Take note of the CLOSED sign, and put your compostable materials in the west side compost area until the new bin is set up.
Check out the new compost signs from Osiris with DUG.
DONATIONS NEEDED! The garden still needs pavers as we work to make it easier to mow the compost piles. If you can donate pavers, or funds, please email leadership@roserootsgarden.org.

Support Us at King Soopers:

Time Sensitive!

King Soopers in Candelas has chosen us again as a recipient of this year's community give back program: the Fight Hunger Bag Program. Located in the Center aisle by checkout station #11 is a station with Red Bags. The cost is $2.50 and $1.00 of that goes to Rose Roots to help us raise organically grown fruits/vegetables/herbs that are donated to Arvada Veggie Van. Hurry in today and buy a bag or two or three. These will be available now thru the end of July. Thank you, King Sooper's Candelas!

Updates:

PRIDE at the Garden

Rose Roots is an inclusive community, welcoming all races, ages, religions, countries of origin, sexual orientations, genders, and abilities. We celebrated Pride Month in June along with the United States. The colors across the Rose Roots Creating are joyful right now! Growing a rainbow garden is a creative way to express and celebrate LGBTQIA+ identity, allyship, and community. Pride Month reminds us to celebrate that, like flowers, people also come in all types, forms, and expressions. At Rose Roots, we garden together, learn from, and honor each other's journeys. Our garden's mission is to restore bonds between people, food, and nature, and we can do that by creating a welcoming place where community members feel a sense of belonging, joy, and fulfillment.

This & That:

Community Notes

On September 3rd local teens will volunteer in the garden for a service project. If you can help out with this event, please email leadership@roserootsgarden.org.
The Go Farm Farm Stand is underway! Support this local farmers market every Saturday from 9a.m. to 12p.m. Stop by to check out their fresh heirloom vegetables, herbs, flowers, baked goods, and more, right across from the garden.
Time Change! On Fridays, head next door for Yoga on the Farm, each Friday from 8a.m.-9a.m
Look for the mural to be completed soon near the East side children's area!
Have a gardening tip you're hankering to share with your fellow Rose Rooters? Email it in here and if it's chosen for the next newsletter you'll win a dozen backyard chicken eggs!
Please log your volunteer/service hours Here. We thank you for being such an amazing part of the garden community!
If you have any thoughts you wish to share, feel free to reach out to leadership@roserootsgarden.org.

And thank you for reading this far! Love you from your head to tomatoes! :)

Why did the farmer plant a light bulb?

He wanted to grow a power plant.

We look forward to seeing you out at the garden.

Happy Gardening,

Rose Roots Leadership Team

Laura Bennett, President

Erin Newton, Vice President

Tom Glum, Treasurer

Maggie Alcorn, Administrator

Patty Sacks, Special Projects

Aaron Amaya, South Pollinator

Gary Williams, Operations

Jim Richards, Operations

Jack Nix, Operations

Please contact Michelle, Newsletter Editor, HERE with newsletter additions, corrections, comments, compliments, gardening tips or humor.