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Garden information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration garden is part of a unique partnership between\u00a0The Denver Botanic Gardens<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0City of Aurora<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0CSU Arapahoe County Master Gardeners<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with all three playing roles in planning, maintenance, and food distribution. The no-till garden is period appropriate with 1800s heirloom cultivars for use for culinary and medicinal purposes.\u00a0No spraying of herbicides or pesticides is allowed. All unwanted vegetation must be pulled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produce is used and given away during educational programing. The remaining produce is donated to local food bank locations in southeast Aurora. 560 pounds were donated to local food banks in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the\u00a0Plains Conservation Center<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0website for public hours and more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Plains Conservation Center is an 1100-acre nature preserve on ancestral tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe (1500-1860). It is free to the public and there are many educational programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":308,"parent":346,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"county_tax":[70],"garden-type_tax":[490],"class_list":["post-303","garden-cpt","type-garden-cpt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_post_mime_type":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-cpt\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-cpt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/garden-cpt"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-cpt\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-cpt\/303\/revisions\/310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-cpt\/346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"county_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county_tax?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"garden-type_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.colostate.edu\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/garden-type_tax?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}