Linda Kiker has helped to turn Civic Center Park into a farm over the last 16 years.

Back in 2008, she and a collection of volunteers set out to address Denver’s food access issues and provide a venue for human connection. What started as a small garden grew substantially over the last decade, both in area and in social power, with rows of produce spreading out in the middle of the sprawling park.

“It began with a community collaboration, wondering how to engage people, how to connect people, feeling that loneliness was at the root of much of the ills of our modern society,” she told Denverite as rain fell over her plots on Tuesday morning. “This was the medium, and it has an incredible output — that you can have food to share.”

The garden, which is managed by the organization Grow Loca

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