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April 20, 2025 - Through Re:Vision’s family garden program, Westwood residents grow their own food. The harvest from the gardens reduces grocery costs and increases access to fresh produce. For some residents, like Araiza, it connects them to childhood memories.
February 10, 2025 - Launched in September 2024 by Julio Mendoza and Re:Vision, the Paletero Project aims to capture the living history of paleteros within the Latinx communities that make up SW Denver through oral history, photography, and the conversion of paletero carts into traveling art by seven Latinx and BIPOC Denver artists.
June 18th 2024 Re:Vision, a Westwood-based nonprofit, is expanding its urban farm program to a 1 acre tract of land just off of Federal Boulevard.
June. 14, 2024 - The Westwood-based organization will expand its efforts in a neighborhood with a disproportionate poverty rate and limited access to fresh food.
April 28, 2024 - Mariana del Hierro, executive director of Re:Vision, said sentiments like Miller’s are why the nonprofit helps put on cultural events including their ancestral food series, which focuses on introducing traditional indigenous cuisines to the neighborhood and Denverites.
“I think a lot of perceptions in the U.S. is that Mexican immigrants are just this one identity,” del Hierro said. “Here with our events, we have the unique opportunity to show just the complexities of the culture and the culinary traditions and just the people period… It is like a sampling of just the diversity and the beauty that is Mexico.”
April 26, 2024 - Oaxaca en Denver is a two-day event bringing the Mexican state’s rich heritage to the westside.
April 12, 2024 While strain is being felt all around, many smaller nonprofits – especially those who run food pantries – are saying they aren’t seeing much assistance from the city, which is touting an “all-in” mentality.
February 8, 2024 - By tapping into the ritualistic flavors of fire and smoke, chefs Alejandro and Alberto Rodriguez are diversifying Mexican cuisine in Colorado. The brothers’ food and beverage business, Dos Caras, is dedicated to using pre-colonial cooking techniques from Mexico “to show deference to our community and culture,” as Alberto says.
Oct 31, 2023 - Día de los Muertos officially starts Nov. 1 but the celebration, preservation and reclamation of the holiday begins Nov. 3 in Westwood.
July 16, 2025 - Re:Vision, a food equity nonprofit based in Westwood, employs a team of a dozen promotoras to support participants in the organization’s family garden program.