Please join Nicole Kistler, Seattle Artist-in-Residence for Urban Agriculture and the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, this Saturday, May 25 at the Magnuson Park P-Patch Orchard for the installation of a new art project called Blushing Orchards. The project is the first pilot project of a new Seattle Art Plan for… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Mike McGinn announced in May that the Seattle Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods (DoN) have been awarded $35,000 from the FEMA Community Resilience Innovation Challenge. The cash award will establish community emergency preparedness “Hubs” in selected P-Patch community gardens in southeast Seattle, in addition… [ Keep reading ]
Join us as Mayor McGinn, Office for Emergency Management Director Barb Graff and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Manager Karen Gordon, along with P-Patch gardeners and community members, announce receipt of a FEMA grant to create emergency hubs in P-Patch community gardens and what it means for community engagement and public… [ Keep reading ]
