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Participate in designing North Seattle’s next neighborhood garden!

Come join your neighbors in planning North Seattle’s newest P-Patch garden!  The meeting will be held on Monday, February 27 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at North Seattle Community College Campus- Baxter Event Center, 9600 College Way North.  See the links below for more information. Current P-patch Proposal https://webshare.northseattle.edu/Sustainable/Documents/Pea_Patch_Final_8_1_11.pdf NSCC P-patch Facebook… [ Keep reading ]

Resurrecting the Victory Garden – A Chicago Community Gardening Story – Feb 8 at 7pm

Please join the P-Patch Community Gardening Program and the 2013 American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) Seattle Conference Committee as we explore how a new community garden helped one  Chicago neighborhood discover the Victory Garden in its backyard.   LaManda Joy, edible gardening advocate and ACGA board member, leads us on the… [ Keep reading ]

Lettuce Link Fundraiser now underway

Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link Program, which works with the P-Patch Program food bank plots, is selling seeds as a fundraiser now through the end of the month.  This is a great opportunity to support this program as you plan out your gardens for the year. Click this link for more information https://lettucelink.blogspot.com/2012/01/buy-seeds-support-lettuce-link.html.

Help design the new Broadview Bitter Lake P-Patch shed January 12

Join your neighbors to help design a shed and determine the design of this P-patch in the Broadview Bitter Lake neighborhood.  Click here to read more.

P-Patch Trust takes major step in support of community gardening

Joyce Moty, President of the P-Patch Trust Board of Directors, recently announced  the naming of its new Executive Director.  Read the announcement below. The board of directors of the P-Patch Trust is delighted to announce that Veronica Sherman-King, Director of Planning and Community Building for the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, will become… [ Keep reading ]

Queen Anne P-Patch Hosts Youth Global Workshop

Throughout the 2011 gardening season, Spanish language middle school students tended a plot at the Queen Anne P-Patch. Students were participating in a Global Workshop, created by The Language Link, a program that engages Seattle children in world languages.  The Queen Anne middle schoolers documented their work in Spanish and… [ Keep reading ]

Design workshops scheduled for city’s first rooftop P-Patch community garden

Community members are invited to participate in designing a P-Patch community garden on the roof of the Mercer Garage at Seattle Center.  Landscape Architects Kistler/Higbee Cahoot will facilitate three public workshops to design the garden. Each session will build on the last, so attendance to all three meetings is encouraged…. [ Keep reading ]

P-Patch Post seeks editorial volunteers

The P-Patch Trust is looking for a few people to be part of a volunteer Editorial team for P-Patch Post to coordinate all the efforts related to publishing the Post.  If you have had some experience in publishing or in media, have a commitment to community gardening,  and are plugged… [ Keep reading ]

Annual Gleaning Day at Picardo P-Patch results in 568 pounds of food for donation

In an annual tradition, P-patchers, community volunteers and Lettuce Leaf members harvest the remaining produce from the Picardo P-Patch before it is turned under and planted with a cover crop for the winter.  The organic produce is cleaned and donated to area food banks and senior residences.  Click here to… [ Keep reading ]

P-patch garden to take root on Mercer Garage roof

Come learn more about this new garden, funded by the Parks and Green Space Levy, November 17 at 7:00 in the Shaw room at Seattle Center.  Click here for more information.