At the Interbay P-Patch Giving Garden on 15th West, gardeners have already harvested 100 pounds of fresh organic lettuces, leeks and overwintered potatoes. This Giving Garden, a partnership of Interbay gardeners, interested community members, and Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link Program is well on its way toward reaching last year’s total… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Director, Stella Chao, was a guest on KUOW’s Weekday with Steve Scher, along with Darrin Nordahl, author of the book, Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture and Gia Clark, founding member of Alleycat Acres. The show aired on Wednesday, April 28 at 9 a.m. on 94.9… [ Keep reading ]
A recent Pemco blog featured Brandner Gardens P-Patch. Read more here.
Lettuce Link, one of our nonprofit partners, is highlighting individual P-Patchers donating produce to Seattle food banks. Read about a gardener from Judkins P-Patch: https://lettucelink.blogspot.com/2010/04/giving-gardeners-christina-cummings.html
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods has heard from many community members expressing concerns about changes to P-Patch operations that have been suggested by Department of Parks and Recreation for those P-Patch community gardens located on Parks’ property. Over the past few months, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, which manages the P-Patch Community… [ Keep reading ]
Spring has arrived, and P-Patch gardeners are busy getting beds ready for the growing season. Queen Pea P-Patchers got to work on their site recently, and recorded their activity to share. Click here to watch the action.
April 13, 2010 (SEATTLE, WA)—Seattle Department of Neighborhoods invites you to celebrate Earth Day this year by saying goodbye to another parking lot and hello to Capitol Hill’s newest P-Patch community garden, “Unpaving Paradise.” Saturday, April 17 at 2 p.m., marks the groundbreaking celebration, when the Unpaving Paradise Committee begins… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods is pleased to announce the first full growing season of a number of new P-Patch Community Gardens. In 2009 and early 2010 a total of seven new sites were opened, including Hazel Heights in Fremont, which recently opened in March. With the groundbreaking of these new… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods is pleased to announce Seattle’s first public composting toilet, located at the Picardo Farm in Wedgwood. On Saturday, April 3, Picardo hosted the opening ceremonies, featuring a T.P. ribbon cutting, speeches by local dignitaries, and garden tours. Big thanks go out to Trent Elwing, Eileen Long,… [ Keep reading ]
SEATTLE — At 1 p.m. today, a new PBS garden series called “Growing A Greener World” will be filming at Interbay P-Patch Community Garden, 2452 15th Avenue W, a P-Patch managed by Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. They will be interviewing two key volunteers about the history of Interbay, its development,… [ Keep reading ]
