Here’s your chance to fill some of those empty spots in your garden! Gardeners from Howell Collective Garden, Hypha (a Seattle plant community project), and youth from Lambert House are hosting a free seedling giveaway at Howell Garden Sunday, June 22. The giveaway will also include educational demonstrations, storytelling, ethnobotany, and art. Supported… [ Keep reading ]
How do we use planting, cooking, and preserving food to bring our history to a new place? Artist-gardener-carpenter-bicyclist Cris Bruch knows that in his family growing and preserving food, and family recipes helped make a new place become a home. Roll on, Buddy is a way of reaching out to… [ Keep reading ]
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The Seattle P-Patch Market Gardens CSA (community-supported agriculture) program is accepting subscribers for its farm-fresh organic produce. Beginning in June, each week subscribers will receive up to 15 items of organic seasonal produce grown at the NewHolly and High Point Seattle Market Gardens, a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods program that… [ Keep reading ]
A wonderful story of how growing in our P-Patches can help different cultures share traditions and begin a dialog of understanding and engagement.
Join us Sunday, May 4 for the second annual Bee Parade and Festival: a Neighborhood Matching Fund supported event! Parade Start Location: West Seattle Elementary parking lot (6760 34th Ave SW) Parade Start Time: 11am Festival Location and Parade End: Commons Park (31st Ave SW and SW Graham St) Festival activities include food,… [ Keep reading ]
Congratulations to the UpGarden P-Patch and Kistler l Higbee Cahoot upon receiving the 2014 top award from the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Lynn Porter of DJC tells the story here.
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and Seattle Office of Emergency Management received a $35,000 Community Resilience Award from FEMA to establish community hubs at P-Patch community gardens that serve as gathering places in an emergency. The funds supported volunteer training, translations and emergency hub kits at 12 southeast Seattle gardens with… [ Keep reading ]
More than 50 people attending the National League of Cities Conference had the opportunity to visit neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle when we hosted a mobile workshop on community engagement. Hailing from big cities to small, the attendees learned about DoN programs, but also got to hear and visit Seattle Housing… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Magazine just posted their list of the most influential people of 2013. We want to call-out and congratulate Lauren England of the West Seattle Bee Garden, Sarah Bergmann of the Pollinator Pathway, Bob Redmond of the Urban Bee Company, and Corky Luster of the Ballard Bee Company – all… [ Keep reading ]
