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Registration is now open for the American Community Gardening Association conference! Click on the above logo to go to registration page.

P-Patch Turns 40 years old

Welcome to P-Patch community gardening. I hope you enjoy our page as much as we do.  As you’ll note in the corner, this year we celebrate an anniversary.  Forty years ago a group of neighborhood activists and a city council member decided that fallow farmland in the middle of the city should stay as farmland. Thus was born the P-Patch Community Gardening Program, with the “P” commemorating the Picardo Family who farm became this first P-Patch.  Forty years on and 82 gardens later P-Patch is celebrating with an invitation to the Community Gardening World to come celebrate with us.  In August 8-12, Seattle will host the American Community Gardening Association and community gardeners from around the world.  Watch that website to learn more about the conference. This great event is filled with workshops and tours that celebrate community gardening and urban agriculture in Seattle.   Looking forward to the next Forty,  Rich Macdonald.

For the past 40 years, P-Patch community gardeners have been

• Growing community
• Nurturing civic engagement
• Practicing organic gardening techniques
• Fostering an environmental ethic and connecting nature to peoples’ lives
• Improving access to local, organic, and culturally appropriate food
• Transforming the appearance and revitalizing the spirit of their neighborhoods
• Developing self-reliance and improving nutrition through education and hands-on experience
• Feeding the hungry
• Preserving heirloom flowers, herbs, and vegetables
• Budding understanding between generations and cultures through gardening and cooking
  You Are Invited!