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    Annual Seed Distribution Gathering!

    January 28, 2023 /

    The Seattle Giving Garden Network invites all giving gardeners to its annual Seed Distribution Gathering. We have hundreds of seed packets that include vegetables, herbs and flowers to be collected for planting in giving gardens around the city. When? Saturday, February 11, 2023 10:30 am Where? Montlake Community Center, 1618 East Calhoun Street, Seattle 98112 There will be a short program of speakers at 11:00 am, and opportunities to meet other giving gardeners who are involved in providing nutritious, healthy produce for our neighbors who cannot afford to purchase organic foods. We will supply tools that are donated by P-Patches that have extras to give away. The Gathering is an opportunity for giving gardeners…

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    February 19, 2019

    Sprouts 2022

    October 14, 2022

    Greens, beans, squash, cucumbers & onions for pick up May 4th, 5th & 6th.

    April 22, 2018
  • Growing & Giving in the Community

    King County has cover crop giveaway

    July 26, 2022 /

    King County announced they have clover/pea cover crop seeds available to community p patches. Here’s a link to more information and an application: https://kingcd.org/2022/07/19/kcd-community-agriculture-cover-crop-giveaway/

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    September 11, 2022

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    October 15, 2021

    Sprouts Growing Tomatoes

    May 24, 2022
  • Growing & Giving in the Community

    Thank you local companies for your generous seed donations!

    July 16, 2022 /

    We are so grateful to our many seed retailers and seed companies for their generous seed donations. Their contributions provide seeds to our local giving gardeners, and food banks. This year we also partnered with Northwest Harvest to distribute donated seeds across the state. Please support these wonderful businesses and seed companies that help make this happen! Email us at info@sggn.org if you would like to donate. We are happy to pick up local donations. Urban Earth Nursery City Peoples Mercantile Wells Medina Nursery Bellevue Nursery City Peoples Garden Store Molbaks Maple Leaf True Value Seattle Seed Company Sky Nursery Adaptive Seeds Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Osborne Seed Co. West…

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    Thank you, Seattle

    February 22, 2020
  • grants,  Growing & Giving in the Community,  Volunteering

    Small Grants Available 2022

    April 3, 2022 /

    Unexpected expenses can take the joy out of a giving garden project.  If your giving garden needs help with unanticipated expenses such as broken or missing tools, willing volunteers who need a better style of glove, a rotting side-panel in the raised bed, broken hoses, or a yard or two of compost, you can apply for reimbursement from Seattle’s Giving Garden Network’s Small Grants Program.  We’ve a small pot of money to use for exactly these types of things and the process is surprisingly simple  Contact us at info@sggn.org to learn more about it. https://www.sggn.org/small-grants-guidelines/

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    October 15, 2021

    Harvesting SGGN’s Ballard Sprouts

    June 10, 2022

    Annual Seed Distribution Gathering!

    January 28, 2023
  • Growing & Giving in the Community,  Growing Tips,  SGGN Sprouts

    Tomatoes are a challenge in the PNW — we’ll provide starts, you grow them

    April 18, 2018 /

    SGGN will have tomato starts ready for the giving gardens, kitchen gardens, and food banks approximately mid-May, 2018. Despite the cold April weather, we have lots of starts, and lots of varieties including slicers (beefsteak, Money Maker, Siletz) cherry tomatoes: (red and yellow) paste and pasta varieties (San Marzano varieties). For those who’d like some tutoring before taking on the responsibility for new tomato starts, here’s one class: Growing Vegetables including Tomatoes, Sunday, April 22nd – 10:00 am – 11:00 am at Magnolia Garden Center. In this class, owner Chuck Flaharty will go over planting and fertilizing vegetables with a special emphasis on Tomato growing in our area, including best…

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    How Did Our 2021 Spring Greens Grow?

    October 10, 2021

    Greens, beans, squash, cucumbers & onions for pick up May 4th, 5th & 6th.

    April 22, 2018

    SGGN’s Summer Meet-up

    September 12, 2022
  • Growing & Giving in the Community,  Uncategorized

    Wow — Over 12000 starts provided to giving gardens this year

    May 28, 2016 /

    Just in time for the Return of Summer Weather — Happy Growing every one

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    Molbaks donation

    October 14, 2022
    2021 Sprouts

    2021 Update – SGGN continuing its mission

    September 25, 2021

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    September 12, 2022
  • Growing & Giving in the Community

    The “New Normal…

    March 14, 2015 /

    Today’s Seattle Times had an interesting article by Janet I. Tu, “‘New normal’ Food banks much busier, despite better economy” that talks about the increasing number of visits to local food banks. While a lot of people think the economy has mostly recovered during last few years, this article provides some alarming statistics including: “In the Seattle area, some food banks are getting more visits now than they did during the recession. At the 27 food pantries in the Seattle Food Committee coalition, the number of visits (including delivery of food to homes) went up from 928,656 in 2007 to 1.1 million in 2009 and to nearly 1.4 million last…

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    December Appreciation

    December 4, 2022

    Seedmoney Donation Campaign Starts Nov 15th!

    November 13, 2022
  • Growing & Giving in the Community,  Growing Tips

    Making Compost is Simple? Not!

    February 21, 2015 /

    Making compost is simple: vegetable waste + water+ heat = rot and (eventually) soil. The tricky part comes when we realize that what we put into the compost doesn’t always rot into something that’s healthy. ( School compost programs should think carefully about how to compost: see for example compost.css.cornell.edu/faq.html for examples of ways that compost can become a problem.) To share my own story: when I first started composting I didn’t realize that the bins let the rats and raccoons in. I fed them, made my neighbors mad, and didn’t get much compost for my garden. There are other issues with compost: it needs to be really hot to…

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  • Growing & Giving in the Community

    Food and Faith Programs

    January 27, 2015 /

    We’ve met involved gardeners with the food and faith initiative these last couple of years. Sometimes the folks are growing food for the public food banks, sometimes supporting their own kitchen-based feeding programs. More information about the these groups (and resources for starting or for maintaining your own) can be found on Seattle Tilth’s site. The Food and Faith Initiative provides support for faith-based organizations who want to grow veggies: including information about incorporating food gardening into existing ministries, education and training for congregations, ongoing technical support, guidance on volunteer engagement that will sustain these gardens for many years.

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    Winter Newsletter

    December 10, 2022

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    February 19, 2019
  • Growing & Giving in the Community,  p-patch

    Theft from P-Patches

    October 17, 2014 /

    Safety, Vandalism, Theft in the Garden  was recently shared online by P-Patch@talk2.seattle.gov which hosted a very active discussion by gardeners about theft of veggies: carefully nurtured tomatoes, carrots, and fennel bulbs being some of what was stolen; also anything copper or brass (useful for recyclers), themometers, ladders, and gardening tools.  Gardeners shared strategies: physical barriers (a short two foot fence; planting the desirable stuff in the back of the patch so it’s hard to reach and keeping hoses and tools in a locked shed) signs; codes of conduct; engaging those who walk through the garden in dialogue; deliberately labeling a part of the p-patch for public harvest; keeping the garden neat and tidy to…

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    Molbaks donation

    October 14, 2022

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    October 15, 2021
    Interbay Giving Garden

    Winter Veggies

    July 26, 2019

Our Mission is to support the growing of organic fresh local produce by Seattle Gardeners for the purpose of provisioning Seattle food banks, street kitchens and other food pantries. We operate from a perspective of abundance in order to provide resources to the gardeners who donate their produce. These resources include seeds, plant starts, network opportunities and funding.

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