Seattle’s Garden Celebration Grows

by Stephanie Seliga

Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 14^th, 2011. Seattle’s city-wide garden build day and celebration, Spring into Bed!, is building momentum for a second year. This year Spring into Bed! will be building and celebrating our thriving local food system throughout all of King County. We will organize over 500 volunteers at over 30 sites, tally over a square mile (27,878,400 ft.) of activated food growing space, and raise over $30,000 to build free and subsidized gardens for low income families. You are an essential element of this celebration!

This time last year, Spring into Bed! was a dream. Community meetings and volunteers brought forth a vision and got to work. By the second Saturday of May, Spring into Bed! became an outstanding success. We built nine free gardens for low-income families, organized over 250 volunteers throughout Seattle, tallied and activated over 18,000 sq. ft. of food gardens, and raised over $8,000 in cash and in-kind donations. These gardens and celebrations are a testament to what happens when we put our minds, money, and movement in the service of our hearts and our future.

Thanks to fiscal sponsorship by Seattle Tilth, a grant from the United Way of King County, and a partnership with Cedar Grove Composting, Spring into Bed! has grown into a year-round project— the Just Garden Project. The Just Garden Project builds free and subsidized gardens for low income and marginalized people throughout King County. These gardens provide families and communities with self-sufficient access to highly nutritious, organic food. In 2011, the Just Garden Project will build 30 free/subsidized gardens throughout King County. All of our funding to date has come from within King County.

We will be launching the Just Garden Project and the Spring into Bed! fundraising campaign on Saturday, March 5^th, 2011 at El Centro De La Raza on North Beacon Hill. Bring your minds, money and movement and join us to learn more about our projects and the work we do. There will be food, music and a great feeling of community! For more information, e-mail food@justgarden.org, or call (206) 633-0451, ext. 116.

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1. Seattle Grows Supper
2. Seattle Farms and Gardens – Are You on the Map?
3. Goat Hill Giving Garden Update

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