Building Gardens…

P-Patch Trust is a nonprofit organization working to acquire, build, preserve and protect community gardens in Seattle’s neighborhoods. Through advocacy, leadership and partnerships, the Trust expands access to community gardening across economic, racial, ethnic, ability and gender lines. We promote organic gardening and build community by breaking urban isolation by providing opportunities to for people to garden together, learn from each other, develop a sense of neighborhood and create a more livable urban environment.

The Trust owns various properties that serve as community gardens. These gardens are managed with the help of the City of Seattle’s P-Patch Program and enable the Trust to:

• Provide education on urban ecology and biodiversity through organic gardening and sustainable development.

• Promote healthy organic gardening and urban ecology practices.

Photo By Ray Schutte

Growing Communities…

P-Patch Trust seeks to break urban isolation by providing opportunities for people to garden together, learn from each other, develop a sense of neighborhood and create a more livable urban environment. The P-Patch Trust grows communities by:

• Providing community gardens with small development grants, plot rental fees for low-income gardeners and tools for all at the garden to use.

• Creating greater public awareness of food security.

• Supporting community supported agriculture (CSA) programs in public housing communities in partnership with the City of Seattle and the Seattle Housing Authority.

• Helping to distribute tons of fresh produce from the more than 60 community gardens to area food banks each year.