Grow

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012

Signed

Aug 12, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$222,563

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Seattle Market Gardens is a partnership between in-city farmers and consumers resulting in weekly deliveries of high-quality, farm fresh, organic produce during the growing season. In 2012 Seattle P-Patch Market Gardens provided produce for approximately 39 households over 20 weeks. It currently has two community supported agriculture (CSA) gardens located in and worked by residents Southeast and Southwest Seattle. Each garden also sells produce on site at a weekly farm stand. Seattle P-Patch Market Gardens' mission is to help establish safe, healthy communities and economic opportunity through development of CSA and Farm Stand enterprises in low-income neighborhoods. We also work with West Seattle Food Bank and the Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Program to address local food security issues.

Activity 3

There are eighty-one community gardens distributed throughout the City of Seattle. P-Patch Community Gardens spring from the desire of neighborhoods to make connections and improve their surroundings through stewardship. All P-Patch Community Gardens are open to the public to enjoy and are used as restorative spaces, learning/idea incubators, and places to gather and visit. The gardens also provide a way to give back to the community: gardeners contributed over 28,000 hours in 2012 (equivalent to 13 full time workers) and show their concern for the value of organic vegetables and community by supplying fresh produce to Seattle food banks and feeding programs. In 2012 alone, P-Patch gardeners donated 26,248 pounds of fresh produce to food banks and feeding programs. P-Patch Trust provides liability insurance and garden tools to community gardens. P-Patch Trust also pays for garden plot usage fees for low income gardeners who may otherwise be unable to benefit from gardening opportunities. P-Patch Trust's education mission is carried out through publication of the P-Patch Post, a quarterly newsletter that provides seasonal gardening tips, recipes and stories about inspirational gardeners. Financial assistance is provided to Lettuce Link (a Solid Ground program) to distribute tons of fresh produce from more than sixty community gardens to area food banks and feeding programs every year. P-Patch Trust is a member of Food Resource Network Federation. The Food Resource Network Federation was formed by area food providers seeking to move beyond the band-aid response to people trying to meet their food needs.

Filer

EIN

91-1091819