Community Gardening Coming to
Ballinger 
Neighborhood!
Ballinger Neighborhood Association is pleased to announce a Community Gardening pilot project--the first-ever to be offered by a Shoreline Neighborhood.
2010 WORK PARTIES continue every Saturday morning through April 17, rain or shine, from 9 to Noon. Bring gloves and wear sturdy shoes. Also, bring garden rakes, shovels, and wheel barrows if you have them.
DIRECTIONS TO SITE: The garden site is located behind Aldercrest Learning Center. To access site, take Ballinger Way to 25th Ave NE, turn on NE 200th St, watch for the Ballinger Neighborhood sandwich board.
Check our Calendar of Events dates and times. Joyce Lingerfelt is our Ballinger Neighborhood's Community Gardening Coordinator. If you have time to help, please call her at 206-364-1438. To Apply for a Garden Plot...
Click here for Application form and Garden Rules agreement. Plots will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. Once plots have been filled, applicants will be placed on a waiting list, and gardeners notified as new plots become available.
We're Part of a Larger Vision for Shoreline
The Ballinger Neighborhood Community Garden will be modeled after the
Seattle P-Patch program, the first program of its kind, now operating in communities nationwide. We'll be working in conjunction with Shoreline Community Gardening Group, a collaboration of more than two dozen local area community-minded gardeners and master gardeners. The group is dedicated to establishing a comprehensive community gardening program in Shoreline, including P-patches, demonstration gardens to help both children and adults learn how healthy food is grown, and co-operative urban farming on private lands. Shoreline's Community Gardening Advisory Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at the Shoreline Public Library on the corner of NE 175th & 5th Ave NE and at other locations. Everyone interested in community gardening is welcome to join in.
SPECIAL THANKS
Friends of Aldercrest for their generous donation of a wonderful, new red picnic table for our site. Volunteers working on the garden prep are sure to enjoy a place to take a break! to learn more about Friends of Aldercrest, visit www.friendsofaldercrest.org.
Rain City Rotary for their generous donation of more than 50 hours of volunteer labor on November 21st. To learn more about Rain City Rotary, visit www.raincityrotary.org.