Ballinger Neighborhood
Community GardeningGRAND OPENING
SATURDAY, MAY 22
Come and celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Community Garden and P-Patch in Shoreline. Help us honor the donors and volunteers who have made this garden possible. Meet the gardeners. See what is growing. There will be plant give-aways and other items useful to gardeners. Light refreshments. Opening Ceremony at Noon.
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. NEW PLOTS COMING ONLINE - To Apply for a Garden Plot...
Applications are now being taken for Phase II. Click here for Application form and Garden Rules agreement. Applicants will be assigned plots in the order received, and gardeners will be notified when additional plots are ready for occupancy. DO NOT SEND IN YOUR PLOT FEE until you have been notified that a plot is being assigned to you.
We're Part of a Larger Vision for Shoreline
The Ballinger Neighborhood Community Garden is modeled after the Seattle P-Patch program, the first program of its kind, now operating in communities nationwide. We are 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 new Shoreline City Hall on the corner of NE 175th & Midvale Ave N. Everyone interested in community gardening is welcome to join in.
With Special Thanks to . . .
Cleanscapes for delivering 18 yard waste totes so we could rid the site of woody debris and for picking them up again free of charge. Visit Cleanscapes at www.cleanscapes.com and check out their recycling tips.
Dunn Lumber for providing and delivering new and used lumber for raised beds. Visit Dunn Lumber's website at www.dunnlum.com. 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.
Swanson's Nursery for their $75 gift certificate donation which enabled us to purchase valuable compost for the communal garden area and food bank plot. Check out Swanson's gorgeous site at www.swansonsnursery.com. Better yet, head over for an enjoyable mini-retreat in the City. 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.