Resources
April 26, 2009
LOCAL RESOURCES
Town & Country Market
Ann Lovejoy
Gardening features and cooking receipes from our local Bainbridge
Island garden expert.
Striving to protect human health, water quality and the environment by
providing educational outreach to our community. We teach people about
the hazards of using chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides
while also promoting organic gardening methods and natural lawn care.
REGIONAL RESOURCES
Emu Topsoil
(360) 779-5614
Vern’s Organic Topsoil
(360) 779-2764
Kitsap E-Z Earth
(worm compost), (360) 377-3989 or (360) 620-8493 (cell)
Master Gardeners Foundation Kitsap
Promoting long term environmental health through sound and sustainable
horticultural practices.
Seattle: P-Patch Community Gardens
The Department of Neighborhoods’ P-Patch Program, in conjunction with
the not-for-profit P-Patch Trust, provides organic community garden
space for residents of 70 Seattle neighborhoods. The community based
program areas of the P-Patch Program are community gardening, market
gardening, youth gardening, and community food security in the City of
Seattle.
NATIONAL COMMUNITY GARDEN WEB LINKS
Atlanta Community Food Bank: Community Gardens
America’s Grow a Row
To encourage our communities to plant, grow and harvest an extra row
of specific vegetables for local food banks and soup kitchens.
Please consider doing your own “grow a row” for Helpline!
American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
The Mission of the American Community Gardening Association is to
build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and
greening across the United States and Canada.
Eat the View
This group successfully lead the campaign to get our First Family to
plant a kitchen garden on the First Lawn! Groundbreaking occurred on
March 20.
Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington: Community
Gardens
