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Some of the first crops growing at
Seattle Community Farm | The Seattle Community Farm is a creative, ambitious project transforming an unused ½-acre of land into a productive farm which educates, inspires, and increases food security for residents of Southeast Seattle. The food grown at the Seattle Community Farm will be cultivated by and shared with residents of the Rainier Vista community and wider Rainier Valley neighborhood, as well as the Rainier Valley Food Bank.
Started in 2009 from a partnership between Lettuce Link, Seattle Housing Authority and the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Community Gardening Program – with funding from a USDA Community Food Project Grant – the Seattle Community Farm broke ground in 2010 and is now fully planted. We are looking forward to many years of abundant harvests!
Check out this video interview with 2011 Harvest Against Hunger VISTA Outreach Coordinator, Mariah Pepper, who describes the first year of growing food at Seattle Community Farm.
Mariah Pepper Solid Ground (produced on Vimeo
by Basil Weiner, Harvest Against Hunger VISTA).
If you are a new volunteer with Lettuce Link or have not applied in the past, fill out a Lettuce Link's Seattle Community Farm Volunteer Application and return it to urbanfarm@solid-ground.org.
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Volunteer Work Parties: Tuesdays 9am – 1pm, Thursdays 5 – 8pm, and Saturdays 10am – 2pm, March through November at Seattle Community Farm!
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Work Trade Program: If you have trouble affording produce, you can sign up for the Work Trade Program at Seattle Community Farm. For every two hours of volunteer time, you’ll receive a bag of vegetables. Signing up is easy – just come to a work party (see days/times above) and tell us you want your volunteer time to count towards your Work Trade.
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For more information about volunteering at Seattle Community Farm to help prepare the soil, plant, water, weed and harvest, please email urbanfarm@solid-ground.org.
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Gardening Wish List: Lettuce Link and Seattle Community Farm gladly accept donations of new and gently used (unless otherwise noted) gardening tools and supplies.
Updates
The Lettuce Link. blog posts regular updates on progress at the new farm and other news. Sign up to receive emailed posts! Posts specifically about the Seattle Community Farm include:
- Seattle Community Farm wraps up its first season, 12/7/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Raising Food, Connecting Cultures, 7/21/11, Lettuce Link. blog
- Seattle Community Farm is officially and grandly open, 7/6/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Seattle Community Farm is up and running! 6/24/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Volunteer Opportunity: Work with kids and eat vegetables this summer! 6/7/11, Lettuce Link blog
- First planting at the Seattle Community Farm, 5/23/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Planning and Planting at the Seattle Community Farm, 5/2/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Still too wet for plants, so we're growing tables! 4/14/1, Lettuce Link blog
- Beautiful new fence spruces up Seattle Community Farm, 3/31/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Seattle Community Farm Community Meeting, 3/3/11, Lettuce Link blog
- A Day in the Life of the Rainier Valley Food Bank, 2/9/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Shed Building at the Seattle Community Farm, 1/19/11, Lettuce Link blog
- Flood Damage at the Seattle Community Farm, 12/20/10, Lettuce Link blog
- Preparing the farm for winter, 12/9/10, Lettuce Link blog
- Seattle Community Farm Construction Complete!, 11/29/10, Lettuce Link. blog
- Seattle Community Farm Under Construction and the First Work Party!, 11/10/10, Lettuce Link blog
- Rainier Vista Multicultural Celebration and Ground Breaking, 9/30/10, Lettuce Link blog
- New faces at Lettuce Link, 9/28/10, Lettuce Link blog
- Final Design of Seattle Community Farm, 6/22/10, Lettuce Link blog
Publications
- Lettuce Link brochure
- Raising food, connecting cultures: Solid Ground's July 2011 Groundviews newsletter features the Seattle Community Farm
- Gardening for Good Nutrition: A Guide to Growing Your Own Healthy Food: We created this useful guide to help people grow their own organic food and take control of their health needs. It offers simple-to-follow gardening and food preparation advice, basic nutrition information on over two-dozen crops, steps a beginning gardener can follow to set up container gardens or yard gardens, composting advice and a list of community resources. For a free printed copy of the full 32-page guide, please call 206.694.6746 ext.3 (donations to Lettuce Link are happily accepted).
Seattle Community Farm is located just west of 4015 MLK Way, Seattle, WA 98108. Street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood. It is also easily accessible by public transportation.
Driving Directions
From I-5 N/S:
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Take the exit for I-90 East toward Bellevue/Spokane.
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Take exit 3 for Rainier Ave S (comes up right after you get on I-90).
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Turn Right at Rainier Ave S.
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Bear Right to get on MLK Way.
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Turn Right at Andover St, and follow the road to the left, where you will see our farm to your right.
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Parking is available on Lilac St or on surrounding streets.
From MLK Way South:
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Head North on MLK Way.
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Make a U-turn at S Walden St.
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Turn Right at Andover St, and follow the road to the left, where you will see our farm to your right.
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Parking is available on Lilac St or on surrounding streets.
Public Transit
Bus:
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Take the #8 bus to Andover St.
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Turn Right on Andover St and follow the road to the left, where you will see our farm to your right.
Light Rail:
Google Satellite Map of Seattle Community Farm Location
The Seattle Community Farm is a project of Solid Ground's Lettuce Link program.
Phone: 206.694.6828
TTY: 7.1.1
Email: urbanfarm@solid-ground.org
FAX: 206.694.6777
Blog: Lettuce Link
Address: Lettuce Link
Solid Ground
1501 North 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98103-6708
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