P-Patch Community Gardens

Resources

Organic Gardening Information
Tools-to help you run a Community Garden
Volunteer Resources
Grants/Fundraising
Local Governmental ordinance, resolution, or plan
Local Food Blogs
Funding
Community Garden Research Papers and Urban Agriculture Legislation
Policy

• Organic Gardening 101 (377KB PDF)
• Resources and Tips (1.7MB PDF)
• P-Patch_Planting_Calendar (2.3 MB)
• Growing Food in the City-Seattle
• Food in Seattle-Office of Sustainability
• King County Free Soil Testing Program
• Cornell University's Good Agricultural Practices Grower Self Assessment kits
• Organic Slug Solutions

Tools- to help you run a Community Garden

• P-Patch Leadership Handbook 2009 (2265 KB PDF) Full version
  • History Chapter
  • Organic Gardening Chapter
  • Leadership Chapter
• Sustainability Ideas from the Interbay P-Patch (2,075KB)
• Conflict Resolution and Grievance Procedures and Form (401KB)
• Calender Year in Tasks at a Community Garden
• Get the Word Out-Seattle Department of Neighborhoods uses many ways to communicate department events, programs, updates, and news of community activities.

Volunteer Resources-Seattle

• United Way Day of Caring
• Seattle Works
• Flash Volunteer
• Volunteer Spot
• Seattle-Change by US

Grants/Fundraising

• Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund Grant Program-City of Seattle
• Environmental Grants-King County
• Strong Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP)
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)-United States
• American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)

Local Governmental ordinance, resolution, or plan
(related to Community Gardening/Urban Agriculture)

• City of Seattle, Local Food Action Initiative
• City of Seattle, Department of Planning and Development Urban Agriculture CAM
• Ordinance 122749 -2008 Parks and Greenspace Levy
• City of Seattle, Department of Transportation-Gardening in Planting Strips CAM

Local Food Blogs

• Drizzle Diary-Blogger gardens at Cascade P-Patch
• Chef Improv-Blogger gardens at Bradner P-Patch
• Go Go Green Garden-Blogger gardens at Queen Anne P-Patch
• Gardening in Seattle-Blogger gardens Interbay
• Sustainable Eats
• Hot Cookie on the Road in Italy -Blogger gardens at Haller Lake
  

Funding

• Department of Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Matching Fund- Provides neighborhood groups with City resources for community-driven projects that enhance and strengthen their own neighborhoods.
• Urban Sparks- Urban Sparks assists those who share their professional talents with the community, making parks, gardens, trails, education programs, and buildings

Community Garden Research Papers and Urban Agriculture Legislation

Research

Growing Green: An Inventory of Public Lands Suitable for Community Gardening in Seattle, Washington (12MB PDF)

Messaging with Relevance: Some Considerations for Communicating Issues of Sustainability to Un-Messaged Communities (72KB PDF)

Which 10 Cities Have the Most Urban Gardens?

Impact of a Community Gardening Project on Vegetable Intake, Food Security and Family Relationships: A Community-based Participatory Research Study. Carney PA, Hamada JL, Rdesinski R, Sprager L, Nichols KR, Liu BY, Pelayo J, Sanchez MA, Shannon J. J Community Health. 2011 Dec 23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22194063 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Community benefit. From community gardens to whole foods. Hicks J. Hosp Health Netw. 2011 Oct;85(10):17. No abstract available. PMID: 22111260 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Benefits of Plants

Benefits of Horticulture Therapy

USC-LA Gardening Nutrition study

City of Buffalo-Queen City Gardens Report (4,746KB PDF)

An assessment of the barriers to accessing food among food-insecure people in Cobourg, Ontario. Tsang S, Holt AM, Azevedo E. Chronic Dis Inj Can. 2011 Jun;31(3):121-8. PMID: 21733349 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article

Growing Community: The Impact of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program on the Social and Learning Environment in Primary Schools. Block K, Gibbs L, Staiger PK, Gold L, Johnson B, Macfarlane S, Long C, Townsend M. Health Educ Behav. 2011 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22167317 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Best practices models for implementing, sustaining, and using instructional school gardens in California. Hazzard EL, Moreno E, Beall DL, Zidenberg-Cherr S. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2011 Sep-Oct;43(5):409-13. PMID: 21906553 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

An assessment of the barriers to accessing food among food-insecure people in Cobourg, Ontario. Tsang S, Holt AM, Azevedo E. Chronic Dis Inj Can. 2011 Jun;31(3):121-8. PMID: 21733349 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article

Growing Community: The Impact of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program on the Social and Learning Environment in Primary Schools. Block K, Gibbs L, Staiger PK, Gold L, Johnson B, Macfarlane S, Long C, Townsend M. Health Educ Behav. 2011 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22167317 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Policy/Legislation

Law & Regulation Paper: Urban Agriculture in Seattle Policy andBarriers (3492KB PDF)

National Food System Best Practices (University of Buffalo)

Chicago: Urban Agriculture Zoning Code Amendment

Beyond the USDA: How other government agencies can support a healthier, more sustainable food system (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)

City of Portland: The Diggable City: Making Urban Agriculture a Planning Priority
- Diggable City Phase III Report (PDF Document, 926kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase II (PDF Document, 582kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 6 (PDF Document, 2,904kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I- Appendices (PDF Document, 3,003kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 2 (PDF Document, 3,006kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 5 (PDF Document, 2,956kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 4 (PDF Document, 497kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 3 (PDF Document, 2,795kb) - 2/4/08 
- Diggable City Phase I - Part 1 (PDF Document, 2,511kb) - 2/4/08 

• Whole Measures for Community Food Systems (Center for the Whole Community) pdf
• San Francisco Water Power Sewer- Community Garden Irrigation Meter Grant Program
  
• Triennial Survey (2007) results