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2011 DONATIONS: (2012 DONATIONS ARE CLOSED!) You will be able to see new organizations for 2012 by late Winter. ...about our favorite thing to do... pack a box full of seeds and send it on its' way!
1) Whatcom School Garden Collective: Whatcom County, WA. A new project of over 12 new school gardens spearheaded by the good folks at Common Threads Farm.
2) GruB: Garden Raised Bounty: Olympia, WA. "Grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing community by empowering people to engage in the creation of a sustainable food system." Building 100 free backyard gardens and providing garden support, seeds, and starts. 3) Oregon Tilth Organic Education Center: Corvallis, OR ....seeks to strengthen the health of families, communities, and the environment by providing experiential learning opportunities in biologically sound urban agriculture. Through hands-on educational programs we teach people about the sources of their food and the ease and abundance of organic gardening. In collaboration with local business, farmers, students and government, the OEC works as a regional resource hub for sustainable food growing.
4) Local Food Works: Whatcom County, WA. Distributing baskets of seeds and supplies to encourage families in the foothills area to grow their own gardens as well as share their bounty with local food distribution centers. Port Townsend, WA- provides affordable garden space, offers classes to educate their community on nutrition through gardening, as well as growing produce for the local food banks, and creating a community program that helps people to help themselves.
6) Classroom in Bloom: Twisp, WA- is a, 1/2-acre garden on the shared campus of Liberty Bell High School and Methow Valley Elementary School that provides hundreds of pounds of food to the cafeteria each year, as well as an outdoor classroom for biology, math, life science, art, and English. Every week, about 300 students from the schools visit the garden to learn from their school teachers, or from Classroom in Bloom teachers, who work with students two days a week.
7) Land and Sea Slow Food: Friday Harbor, WA- demonstration garden for the local schools. This garden grows food for the school cafeteria, allows students and community volunteers to lend a handand provides a backdrop for development of an integrated curriculum learning environment (the high school has a Chef 101 program that teaches kids how to
cook with real food that gets served to students and community alike). Lynden, WA.
School garden by the 7th grade class headed by Phyllis Berquist!
Dexter, OR
10) Solid Ground/Lettuce Link: Seattle, WA- creates access to fresh, nutritious and organic produce, seeds, and gardening information for families with lower incomes
in Seattle. Check out the website...this only tells the very basics of what they do! 11) Skagit County Community Action Agency: Mount Vernon, WA- Victory Garden program that encourages local gardeners to pledge extra rows of food in their home gardens to donate to local food banks.
12) La Conner Cooperative Preschool: La Connor, WA- Learning Garden for children and families with ambitions to teach sustainable growing, benefits of eating locally, and environmental care.
13) Bellingham Food Bank: Bellingham, WA- BFB Garden project builds raised gardens with participants eligible for food assistance, provides seeds and starts and a garden mentor to get folks growing and eating their own vegies! The Food Bank Farm operates a 3 acre farm and grows vegetables exclusively for food bank families.
14) Animals As Natural Therapy: Bellingham, WA- Empowers individuals of all ages as well as victims of addiction and domestic violence through honest relationships developed with animal partners.
15) Liv Fest 2011: May 21st 10:30-9PM in the Farihaven Village Green. Please click on the link to learn how you can help Olivia Cook and the Cook Family.
In solidarity with Latino farmworkers, whose skill and labor drive our domestic agricultural economy, we are happy to donate to immigration and advocacy organizations working in the state of Washington. We honor these communities and the cultural riches they bring our country.
We love to hear about new gardens in schools. If you are a school that would like a donation of seeds, please mail us a letter and we'll happily see what we can do. We donate all previous year seeds to schools, non-profits, community gardens, etc. Send a letter along with your request and detail specific varieties, quantities, and non-profit # to:
Uprising Seeds
2208 Iron St
Bellingham, WA 98225
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