Our Mission
Most community gardens in Seattle have a 3-5 year waitlist. This leaves many potential gardeners without a place to call their own.
During the summer, most planting strips remain unused. On a typical residential block, this leaves over an acre of open space primed for a new life.
The City of Seattle’s property bylaws encourages homeowners to use their planting strip for vegetable gardens and pollinator meadows.
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At no charge, we endow our gardeners with a place to call their own.
Through transforming planting strips into flourishing pollinator meadows and vegetable patches, our gardens bring color and vibrancy to the neighborhood in the summer’s driest months.
The space you donate is used to build new gardens. Replacing your grass reduces your carbon footprint and provides vital homes for our pollinator friends.
By building relationships with local gardeners, we ensure your lawn's next life is in good hands.
Like many of Seattle’s aspiring gardeners, we struggled to find space to grow. The P-Patch program had a 3 to 5-year waitlist, and other gardens were either full or the land had been sold to developers.
After learning about the Gardening in the Planting Strip permit from the City of Seattle, we began reaching out to local landowners. Thankfully, Paul at Limback Lumber understood our predicament and offered to help.
While working in our garden, many people stopped to ask how we acquired the space. Noticing the abundance of empty planting strips in our neighborhood, we reached out to more local landowners and asked if we could repurpose their land. Fortunately, the responses were positive, and in 2024, we launched Spatula Farms with three gardens and one wildflower meadow.
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