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Ground broken on new Seattle Community Farm
An earthmover in action On Tuesday, September 28 at 7am, a long-awaited dream began to take shape as construction workers broke ground for the new Seattle Community Farm – tucked behind the Rainier...
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Fresh sprouts: The Seattle Community Farm opens!
Caitlyn Gilman bubbles over at the Grand Opening of the Seattle Community Farm We held the Grand Opening of the new Seattle Community Farm this past Saturday, June 25th. OK, that is such a blasé...
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A message of thanks to our supporters
During the past year, you have helped Solid Ground expand efforts to end poverty for local families and individuals and move them toward stability. You helped us: Brettler Family Place Open Brettler...
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Senate passes Farm Bill: So now what?
(Editor’s note: This post comes from Amelia Swinton of Solid Ground’s Hunger Action Center. Amelia has been working with the Northwest Farm Bill Action Group to lobby for policy changes to help make...
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Honey bees at the Seattle Community Farm
This post, written by Scott Behmer, Seattle Community Farm Coordinator, originally appeared on the Lettuce Link blog. Dance of the honey bees We recently acquired a new addition to the Seattle...
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Seattle Community Farm: A harvest slideshow
Seattle Community Farm panorama (all photos by John Bolivar, jbphotography.com) On one of the first cool, drizzly fall days following this year’s record-breaking dry Seattle summer, local photographer...
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November 2012 Groundviews: “Thank you for all of your help along this journey”
Groundviews is Solid Ground’s quarterly newsletter for our friends and supporters. Below is our November 2012 lead story; visit our website to read the entire issue online. November 2012 Groundviews...
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Food production to fight global warming
Editor’s note: Thanks to Amanda Horvath for this report. She currently serves as Program Outreach & Development AmeriCorps Member for Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link program. The City of Seattle has...
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Community gathering space completed at Seattle Community Farm
November 21 was a frosty morning, when work crews from Shirey Handyman Service began the two-day construction project of the last piece of the Seattle Community Farm’s infrastructure. VIA...
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40 years of healthy food & food justice
Customers in line at the Fremont Food Bank, circa 1987; the Food Bank was transferred to FamilyWorks in 1999. For more than 40 years, Solid Ground and its predecessor, the Fremont Public Association,...
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Seattle Community Farm: classroom-style
Click to view slideshow. The Seattle Community Farm (SCF) is really something else. Most of my young adolescent life was spent going to school not too far away in Columbia City, but the neighborhood...
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Food Justice: What does it mean to learn it, grow it, live it?
For some, Chefs Night Out has been a longstanding tradition of food, fun and fundraising. Local food and wine enthusiasts gather for a cocktail hour, auction, and a much anticipated dinner prepared...
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The Giving Gardener: Plant cover crops now for healthy veggies next year
This post was contributed by Scott Behmer, Seattle Community Farm Coordinator. This cover crop, planted winter 2014, was ready to be tilled by March 2015. Unlike veggies that we grow to feed us, we...
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Marra Farm serves with seeds, soil and sunshine
Nutrition & Garden Educator Pamela Ronson, Dani Ladyka from Apple Corps and volunteer Sarah Rehdner harvest chard at Marra Farm. Recently, I bused to the South Park neighborhood to volunteer at...
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