Marra Farm in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood hosts a P-Patch Community Garden, a Senior Garden, and many other uses, including offering a place to learn about organic produce, cultivation and environmental stewardship.
Marra also supports a volunteer based “Giving Garden” that grows food for local food banks. Solid Ground’s Community Food Education Program educates neighbors and volunteers while growing food for the community.
Solid Ground — which is also the organization that hosts RSVP (Retired Senior & Volunteer Program) is seeking volunteers to roll up their sleeves and join them. You can help build soil, prepare vegetable beds, plant vegetable starts and seeds, weed by hand, compost, water, harvest, wash produce, and distribute produce to the local food bank and other locations.
Solid Ground’s website states: “Many of our volunteers start with limited or no gardening knowledge and learn as they go, so we welcome you with whatever level of gardening skills and knowledge you bring.”
Families and groups are very welcome. Drop-in hours are available, and you will be oriented to the site on your first day of volunteering.
MORE INFORMATION
- To learn more or sign up for Solid Ground’s Marra Farm program, visit Growing Garden
- Can’t make it to Marra Garden but still want to help the hungry? Consider planting an extra row in your own garden to donate to your local food bank!
- For more information about Marra Farm, visit https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/p-patch-gardening/garden-list/marra-farm
