Seattle Tilth Gardens
Seattle Tilth maintains community learning gardens in North, South/Central, South Seattle and in Issaquah.
Get directions to Seattle Tilth's community learning gardens:
- Behind the Good Shepherd Center in the Wallingford neighborhood
- At Bradner Gardens Park in Mt. Baker neighborhood
- The Rainier Beach Learning Garden
- The Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
- Seattle Youth Garden Works Farm
- Seattle Tilth Farm Works
- At Issaquah's Pickering Barn
- Directions to Thurgood Marshall Learning Garden
These gardens are designed for public learning. You can take a self-guided tour and learn about gardening techniques from signs posted in the beds (not yet available at Rainier Beach). The gardens also serve as an outdoor classroom for people who take our classes and for volunteers who work alongside teaching staff to maintain theses gardens.
Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands
Seattle Tilth has been granted operatorship of this site with our partners Friends of Atlantic City Nursery on this land owned by Seattle Parks and Recreation. We are developing it into a community learning farm. Find our more...
Rainier Beach Learning Garden
We are delighted to have launched a new learning garden in August '09 in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of south Seattle. The garden is located behind the Rainier Beach Community Center and the South Shore School. Educational programs are being led and managed by Seattle Tilth, supported by partners the New School Foundation and Seattle Parks Department. Find out more about...
Seattle Youth Garden Works Farm
This program supports homeless and street-oriented youth to learn to grow food organically and gain business experience while learning basic job and leadership skills. This mini urban farm is located at the Center for Urban Horticulture, part of the UW Botanic Garden. Find out more...
Seattle Tilth at Issaquah's Pickering Barn
We began a partnership with the City of Issaquah's Resource Conservation Office in 2008 to offer classes at the Pickering Barn. This historic agricultural site is a beautiful location for Seattle Tilth to teach organic gardening to people living east of Lake Washington. Find out more...
Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center
The first Seattle Tilth garden was built in 1978 behind the Good Shepherd Center by a group of visionaries who thought Seattle needed an urban agricultural center. Volunteers ripped up old concrete play courts and created a garden that has educated and inspired visitors for over thirty years. Techniques in the garden include year-round organic vegetable gardening, fruit producing trees and shrubs, drought tolerant and disease-resistant ornamental plantings, Permaculture design, rain water harvesting, a green roof on our greenhouse, yard waste and food waste composting, soil building techniques, Pacific NW native plants, food bearing perennials, and a NW rain garden.
Visit the garden for a self-guided tour by following the educational signs. See classes at the Good Shepherd Center...
The Children's Garden Behind the Good Shepherd Center
The Children's Garden evolved from an abandoned swimming pool basin, more than twenty years ago. Teachers in the children's garden have developed unique hands-on garden curriculum over the years, and published a teaching manual based on their experience called Teaching Peace Through Gardening in 1996, written by Anne Petersen and edited by Rob Peterson. Today, the Children's Garden provides educational hands-on tours and summer camps for 5,000+ people each year. This garden is also a unique learning lab for educators, including an internship program and classes for educators.
Bradner Gardens Park
Built in 2000, Bradner Gardens Park is a unique collaborative partnership between City of Seattle Parks Department, Seattle Tilth, Washington Native Plant Society, King County Master Gardeners, P-Patch and neighborhood residents. All of the park's demonstrations are maintained by volunteers and are 100% organic. The Seattle Tilth part of the garden showcases year-round vegetable gardening, raised beds, plants that attract beneficial insects, swale gardening, soil building techniques, and water-wise drip irrigation. The garden also has a bounty of art, creative arbors, a unique and beautiful pavilion, and a prominent wind vane. Take a look at classes offered in SE Seattle...
