Come see us! The West Seattle Edible Garden Tour

We are back in the saddle after a 2-week Saskatchewan crop tour, where the mustard is flowering and the wheat is shaping up.

The real deal

And now that we are back, it is time to announce a little crop tour of our own:

The West Seattle Edible Garden Tour is this Saturday, August 1, 10AM-4PM, and Urban Land Army Headquarters is on the route!

Stop by and see us and check out the Grow It Yourself garden, which is now a veritable jungle.

You can also check out a whole other garden that hasn’t been part of our picture show on the website.

It packs in 5 kinds of beans…

20 heirloom tomato plants…

an Egyptian walking onion patch…

an herb spiral (what the?)…

…and much more.

We’ll give you a tour of the grounds, answer your questions, and tell you how we built the garden using sheet mulching and permaculture techniques. We’ll lift the lids on the worm bins and show you how you can compost your food scraps at home, and maybe even get real down-home and do a little garlic braiding.

We’ll also point out what has worked, what has died a horrible death, and why.

For those interested in garden art and “hardscaping”, Urban Land Army’s Head Scavenger will be on hand to discuss the finer points of procuring rock and brick in the city, and the particular promise of used bakery equipment in a garden setting.

So stop by and see us, eh?

We’d love to meet you.

And be sure to check out the other lovely gardens on the tour - vegetables, bees, chickens, and even a hot tub garden await you! Download the tour map at www.ediblewestseattle.org.

The 2nd Annual West Seattle Edible Garden Tour is sponsored by Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle and the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Good work, people.