A great exercise to stretch your imagination and let it play! This simple outline can be used to design your own dream garden. It includes questions to get your creative thoughts flowing, helpful tips, and a companion planting guide!
These recipes utilize ingredients that flourish in gardens during Washington's spring, like mint and radishes. Learn how to cook Southeast Asian-Style Radish Salad, Potato Salad for Spring, and Rice and Chicken Salad with Peas and Mint. We're hungry just writing this!
Round 2 of our Spring In Seattle Neighborhood Plant Bingo series! Feel free to share your findings with us at diggit@greenplatespecial.org, and we might shout you out on our social media. <3
With so many cloudy days ahead of us we thought y'all might appreciate a scavenger hunt you can complete while staying cozy inside! It's funny how a much you can discover about your own space when completing a simple little exercise like this - it gives you a whole new appreciation for your surroundings. Share what you find with us!
This article contains a pop quiz about the ever-fabulous Green Plate Special chickens as well as some nifty information about the different parts of a chicken.
Our garden coordinator, Annie Reading, will walk you through the basics of planting your own potatoes at home! This article also includes photos to visually demonstrate what potato planting looks like.
Please feel free to use our Neighborhood Plant Bingo card as one way to connect with the plants in your area, and share it with your friends/family so they can give it a shot too!
Looking for a safe way to connect with nature, soak up a little sunshine, and be present outdoors? Our education director, Maia Bernstein, has designed and illustrated a sensory walk for you to enjoy this weekend! We also wanted to share a seed scavenger hunt created by Shelburne Farms in their book "Cultivating Joy & Wonder".
“For me, fermentation is a health regimen, a gourmet art, a multicultural adventure, a form of activism, and a spiritual path, all rolled into one.” --Sandor Katz, Wild Fermentation
Straight from Maia's kitchen! This post contains a video in which our education director, Maia Bernstein, shows us a few fermentation projects that she's been working on and explains what makes them bubble. Preserve fruits and veggies in your own home today using the recipes included.
