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Lettuce Link (an innovative food and gardening program growing and giving since 1988) creates access to fresh, nutritious and organic produce, seeds, and gardening information for families with lower incomes 
in Seattle. We work to educate the community about food security and sustainable food production.


                                                            Photo by Ben Feigert
What We Do:

• We encourage people to grow food for their families. To promote self-sufficiency, we distribute seeds, plant starts and gardening information to low-income gardeners all over the city.
  
  
• We coordinate with over 30 P-Patch community gardens, mobilizing and supporting P-Patch gardeners to plant an EXTRA row of produce for food banks and meals programs. In 2008, over 22,000 pounds of organic produce was grown and given to over two dozen providers, feeding hundreds of people. (See our 2009 Giving Garden Donation Charts!) You can also download our garden signs to use in your P-Patch or community garden.
  
  
• We garden and donate organic produce to food banks. At Marra Farm in the South Park neighborhood, we cultivate a 3/4-acre Giving Garden on this historic urban farmland, and donate harvests to a nearby food bank. Read more about our Giving Garden at Marra Farm.
  
  
• We educate children about nutrition and sustainable food production. Also at Marra farm, we facilitate experiential learning programs so elementary students learn about healthy food and how to grow it.
  
  
• We harvest fruit from neighborhood backyards. Lettuce Link's Community Fruit Tree Harvest project engages volunteers to pick fruit from neighborhood trees and deliver hundreds of pounds of locally grown, unsprayed fruit to meals programs and food banks.

Interested in Volunteering with Lettuce Link?
Lettuce Link relies on dedicated volunteers to make our programs a success. Here are just a few ways you can contribute:

• Help grow fresh, organic produce to donate at local food banks. Spend part of your day getting your hands dirty at the Giving Garden at Marra Farm.
  
  
• Share your gardening knowledge with food bank clients and children. Spend part of your day distributing seeds at food banks or helping with the children's program at Marra Farm.
  
  
• Help pick fruit trees. Spend part of your day picking fruit trees with other volunteers. The season runs from approximately July to September.
  
  
• Bilingual? Help translate at Lettuce Link events. We are always looking for skilled translators, especially Spanish and Russian.

• Giving Garden sign (pdf): Post this generic sign to identify the Giving Garden plot at your P-Patch.
• Giving Garden sign template (Word): You can personalize this sign with your P-Patch name and where the food will be donated. Change the sections highlighted in yellow.
• Produce Donation Tips sign (Word): Fill in the information about where donations will be delivered, and post it on community boards or food bank sheds.
• You Are Invited to Donate sign (Word): Fill in the information about where and when donations will be delivered, and post it on community boards or food bank sheds.
• Plant an EXTRA Row sign (pdf): Another great tool for encouraging gardeners to donate.
• Translated vegetable signs (pdfs): These signs name common giving garden produce and briefly explain how to prepare them. Print and fold them over for double-sided signs you can use to mark rows of vegetables in your garden. (Please note: These are high print quality pdfs, so they may take a few moments to download.)

Phone:      206.694.6754   
TTY:          7.1.1
Email:       lettucelink@solid-ground.org
FAX:         206.694.6777
Blog:         Lettuce Link.
Address:   Lettuce Link
                Solid Ground 
                1501 North 45th Street 
                Seattle, WA 98103-6708