Garden-A-Glow!

Ever wonder what the garden would look like if Elves and Fairies took over at night and transformed it into a wonderful light driven wonderland?

Will the community garden got it's chance with the Burien Arts-A-Glow lantern festival. The garden was transformed into a wonderland of light: (Click on any picture to expand)

(Photos by Rob Johnson and Elise Dupre)

Above... Dottie Harper Park transformed (Photo by Elise Dupre)B-Patch from the frontOur Lullaby singerLights in the gardenMore lightsEven more!Garden from the side!

A visitor!

Arts-A-Glow! This Saturday

Looking for something fun to do this Saturday?

B-Patch Gardeners Day

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A few highlights of our first few months at the garden

A few highlights of our first few months at the garden:

· 90 pounds of produce donated to the Highline and White Center food banks

·Gardener and community potluck was held on 8/29 which included garden demos, delicious food prepared with produce grown at the garden and over 40 people!

·Developed a B-Patch blog called the Bee Patch Blog to share recipes, garden announcements and work party information - http://beepatch.blogspot.com/

·The B-Patch is on Facebook

·Working with Sustainable Burien to help finish some of the final projects in the garden’s construction

·Learning 101 ways to cook zucchini, and trying to find more things to do with all the green tomatoes!

·Featured on the Photo Friday of the B-Town Blog

·The Mayor of Burien recently toured the garden

1st B-Patch Garden Day

In concordance with World Kitchen Garden Day, We had a succesful B-Patch Garden Day with over 40 local gardeners attending. Starting with a potluck full of dishes inspired by what we grow. Followed by demo's on all sorts of garden related topics like food preservation, composting, chicken keeping, making mason bee houses and ladybug houses. prepping your garden for winter; winter gardening and much more.
Moreover it was an oppurtunity to meet and discuss our gardens and to plant friendships and prep as a community, sharing ideas along the way.

Update on B-Patch Garden Day

Potluck -1PM
* please bring your own utensils/plates/cups* please bring a dish to share, preferably with an ingredient from the b-patch - we encourage you to bring your recipe to share with other gardeners if you wish
Demos- 2PM to 4pm
Learn about a variety of garden related topics from other b-patch gardeners including: over wintering crops, putting a garden to rest for winter, self irrigating planters, canning　and storing, composting, building mason bee and lady bug houses, seed saving, and backyard chicken keeping.　 　
Contact Rob at robj98168@yahoo.com or Rebecca at rdare2@yahoo.com for more information

August 29th is B-Patch Garden Day

August 29th is B-Patch Garden Day

August 29th 2-6 pm at the B-Patch (Burien Community Garden)
POTLUCK Please bring a dish inspired by your garden
DEMOS- Everything from Self Irrigating Planters to Winter Gardening
Fun and Sun at the B-Patch
More info contact Rob at robj98168@yahoo.com or Rebecca at rdare2@yahoo.com

Kitchen Garden Day- August 22

Did you know that world's producers of chips, pretzels and fluorescent orange cheese doodles have rebranded February as "Snack Food Month?"
Well, the world's food gardeners and other healthy, delicious eaters are biting back. If they can claim a month, we can at least have a day: Kitchen Garden Day! And it will be celebrated on August 22 this year! Facebook users can show their support and solidarity with food gardeners and other healthy eaters around the world by "attending" our global event here: Kitchen Garden Day on facebook
Some Ideas to celebrate Kitchen Garden Day are:
-a walking tour of gardens in your area
-a kitchen garden or local agriculture potluck
-a kitchen garden taste-test
-a harvest or planting party
-a benefit for a local food/gardening charity
-a kitchen garden "teach in"
-a single food theme party
-an activity at a local farm
-etc