Come join us for a class or hands on workshop, or peruse an information table and ask us your gardening questions. We are out and about in King County all year-round sharing natural gardening advice and resources. Call or email to ask questions about any event.
JANUARY
Community Resource Fair
Saturday January 18, 2025 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
King County Library – Tukwila
14380 Tukwila International Boulevard Tukwila, WA 98168
In partnership with Seattle/King County Public Health Community Navigators and KCLS visit our table to learn about natural gardening techniques for your garden. Also find Social service providers who will be available to help connect attendees with resources such as healthcare, education, legal clinics and more!
Tukwila Library Registration not required.
Great Seattle Seed Swap
Saturday January 25, 2025 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Phinney Center – Brick Building
6352 Phinney Ave. N Seattle, WA 98103
At the Great Seattle Seed Swap you will find a family-friendly gathering for gardeners of all experience levels to share seeds, gardening resources and connect with each other. Bring your garden-saved seeds, excess seeds you have from opened packets or just yourself if you’re just getting started.
We will feature Garden Hotline educators and Master Composter Sustainability Stewards on site through the afternoon to answer your questions. Also look for our friends and partners in other green organizations from around the area.
This is also our good friend Seed Savers Exchange 50th anniversary year and there will be many seed swaps on this date across the country to celebrate the diversity of seed and our devotion to protecting that diversity by actively saving regionally important and healthy seeds. Come learn how and share seed with your neighbors.
High Point Seed Library – Seed Packaging Party
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Seattle Public Library – High Point
3411 SW Raymond Street Seattle, WA 98126
Drop in to help us pack and label seeds for the High Point Seed Library! In 2024, we successfully distributed over 2,000 packages of seeds to our local West Seattle community. Help the 2025 growing season get off to a great start! Meet new friends and neighbors! Enjoy hot cocoa, coffee, and snacks! Take home a variety of seeds as a thank you! Help out and have fun!
Thanks to our partners Seattle Public Library – High Point, High Point Open Space Association and The West Seattle Bee Garden.
High Point Library Registration is not required
AKIN Resource Fair
Tuesday January 28, 2025 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
12360 Lake City Way NE Seattle, WA 98125
Join us at the AKIN Resource Fair to ask your gardening questions and get ready for the growing season! Find other organizations in the heart of Lake City, offering resources on health care, NE Seattle Tool Library, Family Works, housing, Seattle Public Library, childcare and pre-school, and food access.
AKIN – Children’s Home Society and Childhaven have joined forces
Seed Swap and Community Kitchen
Saturday February 1, 2025 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
5513 S. Cloverdale St. Seattle, WA 98118
Join Tilth Alliance, the Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands, the Garden Hotline, and the Community Kitchen Meals program for a delightful and delicious afternoon seed swap! Bring your extra seeds, your garden questions and your appetite. Enjoy a meal made from seeds and take recipes home to recreate the fun at home
The Seed Swap tables will have all kinds of seeds for your edible, medicinal and floral gardens. We welcome you to add your labeled extra seeds to the mix and take lots home too. We will also be sharing live stake cuttings from our wetland plants like Thimbleberry, Salmonberry, and Ninebark. We’ll have other family activities, educational information to share, and the Garden Hotline will be there to answer all your gardening questions right on the spot.
Please register – RBUFW
Seattle Theater Group – Kerry Hall Open House
Wednesday February 5, 2025 5:00 – 8:00 pm
STG – Kerry Hall
710 E. Roy St. Seattle, WA 98102
Join Seed2Fork Farm and the Garden Hotline to view the new digs for STG at Kerry Hall. Seed2Fork will be one of the groups accessing this space as it unfolds for community engagement. Garden Hotline will be present to learn and share their programming that night working with Seed2Fork Farm.