Pacific Northwest Gardening: Fire Vicar's Summer Green Elephant Event, 1 by katie59

katie59 wrote:
Victory Garden Vegi-Swap
Saturday June 5, 2010
10 AM to Noon

Whether you feel the budget crunch or just want to grow your own delicious healthy food, the vegi-swap is offered so we can exchange and share vegetable seeds and plant starts for our own Beat-the-Economy Victory Gardens. It's too late for bareroot plants but potted trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and tropicals are most welcome.

If you're interested in growing your own food, you are not alone. In 2009 we planted 20 percent more food in our home gardens to cope with the bad economy. The city government of Seattle has declared 2010 the Year of Urban Agriculture. The program, developed through the Department of Neighborhoods, aims to make locally-grown produce affordable and available to as many of Seattle’s diverse residents as possible, while supporting the urban and exurban farmers who grow it. New zoning laws will allow backyard farmers greater flexibility in what they grow and raise on residential property, and a bold pilot program is in place to create ten urban farms inside Seattle city limits.

http://holycrossredmond.org/greenelephant.htm\\