I am a gardener at a community P-Patch garden in Seattle, Washington. I also volunteer/write for the P-Patch Post, which is a free bi-yearly newspaper that is mailed to each gardener in the P-Patch program. I wrote the below article, which appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of the P-Patch Post. Her name is Bonnie […]
Ed R. worked for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in building structures for 35 years. After he retired he spent several years teaching people how to make houses out of cob (mud, straw, and sometimes sand). In his own words, here are some highlights from his recent cob and garden engineering projects: Handicap-Accessible Therapy […]
The Poquoson Learning Garden is located at the Poquoson Museum, the former sixteen acre William Freeman Dryden farm in the City of Poquoson, Virginia. The museum campus contains a circa 1900 farm house, agricultural out buildings, frontage along the marshes of Topping Creek and a country store known as ‘Miss Becky’s Store’ that served local […]
Note from the Artist and founder: “Before you read the story of the Please Touch Garden I would like to dedicate this story with a thank you to the many that helped make it possible. I did pour my heart into making the Please Touch Community Garden a reality, but it was truly the many […]