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Maple Leaf Community Garden

Location: Northeast Seattle
Address: 529 N.E. 103rd St.
Acreage: 0.37

This small community garden boasts the sweetest design for a p-patch I’ve seen in a Seattle park. The stairway, which has tile art on each step, leads up to a round storage building that […]

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Summit Slope Park

April 14, 2011
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Location: Central Seattle
Address: 200 Summit Ave. E.
Acreage: 0.21

Volunteers were putting finishing touches on the p-patch on the sunny day I visited Summit Slope Park. The design and landscaping of this Capitol Hill park are really nicely done with a terraced lawn and careful […]

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Linden Orchard Park

May 27, 2010
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Location: North Seattle
Address: N. 67th St. and Linden Ave. N.
Acreage: 0.33

I love the entrance to this park with stairs that spill down the corner inviting you in to explore the native plants and trees that line the paths. This north Seattle park used to […]

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Picardo (Rainie) P-Patch

March 16, 2010
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Location: North Seattle/Wedgwood
Address: N.E. 82nd St. and N.E. 25th Ave.
Acreage: 2.93

Did you know that the term P-Patch is native to Seattle? And, it doesn’t refer to “pea-patch,” as some people think. The “P” comes from “Picardo,” which is […]

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