Dear Solstice Gardeners,
We are happy to share our new P-Patch Community Garden Website! This project went forward with the unanimous support of gardeners at our Spring P-Patch Meeting and was a collaborative effort spanning several months of design, research, and image collection. Many thanks to our leaders for helping this project move along: Tim Peterson, Valerie Tims, and Candace Braley were instrumental in getting this project going. Special thanks to our area leaders who have contributed lovely summaries of our P-Patch Gems--those unique beds that make our garden special.
My hope is that this website will be a useful resource for our new and veteran gardeners. As a fairly new Solstice gardener (it's officially been just over a year!), I quickly saw how special a place Solstice is, and how much work it takes to keep our garden thriving. Each of our individual gardens combined form the Solstice P-Patch urban community garden; we are brought together by a shared interest in gardening, but how and what we garden is as diverse as the experiences and backgrounds we bring. We have a special space to treasure that was borne out of the labor of many committed individuals that donated their time, vision, expertise, and of course, plants, that have made it what it is today. Keeping this history and vision alive is one way we can honor our community and this wonderful place that makes the city that much more beautiful. Many of us likely won't know who all the wonderful people were who shaped this garden before us, but we can keep the work they did alive by tending to the history of the garden with the same care that we give our individual plots.
Thank you for reading! This website is a work in progress--you will see that there are some spaces still under construction, and that there are some items that aren't here that should be. I welcome your feedback and volunteers to help contribute to the blog--just send an email to solsticeppatch@gmail.com.
Keep it kale!
Aimee Kelly