Get Creative with Play Streets
Host a play street on your block! Neighbors can get together and turn their block into a play street - up to three days a week! The permit is free, the process is accessible, and the possibilities are endless! Bike free for all Talent Show Neighborhood Crafting Party [...]
Support the Food Bank at the Community Garden
Gardeners Fred and Christal spend many hours in the various gardens they manage across the neighborhood - at the Crown Hill Center, Whitman Middle School, and the Holman Grove the garden in the triangle by the Petco. We are so lucky to have them here driving the vision [...]
Root for the Kale!
The gardeners are planting kale! We have such a perfect climate for growing kale, but the Crown Hill Community Garden was unable to grow it. When the gardeners took over the space, the dirt was full of club root - a fungus that affects the roots of most [...]
Huge Spring Haul to the Food Bank
This week, the gardeners donated 100 pounds of fresh herbs and greens to the Ballard Food Bank. Boxes of chard and miner's lettuce along with piles of fresh herbs - all harvested from the land outside the Crown Hill Center. Before this plot was turned into farmable land, [...]
Roundabout Meetup
Do you manage your block's roundabout or other right of way space? Or, Wondering how to start gardening in your roundabout? Join us on Saturday! Crown Hill Center 9250 14th Ave NW 1-2pm Meet up with your neighbors! Talk about your successes and challenges. Share and [...]
Time to Get Stuff in the Ground!
The soil is warming up, and so are the plans at the Crown Hill Community Garden! The garden donates the food to the Ballard Food Bank and so far the donations weigh in at 201 pounds. This would be an impressive amount of tomatoes, but this time of [...]