Picardo Farm P-Patch in September
Picardo Farm P-Patch in September
Picardo Farm P-Patch in September
Picardo Farm P-Patch in September
Picardo Farm P-Patch in September
Picardo Farm P-Patch is the oldest community garden in Seattle. The P in p-patch stands for Picardo. The Picardo family, Italian immigrants who arrived in Seattle in the 1890s, bought this property in 1922 in what had been the Ravenna Swamp & farmed it until 1962. The swamp was essentially a peat bog & the soil here remains exceptionally rich in organic matter. It is one of only 2 historical farms preserved in the City of Seattle. This p-patch & the p-patch program were established in 1973. There are 302 plots on 98,000 square feet owned by the Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation. It is located in the Wedgwood neighborhood of northeast Seattle along 25th Avenue NE between NE 80th & 82nd Streets.
In 2013, resistance to the new policy limiting the size of individual plots was centered at Picardo Farm. It was said that one gardener there had more than 2,000 square feet of space, 10x the size of the average plot. The P-Patch Program sets maximum & minimum plot size
for each p-patch based on 2 criteria, the average wait for a plot & the p-patch size. In
December 2013, 45 gardeners in 13 gardens
(2% of all gardeners) had to reduce plot sizes. Plot sizes are generally 50 to 200 square feet.
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