Community Gardens In Winter

When it’s winter, community gardens are vital wildlife habitats and so much more. How do you get ready for winter? During the cold season, what happens in your community garden? Share it here, at wintergardens.greenmap.org.

Let’s chart our cool weather garden culture, mapped out across the continent together.

Use your phone and respond to this survey:  It will appear on this map! 

Gardeners can select icons for habitat, bird watching, holiday events, decorations, snow play and snow stargazing.
Cool weather is good for soil building, seed saving, bulb planting, pruning and street tree care, grant writing, planning, repairs and more.

Share your garden’s winter highlights and help change perceptions about the seasonality of community gardens.

Winter Scarecrow at Bradner
Bradner Gardens Park
Food Gathering Site
Community Garden
Healthy Soil
Picnic Spot or Healthy Dining
Reusable Materials
Composting Site
Public Space or Square
Bird and Wildlife Watching
Eco Landscaping
Art Spot
Local Music
Volunteer Site
Significant Habitat
Child Friendly Site
Lively Spot
Senior Friendly Site
Environmental Education
Wheelchair Accessible
Bicycle Site

Grow winter crops such as mustard greens, kale, and chard.  Grow cover crops such as clover and rye.  Mulch beds with leaves, greens and coffee.Follow us at facebook.com/bradnergardens and read about us on the Seattle Parks website.

Community Garden
Food Gathering Site

Growing cold weather crops like beet, carrots, onions, brassicas - photo from Freed Park online & Streetview

Siempre Verde Garden
Community Garden
Snow Activity
Healthy Soil
Composting Site
Food Gathering Site
Bird and Wildlife Watching
Volunteer Site
Art Spot
Historical feature
Ecotourism Resource

Everyone can view the garden, year round! The composting areas are active all the time, providing soil for spring planting. There are several birds and squirrels living at Siempre Verde, too, as well as majestic hawks looking for lunch. The colorful graffiti always draws comments. People with raised beds continue to harvest hardy greens like kale, collards, etc. 

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