Grow Food for your Food Bank!

Whether it be dedicating a portion of produce from your home garden to our food bank or dropping in on a garden work party, your work to bring in more healthy food for our food guests will be met with a tremendous amount of appreciation!

Did you know that there are approximately 523 different ways you can support Rainier Valley Food Bank? Well maybe not that exact number, but the options are varied and plentiful! Several of them entail contributing to food growing efforts that supply our facility with the fresh produce our guests need.

Have a garden of your own?!
Awesome! When your berry bush, tomato plant, pumpkin patch, fig tree, whatever it be, starts producing more than your family needs, bring it over to the food bank! For every bag of produce we receive from home gardeners, we will give you a packet of seeds to keep your garden growin’. Every little bit helps, so instead of letting it to go the worms, bring your garden goodies into RVFB and get some seeds in return.

Don’t have a garden?!
You are still awesome because there are numerous local p-patches, gardens, and farms, where you can learn gardening basics or share what knowledge you already know while supporting sites that give food to our food bank. Listed below are several farms and gardens in Southeast Seattle where you can gain community service hours, catch some vitamin D, and help grow food for our food bank!

Seattle Community Farm
Tuesdays: 9am-1pm
Saturdays: 10am-2pm
Thursdays: 5pm-8pm

Beacon Hill Farm
Sundays: 5:00pm-8:00pm

Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Project
Saturday: 10:00am-3:00pm

Judkins P-Patch
Friday Harvests in May!
Sundays: Garden Mentorship- great for beginning gardeners!

Find them here: Food Map!

For more info: contact lili@rvfb.org