Over the next few days you’ll be seeing a lot of photo’s of Ryan and I traveling around town visiting local gardens to give away boatloads of Botanical Interest Seeds to charity’s and organizations we think are pretty cool.

Ryan arrived in Seattle around 10 am this morning for the Mother Earth News Fair this coming weekend and by noon we were on the road.

Our first stop was St. John Bosco’s Church in Lakewood, Washington. I had learned about St. John Bosco’s last fall when reader Michelle told me about their food bank garden.

The church garden started 16 years ago and in the beginning only grew flowers for church services. A few years later, seeing the need in their community they decided to turn it in to vegetable garden.

Last year they harvested {and donated} over 5,600 pounds of vegetables to their local food bank.

The St. John Bosco’s Church garden is maintained by it’s members who come together one day a week for about 3 hours starting around mid February. Rain or shine they are out there every week working in their 20+ square foot garden beds.

Today we were able to donate over 500 seed packets to the St. John Bosco’s garden crew so they can continue on their mission of feeding their community. How cool is that?

We also stopped by the Family Renewal Center in Tacoma, Washington. The Family Renewal Center is a wonderful organization dedicated to bringing healing, hope and new life to victims of domestic violence. Not only does the Family Renewal Center provide transitional housing for victims for up to 18 months, they also have an incredible garden where the residents grow organic fruits and vegetables for their families.

Giving back is cool, now matter how you do it.

THANK YOU to the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company for donating all these seeds!

~Mavis