Ciscoe recently visited our garden at UWBG and interviewed our youth and Youth and Farm Manager, Colin Anderson. View the clip here!

Mykel Taylor wrote this piece for the Lewiston Tribune Online.

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Greetings from the Garden:

Strengthening our foundation. That’s how we classify 2008 – we see big changes in our future (check out “A New Season of Growth” inside), and 2008 was the year we started to build the beds and lay the groundwork for them. Success rates in our garden education program improved in every aspect, from increased housing opportunities to improved job skills. You can read a note from a grateful parent inside to learn more about one life SYGW touched this year!

SYGW gets a mention from Matt Dillon in April 2009's issue of Food and Wine.

Seattle Youth Garden Works at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens will be one of Outstanding in the Field's featured sites. Our guest chef will be Matt Dillon of Sitka and Spruce and the Corson Building.

Outstanding in the field was started by Chef Jim Denevan in 1999 in his hometown of Santa Cruz, California. His idea was to bring diners back to the source. He wanted dinners to happen right on the soil where the food on their plates came from with the farmers who brought it there.

Seattle Youth Garden Works is featured in Horizons, a magazine for Presbyterian Women.
"Just as a garden grows best when plants appropriate for the region are planted, successful youth gardening programs thrive most when they respond to community needs and personalities."

The article can be viewed here

KOMO news interviews lead gardener, Darvell Maund for this feature. "When 16-year-old Darvell Maund got caught breaking the law, he was headed for juvenile hall. But he was also given another choice - working in the garden...
'Without this program I'd probably be locked up right now,' he says. 'Because before this program I was doing a lot of stupid stuff.' "

To read more or view the footage, please go here.

In its April 2007 issue, Youth Today featured Seattle Youth Garden Works. It said "(SYGW) provides job training through garden-based education and employment. Youth grow organic produce and sell it at local farmers’ markets and garden fairs, and to a small number of local restaurants. Youth work after school hours for 10 to 20 hours a week, earning a wage and a share of the profits."

"The initial program lasts 12 weeks, with a few youths continuing in leadership positions as lead youth gardeners for up to one year."