P-Patch Trust

Music. Food. Friends. Gardening. Labor Day weekend. They’re all available at the Blues for Food Fest!

The fourth annual Blues For Food Fest is an “all-day celebration of good food, good friends and good music”. This celebration features local blues bands as a fundraiser for the P-Patch Trust and the Washington Blues Society Musicians Relief Fund.

The event raises awareness about hunger and celebrates the P-Patch giving gardens that donate over 28,000 pounds of organic produce to food banks and meals programs each year.

The festival also features one of our favorite booths - “Beet Hunger”, where you can conveniently donate your homegrown produce! After the festival Lettuce Link will deliver donations to a local meals program or food bank.

Blues for Food Fest
Saturday, September 4, 12pm - 7:30pm.
Magnuson Park Amphitheatre and P-Patch, 7400 Sand Point Way NE

What else to do at the Blues for Food Fest?
-Enjoy Creole soul food from Where Ya At Matt - Seattle’s latest food truck sensation
-Bid on delectable pies and an Art of the Pie cooking class at the homemade pie auction
-Enjoy family fun: worm bin exploration, bug hunts, seed saving, nature art sculptures, and veggie harvests in the P-Patch
-Learn how P-Patch gardeners are educating and inspiring all age groups about the joys of organic gardening

And of course, music!
12:00 - 1:00 Kim Archer
1:30 - 2:30 Red Hot Blues Sisters
3:00 - 4:00 Junkyard Jane
4:30 - 5:30 Randy Oxford Band
6:00 - 7:30 Patty Allen All Star Band

The Blues for Food Fest is organized each year by Deb Rock, stellar Interbay P-Patcher and food bank gardener extraordinaire. Deb and Jude from Interbay P-Patch organize efforts to donate over 5,000 pounds of produce each season.

Buy tickets! $15 in advance at Brown Paper Tickets, $20 at the door. Kids: $8 and $10

The Blues for Food Fest is a collaboration with the Washington Blues Society.

**This event is sold out, please plan to join us next year.**

Tuesday, July 20
Interbay P-Patch: 2451 15th Ave West

Renowned Chef Tom Douglas is bringing his genius for magical menus to the P-Patch Trust’s Chef in the Garden event on Tuesday, July 20. The al fresco evening in the Interbay P-Patch will feature Tom as the guest chef, preparing an array of dishes that emphasize locally sourced, garden-fresh ingredients and innovative flavor combinations.

The menu includes appetizers of fava beans and ricotta with mint, and a green bean casserole tart; a first course of roasted beets and icicle radishes served with Dahlia Bakery bread; an entrée of New York steak with Chanterelle relish, and a grain mustard potato salad; and blueberry crisp with lemon verbena sherbet for dessert. Diners may opt for a vegetarian entrée: a summer vegetable crostada with Chevre cheese.

Each course will be paired with fine Northwest wines.

Hors d’oeurves and wine will be served beginning at 6 p.m., and guests are welcome to stroll through the extensive Interbay P-Patch – one of the city’s largest and most developed – with glass in hand. Dinner seating will be at 7 p.m.

The annual Chef in the Garden event, which is limited to 100 diners, is the Trust’s primary fund-raising effort. All-inclusive tickets for Chef in the Garden are $99. They can be purchased online beginning June 20 at Brown Paper Tickets, https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117115 or in person at Brown Paper Ticket locations listed on the website.

The P-Patch Trust is a nonprofit organization that works to acquire, build and protect community gardens in Seattle’s neighborhoods. The Trust supports the Seattle P-Patch Program and owns several garden sites. It strives to provide community gardening opportunities for all Seattle residents, particularly those of low income, and promotes donations of produce to local food banks.

People wanting more details about the Chef in the Garden event or the P-Patch Trust can visit the Trust’s website, www.ppatchtrust.org, or call 425 329-1601.