We are back w/all your favorite delicious tomato varieties, veggie starts, herbs, fruit bushes, flowers, and other assorted plant goodies! The sale is at Orca K-8 School in the lovely Hillman City neighborhood on May 18th from 10am-2pm. We will also have some baked goods & late Mother’s Day gifts. All the proceeds go to the Orca PTSA to support the only fully integrated garden program in Seattle ..read more

We are back with another incredible plant sale May 13th 2023 at Orca K-8 School! We have over 25+ tomato varieties and tons of other herbs, flowers, native plants, berries, Mother’s Day gifts & more. All veggies and tomatoes grown by students! This fundraiser helps us continue our garden education program at Orca! 10am-2pm 5215 46th Ave. S. Seattle, Wa. 98118 ..read more

We are back IN PERSON this year on May 21st, 2022 for our annual plant sale! 5215 46th Ave. S. at Orca K-8 School. Get all your favorite veggies, fruit trees/bushes, flowers, native plants, and more! Check out our SHOPIFY SITE for more info and to learn about our AFTER sale the week after the sale. https://orca-k-8-ptsa.myshopify.com ..read more

Our annual Orca salad foraging was a delicious and celebratory time in the garden! We chose between many lettuces, kales, chards, herbs, and other garden goodies. It was a resounding success with many exclamations of “GREATEST SALAD EVER!”. We have kids eating socially distanced after washing/sanitizing hands. We want this to be super safe AND amazing. We had a few organic salad dressings from PCC that the kids really enjoyed too. Many kids said they don’t like salad but when they picked our freshest of fresh salad from Orca, they kinda changed their minds ..read more

Bumble bee nestled in a artichoke flower! It’s looking beautiful, fruitful, and DRY in the garden this summer. We have our eye firmly on September and the return to school. This last year was tough for everyone and the prospect of being outside exploring in the garden sounds better than ever. My name is Anthony & I have been the garden coordinator at Orca for 13 years. This next one will be the best one yet! I have been busy harvesting and collecting herbs and plants for fall/winter activities AND trying to keep this garden alive as possible for students to enjoy. Thanks so much to the par ..read more

Hey Gardeners & Orca community members! We need your help getting the word out about our garden sale! It’s still happening! This is your last chance to pick up Orca Garden veggies, tomatoes, flowers, and cool garden swag! https://orca-k-8-ptsa.myshopify.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/477275760366806 We have over 15+ varieties left of great tomatoes. We still have some veggies! And we still have some flowering perennials and beautiful garden additions left! We are reducing prices also! Please share w/ friends, family, community members, and any fellow gardeners you can. Reme ..read more

We are back! Fully stocked and set up for a digital sale! We have an incredible selection of tomatoes (25+ varieties! Heirlooms, slicers, saucers, & cherries), veggie starts, native plants, perennials, annuals, Fruit bushes, trees, and more! We are very excited for our sale this year! All proceeds benefit the Orca K-8 PTSA & the school garden program. Plants will not be actually listed until May 1st! https://orca-k-8-ptsa.myshopify.com/ Sat. May 1st: Sale Begins. This is when the selections will show up on the website! Thurs. May 6th: Pickup plants 1-5pm Fri. May 7th: Pickup plants 1 ..read more

It’s official- we just released our Coho salmon after 3 months of raising them up from eggs in the greenhouse. Kids got be involved every step of the way (virtually of course). My teaching area was located directly in front of the salmon tank, so I had the most incredible “green screen” imaginable. Every class we would check in on them and observe their growth & changes. We also sent home some great salmon activity packs & a great board game about salmon migration. Thanks so much to Nancy at Salmon In Schools who always really helps us out with materials & inspiration. Evidently w ..read more

It has been a mind blowing last few months! It’s been hard to step back from the action and compose even a brief summary of the blow by blow action. The Orca Garden program went fully online this Fall with each K-5 class still receiving their usual weekly garden class. But what to do when one steps in front of a TEAMS meeting on camera? I was wracking my brain in August wondering what could we actually do to create meaningful garden experiences digitally in 2D? Well we got to work quick! The first thing I did was come up with a list of awesome garden foods we could hand out in front of the sch ..read more