Fruit and berries and greens and herbs.
The upper half is space for locals to garden, you can contact the Food Forest and apply for space.
The lower half is fully open to the public to pick from. The park gets a little bare in winter but you can still find greens and herbs.
This garden was lush and beautiful, and abundant with edibles to try!! Tey the thornless blackberry--they're HUGE! I took a few berries to try and propagate them. I wish I knew more about the history, design, and design decisions. The plaques are fading. I heard that the first thing they did was dig rows of trenches and fill them with woodchips to both hold water (hugelkultur), act as swales, and quickly add biomass. It clearly did wonders. We need more of these, in every town!!
Wow... epic example of a regenerative system of food foresting
Cool place, wish more people knew about this so they could help contribute.
Now working on phase 3 to add ADA accessible trail
Such a cool experience- and the raspberries were delicious
One of the best community gardens in the city. Adjacent to Jefferson Park and beautiful view of the Port.
Community service days in Saturday per month. Great place to work, share, and walk.
The Beacon Food Forest strikes me as a very thoughtful and open-minded project. The various volunteer groups and grants that are behind this space have a very community-centered approach. There are several areas that are open to foraging, including a double-helix shaped raised bed area, and a raspberry patch (ripe at the time of our visit in June!). There are garden plots which are rented out by community members. Finally, there is a nice rest area structure that folks can use to sit and find some shade.
Enjoy a peaceful stroll through the food forest and you will probably learn so much about the local ecology and permaculture!
Such a gem of a garden to explore and discover what will grow in our city. Looking forward to seeing it grow over the years. When we visited things seemed to just be starting.
The Beacon Food Forest is an amazing place where plants and people create an amazingly supportive and engaged community. This project is incredible and will only get bigger and better as the days march on.
I attended the June 14th, 2014 Work Party and had a wonderful time and met incredible people. It is park of the Public Park in Beacon Hill so you may see it anytime. Most of it now is pea-patches that are rented out to families and individuals, but the lower portion and the beds around the donated shade area are communal!
Find out when the next event at the Food Forest is and come down to meet new people and learn a lot about food and sustainability. :)
Went to my grandson's soccer game.. It was cold and raining
It's been wonderful to watch this area grow and be tended over the years. It's a great place to walk through with some toddlers so long as they can control themselves from picking unripe things.
It could use some more benches and a bathroom, but other than that it's a great area to be surrounded by plants.
What a great concept! I look forward to watching the site expand and grow.
I have never been there!! I live in Texas ,think this is a great plan for areas that have food deserts.
The garden has not been coordinated, there is no plan, no highlights! I still want to give them a little encouragement! Many caring people, like you!
Cool place to walk around. The harvest area can be a bit tricky
Public land, volunteer driven, community supported. The BFF encourages and engages all members of the community to learn, share and grow food. It's beautiful!!
An awesome food forest - volunteer run that is doing great things for this neighborhood and city! Absolutely beautiful place to visit and I highly recommend volunteering for them!
I love the food forest! They even have thimble berries! But there are also some community garden P-Patches mixed in, so it can sometimes be difficult to tell what you're allowed to harvest.
Every city needs food forests. Very cool concept. Was excited to pick some tomatoes, plums, nasturtiums and green beans to snack on and share with my hosts.
My favorite place in Seattle, hands down. Magical community effort and a model for community urban food production, community-building, and activating public spaces for powerful social good.
Oh my!!! Super excited about this. Food forests are my passion. I have been intentional community hopping with the intention of building a food forest. Just moved to Seattle and thought the city would be the last place I would find a food forest. Just spotted this jewel on the map. Awesome! I'll be there with my gloves on!!!
Came as the off season so many of the fruit/veggies are bare. Did pick some green beans which was great. Lots of tomatoes left. It's under construction for expansion which would be even more wonderful.
Great place to learn and get your hands dirty doing unique work. This is the Gem of the Emerald City!
My wife and I enjoy coming to the work parties (see their calendar) and helping a bit with the community garden. Friendly and non-judging people. Also nice to see the impressive park that it's a part of.
Incredible biodiversity and edibility. Open 24/7 to anyone to forage from. Encouraging to see urban land used in this manner.
Very cool place and they are working to expand it. Also there's plenty of fresh food
Neat concept. More places like this in Seattle please.
The genius of this place provides both unique foraging and brilliant inspiration.
Huge variety of plants, herbs, veggies, and fruit. Really fun to walk around with the family and munch on some raspberries! Also just around the corner from an awesome park and playground.
Amazing public food forest run by a great community of people. Thank you Beacon FF.
It's a beautiful, lush space to walk through. I've only ever been a pedestrian, a lookie-loo, and have never done any gardening here but it looks like great place to learn about gardening and contribute to great space. I suggest checking it out if you're walking around Jefferson Park.
It'd an open space so you can go whenever, but technically it's open park hours.
Beautiful place, volunteer run. I love the permiculture signs that explain what you're seeing. They have volunteer days too! So you can get your hands dirty.
Read everything, it's generally a free pick area with tons of fruit and veggies and herbs! Some plants are to attract pollenators and not for eating though. There is a set of pea patches (those are private please don't pick).
Beautiful place to walk, snack, learn, explore. The community that builds this is amazing and looking to expand what they do.
And if you're looking to help make ends meet and still have healthy food, get to know this place!! It's a massive abundance and amazing gift to the city.
Just... just go there... truuuust me.
Interesting concept, but in my opinion, the execution is uninspired and not very well maintained. It comes across more like a bramble than a forest.
Beacon Food Forest, a community permaculture project, teaching classes on site work shops, and extra space for more to come... #foodforest
Such an amazing resource for Seattle. They are doing a great job at connecting the community, providing food, and being an educational resource.
beaconfoodforest.org