On a splendid late-summer day, GROW Board members Alice Burgess, Michael McNutt and Joyce Moty took representatives of the Grange Insurance Association, a new supporter of GROW, to visit three P-Patches near their Belltown corporate office. Grange is a century-old regional insurance company specializing in personal service for home and business products; in donating to GROW, it affirms its agriculture roots and its commitment to community. Local Grange Insurance employees sel

Fall is a great time to build healthy soil that will provide better crop yields, improve soil texture to absorb and hold water during the growing season, and discourage weeds, plant diseases and pests. You want to avoid bare soil that will be compacted by the winter rains and lose soil nutrients with runoff. Covering the soil with burlap is not soil building. Before you start, do some serious weeding in the fall. In the spring, follow up with weeding before you plant. Weeds c

Each summer, Tom Douglas Catering creates a fabulous al fresco meal in the Interbay P-Patch Plaza. The Chef in the Garden dinner and silent auction benefit GROW, and its supporters return year after year for the delicious and convivial event. For the past two years, Chef Alex Chan has created the wonderful, inventive menus that feature local meats and produce, and even delicious honey from P-Patch apiaries. (Who knew it could be such a treat??) Please plan to join us next sum