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Central District nonprofit Green Plate Special is moving its garden from its current location at MLK Jr. Way and E Union Street to a new spot at 2115 25th Avenue South, at S. Walker Street.
Green Plate Special teaches middle-school youth about the importance of growing, cooking, and eating healthy food. They’ve offered classroom and after-school programs since 2011.
The nonprofit’s new garden space was funded by The Mark and Susan Torrance Foundation and Thistledown LLC provided the property. A building on the property will serve as Green Plate Special’s kitchen classroom, though they’ll need to raise capital funds to outfit the space. Other new elements will include a shed and greenhouse, bees and chickens, an outdoor wood-burning oven, covered and uncovered gathering spaces, bird baths, fruit trees, raised beds, vertical growing space, lights, and irrigation. The move is scheduled for this fall.
Green Plate Special is hosting a party on Sunday from 2pm to 5pm to celebrate its next chapter. The party is open to the pubic; learn more here.
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I will miss driving by this garden every day on my way to work, it has been such a positive addition to this corner. Any word on what will be moving into that space?