Seattle Tilth shares a fundamental feature with your gardens: healthy roots. Both gardens and organizations need careful cultivation in order to continue growing. Seattle Tilth has come up with a brand new way for you to further support our programs and staff. Now you can direct your donations right into the programs you love by joining Seattle Tilth’s Adopt-A-Program initiative.

The way it works is simple:

1. Select which program(s) you want to support
2. Choose a monthly funding level that works with your budget
3. Provide Seattle Tilth your debit or credit card information
4. Seattle Tilth will automatically debit the amount you specify each month for 12 months. You can stop anytime and Seattle Tilth will contact you after 12 months to make sure this program still works for you.

It's that easy!

P.S. Prefer to make one annual gift as opposed to monthly deductions? No problem! We can make arrangements and welcome your contributions in any form.

Seattle Tilth has set a goal to raise $12,000 in 2006. Together we can meet our goal if just 100 people sign up to contribute $10 per month. Now all you have to do is choose which program you'd like to support. Here are the categories and some sample items that you can fund.

Download Adopt-a-Program flier with pledge form.

Adopt Tilth Roots

The Seattle Tilth staff spends nearly all of their time delivering the classes, workshops and events you love. Supporting Seattle Tilth's "roots" will help us improve our office infrastructure and free up staff to plan new programs and make existing ones even better!

$10 per month = Help us improve our databases by donating 4 hours of tech support
$20 per month = Get Tilth's word out by underwriting one issue of the newsletter's postage fees
$30 per month = Strengthen our community connections by sending 3 staff to the Tilth Producers Conference
$50 per month = Help ensure Tilth's security by underwriting liability insurance for 1 quarter
$85 per month = Subsidize the addition of online registration and donations to website

Download Adopt-a-Program flier with pledge form.

Scholarship Fund

Help seed interest in Tilth by providing community groups, public schools, and low-income individuals a chance to take part in our adult and children's gardening education opportunities.

$10 per month = Give 5 scholarships for City Chickens
$20 per month = Train a teacher or community leader to be a Comprehensive Organic Gardener
$30 per month = Give 2 low-income kids the opportunity to become Children's Garden Junior Counselors
$50 per month = Sponsor a 1-month graduate level intern to work on research and program development
$85 per month = Underwrite an “Organic Gardening: the Basics" class series for non-English speaking people

Adult Gardening Education

Tilth gives people the tools to improve the environment in a very tangible way: by teaching them how to grow beautiful organic gardens. Supporting our adult education programs will allow our staff to learn new skills, develop better classes, and offer high-quality supplies to their students.

$10 per month = Offer 1 organic gardening clinic; A water cooler and bottled water for garden volunteers for 1 year
$20 per month = Train staff in a new gardening technique; Provide training manuals for an entire class of Comprehensive Organic Gardener students
$30 per month = Underwrite the development of a new 4-hour class; build a new 3-bin composting system to demonstrate composting techniques
$50 per month = Translate English teaching materials into Spanish; Supply 1 year of plants, seeds, and other supplies for the Demonstration Gardens
$85 per month = Offer 1 year of hands-on organic gardening clinics

Download Adopt-a-Program flier with pledge form.

Teaching Peace Through Gardening

This grant-funded program teaches disadvantaged children about peace in the context of garden ecology and environmental stewardship. Adopting this program will help us enhance current programming and expand this opportunity to more children from marginalized communities.

$10 per month = Gloves for 50 kids; seeds, straw and supplies for one session
$20 per month = Training workshop for 25 adults involved in School Gardens
$30 per month = Paid teaching internship for 1 5-week session
$50 per month = 30 forks or spades designated for Teaching Peace; large popup tent for outdoor classroom area
$85 per month = Underwrite 1 5-week session of Teach Peace

Download Adopt-a-Program flier with pledge form.

Children's Gardening Education

Adopt the children's garden and you'll give the gift of gardening to kids aged 1 to 14. Seattle Tilth’s children's garden teaches kids about the earth and their environment through songs, games, stories and hands on learning.

$10 per month = Send 1 child to a week-long camp; rent a bus for 1 Earth Steward's Tour
$20 per month = 15 new story books about gardening for the Children's Garden library
$30 per month = Teach kids about composting and worms with 3 new worm bins
$50 per month = Snacks for summer classes; buy cool, new kid-sized tools
$85 per month = One month paid teaching internships; large pop-up tent for outdoor classroom area

Download Adopt-a-Program flier with pledge form.