About U-Heights P-Patch

University Heights P-Patch is located in one of Seattle's most diverse urban areas, the University District. Our plots border University Way and just to the right of the entrance to the University Heights Community Center. Along with family and individual gardner's there are three elementary schools, The U District food bank, and Seattle Youth Garden Works that work plots.

The Patch's highlight is a unique rain water recycling system built by gardeners, the University of Washington Landscape Architect, Industrial Design, and Art students in 2002. These two large cisterns collect rain water that is then used by the gardener's throughout spring and early summer (or entire summers in some wet years) instead of using city water.


In 2012 the University Heights P-Patch was designated for a redesign project to accommodate the development of a public park and restoration work on the University Heights Community Center.