As a non-profit organization we donate all proceeds to educational and horticultural projects or to community gardens.

The 2010 West Seattle Garden Tour Beneficiaries are:

Highland Park Elementary School

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Highland Park serves a very ethnically diverse population with Hispanic and Asian students being the highest numbers. Many students receive special services. Special Education is offered to students with identified disabilities, and bilingual services are offered to students who have limited fluency in English. Approximately 75% of our students receive either free or reduced lunch.

Funding will support three different programs at the school: Art in Our Garden, Gardens In-between, and Planting, Singing and Growing ourselves, which includes items for the school library.

Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center: Rain Garden Wetlands

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The Duwamish Tribe is the host tribe for Seattle, the area’s only indigenous tribe. Many of the 569 enrolled members still live on Duwamish aboriginal territory, which includes Seattle, Burien, Tukwila, Renton, and Redmond.

The rain garden at the Longhouse serves to filter water coming off the roof before it goes into the storm water system. The plan is to construct a wetland at the end of the system to further filter the water. The wetlands would also serve as an educational aid when talking about natural systems and the way this area used to be.

South Seattle Community College Arboretum

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The Arboretum is an important part of the SSCC Landscape Horticulture Program. As part of their studies, students designed and built the Arboretum. It is used as a laboratory for plant identification, arboriculture, irrigation, landscape maintenance and landscape construction courses. The Arboretum is also used as an outdoor classroom by professional horticulturists and hobby gardeners. Many of the plants on the Washington Certified Nursery Professional exam can be found in the SSCC Arboretum.

The 6-acre site is located at the north end of campus on a bluff over looking the City of Seattle and Elliott Bay and is available to serve the entire community as an aesthetic educational retreat from the urban environment.

Seattle Tilth

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Seattle Tilth is a nationally recognized non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and educating people to garden organically and conserve natural resources.

Seattle Tilth is actively engaged in outreach in south Seattle to assess community priorities and develop additional programming related to organic food gardening that meets the needs of diverse and low-income area residents.

ArtsWest: Theater Education Program

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The mission of ArtsWest is to produce artistic events so compelling that they require conversation, improve the imagination, and promote cultural vibrancy as a core value for the communities of West Seattle.

The Theater Education Program includes classes in the arts and humanities combined with rehearsals, culminating in a public production of a major musical, a series of one acts, or a classic American play.

Special Donation
	The WSGT would like to extend a special Thank you to Michael Oxman, West Seattle Arborist and Professional Tree Surgeon, for his donation of a 5' tall Fraser Fir tree. This tree will grow to about 190' tall in about 190 years. He will deliver the potted tree & plant it in the yard of the chosen beneficiary. Visit his website at www.treedr.com to learn more.