Beacon Food Forest

I absolutely love the Beacon Food Forest! It's the closest thing to a nature hike in the city. There's tons of produce in the public area, and we have a community garden spot there starting to grow.

Amazing place! I was needing a local food forest to visit and BFF delivers. It is incredible and full of so much food to benefit the local community. Volunteers always needed.

What a wonderful place to visit! I never knew such a concept existed, but I'm hopeful more places like this pop up in urban communities. Rebeca and Eleanor were great tour guides. They were very knowledgeable, friendly, and patient and they even gave us a ton of berries to try. Can't wait for the expansion of the food forest!

Such a beautiful little area! With lots to forage! Everything from apples, to blueberries, to cherries, and more!!!

Beautiful community driven food justice project on Beacon Hill in Seattle WA, USA. They do tours and have volunteer work parties on the 3rd Saturday of each month that anyone can join. Highly recommend!

It's a beautiful, lush space to walk through. I've only ever been a pedestrian, a lookie-loo, and have never done any gardening here but it looks like great place to learn about gardening and contribute to great space. I suggest checking it out if you're walking around Jefferson Park.

Loved it, went there under a student program for a tour and some work party volunteering. It was amazing and so cool to see what the land was capable of. Excited to see how it grows into the future. The Appalachian blackberries are amazing

Everytime I bring my kids dad to UW Medical Center we stop here. We bring our lunch and then walk around and admire people's gardens. Helps us get ideas for things to plant in ours.

This is a great place that's next to Jefferson Park. If you check out their Instagram page, they post about volunteer meet ups weekly to tend to the gardens and clean up around the area. The amazing thing about this place that there are plots where you can rent them privately to grow your own produce. There are other plots that the volunteers and community members utilize to grow various fruits and vegetables for anyone to harvest. Depending on the season, you can get apples, lavender, thyme, tomatoes, squash, etc. I highly recommend taking a stroll through this area to admire all the amazing fruits and foods that are being grown in an urban area. Sometimes they have paper bags available so that you can harvest various items from the gardens, but they aren't available all the time so be sure to bring your own reusable bag and or containers.

I've been wanting to go to the Beacon Food Forest ever since I heard about it! This garden is a lot like a community garden... but usually it is implied that those putting in the work for the garden usually get the rewards from it. Those that do are usually people from the neighborhood or volunteers. From my understanding the Beacon Food Forest is just a little bit different. Most of the produce that is grown here anyone that walks through and sees a piece of fruit or a vegetable is free to take it for themselves. With that concept in mind I have to give this community garden five stars. That doesn't mean that applies to the entire garden however. Some areas are rented out and there are signs where the rented spaces are NOT to take the produce that is being grown there. From the looks of it most people seem to be very respectful of that request. Lots of the produce that I saw that was free for the taking was very under ripe but there was indeed some there for you to take... it wasn't completely picked over! There are a number of fun little paths to do an urban hike through the garden which is lots of fun. There are fun decorations too like a whole section of painted rocks and a funky looking scarecrow. The Beacon Food Forest is actually quite large for a community garden... but during my hikes through the area I wish it was bigger... it was a refreshing hike and change of scenery. All urban centers should have these food forests throughout.

A hidden gem! Everyone near should come here to enjoy FREE fruit picking at the bottom and also ~observe~ the beautifully groomed rented garden plots. The only thing is that you pick from the correct areas and don't overpick :)

So much fun walking around showing the kids all the possibilities of food you can grow yourself! The corn was like 10ft tall! Beautiful place!

A cool, unique place that provides food free to locals and has information about permaculture. If you have an interest in local food production or just want to see what sustainable perennial agriculture looks like, head out here.

Really cool place. You can walk around the garden and pick your own veggies, but it doesn't even feel like a garden. What's growing is very unique and beautiful. Check this place out.