Nathan Hale High School Horticulture and Urban Farm

06/17/2026

From our friends at Thornton Creek Alliance:

Welcome to Thornton Creek AllianceTogether we can better the watershed through education, collaboration, and community involvement Learn More Welcome to Thornton Creek AllianceOur Goal: Encouraging individuals, groups, schools, businesses, and government to work together to restore Seattle’s creek...

06/13/2026

We celebrated a major expansion of Nathan Hale Urban Farm last evening. Our site is now accessible directly from 31st Ave and we have increased the area where we can grow our plants. The expansion frames a newly planted orchard as well, strengthening our partnership with the culinary arts program.

We love the new space! Our gratitude to UW neighborhood design build studio and its students and teachers -- and to the donors who made this gorgeous and functional space possible.

05/04/2026

Our Annual Spring Plant Sale starts Friday afternoon with our Friends of the Farm Early Bird Sale and Fundraiser. Canapes by our culinary students, lots of garden related items by our business students, and of course first choice at all of our veggies and ornamentals. It continues on Saturday from 10 to 1. Get your tickets for Friday at https://nathanhaleurbanfarm.square.site/

04/25/2026

It’s almost time for the Hale Horticulture Spring Plant Sale! Join us at the Nathan Hale Greenhouse May 8th & 9th. See the care our students have put into growing the plants this year and get your garden off to a fabulous start.

Friday May 8th: Our annual “Friends of the Farm” evening:
4:30 – 7:00pm. Tickets available online now at
https://nathanhaleurbanfarm.square.site/ Get first access to our fuchsia baskets, petunia baskets, tomatoes, peppers and so much more. Enjoy appetizers provided by our Hale Culinary classes and be first to see all of the garden inspired items produced by Hale Business Enterprises and the Ceramics Department.


Saturday May 9th - Open to the public - 10 am to 1 pm.
Plant sale; Bake Sale; Garden inspired items produced by Hale Business Enterprises and the Ceramics Department

04/15/2026

This is the fourth time we have had the honor of working with the UW Neighborhood Design Build Studio (a program of the UW Department of Architecture). Yesterday the students presented us with a proposed model of a new entrance to our site that would integrate our planned orchard to the west of our currently fenced site with the rest of our existing space. Some elements will include a "farm stand," with flexible uses for student work, arches that can be tented for expansion of our growing areas, level walkways from 31st street to our site, and many more features that we are working to finalize right now with the architecture students and Professor Jake LaBarre. This is known as Phase I of this expansion project.

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

From our friends at Thornton Creek Alliance:

01/13/2026

From our friends at Thornton Creek Alliance:

12/16/2025

From our friends at Thornton Creek Alliance:

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Join us this Wednesday, Dec. 17, from 7-9pm via Zoom.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1308068214342911/

Learn about the legal appeal of Seattle's new Comprehensive Plan, which is potentially environmentally harmful and could add more risk for our endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.

More background info here: https://www.orcaappeal.org/ and at https://www.facebook.com/OrcaNexus

11/15/2025

Our students have been hard at work and it’s time to celebrate with our Winter Open House. Five varieties of student-grown poinsettias are available to order online and pick up Sunday, November 23rd. We often sell out, so reserve yours now so you won't be disappointed at the open house.

Order at https://nathanhaleurbanfarm.square.site

We will also sell student-made succulent gardens, assorted houseplants, and more things harvested from the garden in person at the open house.

In addition, Hale 's business class will be selling items inspired by our summer garden to bring the joy of gardening indoors -- snacking seeds, hot sauces, fruit preserves, soaps, lotions, hot chocolate, and candles -- all from student entrepreneurship product lines.

And finally, our Baking and Pastry class students will be selling an assortment of fresh made pastries and sweets, as well as offering some complimentary treats to go with apple cider.

Looking for an experience? Come join our Build a Wreath workshop, led by expert student and volunteer wreath makers.
Class times: 11:00am & 12:00pm
Please purchase and book in advance to reserve your wreath making spot at:
https://nathanhaleurbanfarm.square.site