The UW group Students Expressing Environmental Dedication (SEED) has transformed an unused overgrowth between Hall Health and Fluke Hall into a blossoming garden.

The garden, known as the P-Patch, is a project that includes a diversity of plants, said Ariana Taylor-Stanley, a junior at the UW who spearheaded the project.

Flowers, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, strawberries, melons, peas and lettuces are already growing in the gardens.

The community garden is divided into 10 different plots, and the “gardener” of each plot decides what to plant, and whether to eat the produce or donate to a food bank in Seattle.

SEED received donations to help the project come to fruition. They received compost from Cedar Grove, a company that picks up the UW’s recycling, as well as from another one of SEED’s own projects that creates its own compost from trash collected around campus.

“It’s kind of a flip cycle that’s coming back to us,” said Taylor-Stanley.

SEED member Kelly Miller says the project has been a blast.

“[We’ve had] garden parties with music and food. So much work has been accomplished,” she said.

The patches are truly a community project, as most gardeners are not even SEED members. The project has drawn together UW students, community members, UW staff and professors, who all have the same goal.

“Well, it’s really cool seeing lots of people come out to help,” said Taylor-Stanley. “It’s been really fun working in this small community and getting to know people.

People like Taylor-Stanley and Miller work on this project because of their love for nature and the environment.

“We live in a very progressive part of the nation,” said Miller. “What’s the point of being in such a progressive society when you yourself don’t take steps to be progressive?”

In the first couple work parties, the meadow was a “horrible monster” that seemed impossible and like an endless amount of work, Taylor-Stanley said. “Now, people who haven’t seen the meadow since come by and say, ‘Wow, it looks like a garden!’”

Over the upcoming summer months, the garden will continue to thrive, tended by those living on or around the campus.

SEED plans for the garden to be an annual project.

“I dreamed up this project and it’s really, really fun to watch it come to be,” Taylor-Stanley said.