{"id":1272,"date":"2026-01-20T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:45:44","slug":"true-leaf-market-donation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/true-leaf-market-donation-program","title":{"rendered":"True Leaf Market Donation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Every year we start more than 14,000 seeds in our shared greenhouse. We grow all of the plants for our 20 school gardens, for our Annual Plant Sale &amp; Celebration in May, and for sharing with the community and other groups doing similar work. We also direct-plant thousands of seeds into each garden, and give away several thousand seed packets through our Free Seed Order Form. This means we grow through SO MANY SEEDS and it also means we rely on the generosity of seed companies and seed growers! <a href=\"https:\/\/trueleafmarket.com\/pages\/about-true-leaf-market\">True Leaf Market Donation Program<\/a> is a new one for us this year, but we&#8217;re excited to see what we can grow with their seeds. <br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">THANKS SO MUCH, TRUE LEAF MARKET!<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-100x77.png 100w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-150x116.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-200x155.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-450x348.png 450w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-600x464.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon-900x695.png 900w, https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seed-starting-season-is-coming-soon.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Many freshly-started flats of seeds from LCSG&#8217;s 2025 Spring growing season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we start more than 14,000 seeds in our shared greenhouse. We grow all of the plants for our 20 school gardens, for our Annual Plant Sale &amp; Celebration in May, and for sharing with the community and other<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/true-leaf-market-donation-program\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">True Leaf Market Donation Program<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}