Tag: alleycat acres

March 5, 2012

70 ride to Auburn farm and back for Alleycat Acres fundraiser

About 70 people rode 70 miles from Madison Valley’s MLK FAME Community Center to the Tilth Farm (United People’s Farm) in Auburn to raise funds for bike-loving urban farming collective Alleycat Acres. Yours truly was among the Streets and Beets riders, and it turned out to be a beautiful day for a long cruise through…
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tagged: alleycat acres, auburn, central co-op, central district, madison market, madison valley, seattle tilth, streets and beets 2012, united people’s farm
January 20, 2012

Get discounted Alleycat Acres ride registration for reading Seattle Bike Blog!

Regular readers may have noticed a Streets & Beets ad pop up at the top of the right-hand sidebar. That’s because we’re a partner in Alleycat Acres’ second annual fundraiser ride, which leaves Seattle March 3 for a supported 70-mile ride to Auburn and back with lunch in the middle. If you see the ad…
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tagged: alleycat acres, streets and beets 2012
January 9, 2012

Alleycat Acres birthday party to help kickstart spring bike ride

Alleycat Acres is both launching a new farm at MLK and Cherry in the Central District and launching a new bike team as the urban farming collective heads into their third year of transforming urban space. To celebrate both, they are throwing a birthday bash at LTD Art Gallery (Pike and Bellevue on Capitol Hill)…
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tagged: alleycat acres, events, streets and beets 2012
November 21, 2011

Over 50 ride in Seattle’s second Cranksgiving

Over 50 people set out to explore some of Seattle’s many interesting and unique independent food sellers for Seattle’s Second Cranksgiving. Riders were given a list of items they were required to buy and a map of places to buy them from. At the end, all the items were donated to Rainier Valley Food Bank.…
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tagged: alleycat acres, caffe delia, capitol hill, columbia city, cranksgiving 2011, DetoursUS, rainier bike law, rainier valley food bank, seattle sports co, swift industries, video
October 24, 2011

Urban Farming + Bikes – Diabetes = Team Alleycat

Everybody’s favorite bike-loving urban farming collective is launching a cycling team, and they’re looking for members. Alleycat Acres has announced Team Alleycat, a cycling team complete with training rides, a sure-to-be-rad jersey and endless high fives. The team will complete in the American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure, at least. From Alleycat Acres: For 2012…
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tagged: alleycat acres, events, team alleycat, urban agriculture
March 21, 2011

Site to connect those with garden space to those who want to grow started with a bike ride

I wrote about wepatch.org for Capitol Hill Seattle, but I was tickled to discover that the inspiration for the site came while founder Peter Rothbart was riding his bike on Capitol Hill. This is more evidence that the urban agriculture movement will be powered by bikes. Some people on the Hill have space but don’t…
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tagged: alleycat acres, capitol hill, chs, urban agriculture, we patch