We are sharing information about the Highline School District’s proposed plans for the Shark Garden site so our community can better understand what is being considered. There are plans to use our garden space for parking and a small field for a new school construction project. This summary highlights key elements of the proposal and important considerations for the future of this space. Click the buttons below to learn more about the proposed plans or to see our impact statistics from the last five years. The files will download for you. We will also add updates at the bottom of this page. We are planning on closing in spring of 2027.
October 2026 Update
This is our final season in the garden. We will be closing next spring. The current plan for the garden is to try to save as many of the educational features of our garden as possible and to redistribute our resources to other area nonprofits, school gardens, food bank gardens, and teaching gardens. At this time, we plan to move the Mediterranean Foods Garden, the Tropical Foods Garden, and parts of our native plant and pollinator plant collections over to the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden in the spring of 2027. Over the winter, we will be spending time getting the new location ready with irrigation work and site prep. In early spring the various recipient gardens for our other plants and features will start to remove them. After all the gardens get what they want, we will have a spring plant sale with remaining plants and tools etc. Finally, once funding kicks in in the spring, we start to move the display gardens over to SeaTac. If you have a teaching garden/ program that would like some of our plants or resources, contact us at info@sharkgarden.org. We want to spread our resources, so that the community can continue to benefit from our work.
Some of our programming will also relocate to the garden in SeaTac. We don’t know yet how much of it. Our Director, Taryn, has been hired by the botanical garden there to project manage the move and to set up programming over there.
We are fundraising now to help pay for some of the move since we hope to have some of the larger trees etc. moved by professionals. Our holiday sale on October 24th from noon til 3 pm is a great way to support us. There will also likely be volunteer work parties in the spring to start potting up smaller plants to move and we are collecting larger plastic pots now for the move. Pots can be dropped off at West Seattle Nursery for us or send us and email to get directions for dropping them off in a secure area at the garden. (info@sharkgarden.org)
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