Produce Thieves Raid Seattle Charity Gardens
October 20, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
People tending neighborhood gardens in Seattle, known as “P-Patches,” are frustrated with thieves stealing ripe produce and tools, reports The Seattle Times.
Gardeners of the more than 50 P-Patches say that thieves are actually taking food from needy people, since the gardens donate 10 tons of produce to food banks every year. Gardeners are especially distressed to hear reports of middle-class people pilfering from the P-Patches.
“People have seen a lady in a well-kept Mercedes drive up, get out with her shopping bags and go out into the gardens and just start filling them up,” said Ray Schutte, the president of the P-Patch Trust.
