Comments on: Growing Healthy Food and People Through City Community Gardens in Olympia, Washington http://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-non-profit/growing-healthy-food-and-people-through-city-community-gardens-in-olympia-washington/ Branding for Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Non-Profits, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Planning Companies Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:19:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kennith George http://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-non-profit/growing-healthy-food-and-people-through-city-community-gardens-in-olympia-washington/comment-page-1/#comment-23239 Kennith George Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:55:48 +0000 http://globalsiteplans.blogs.patsoffice.com/?p=9297#comment-23239 This is one of the more interesting proactive approaches by City government to create more community gardens I’ve seen. More often than not, community gardens are created out of a community reaction to unusable space. But here, the City of Olympia is doing a greater part to encourage them.

Similarly, Tacoma and Pierce County partnered to create the ACHIEVE coalition which also advocates for and fosters more community gardens throughout the City and Pierce County. The coalition now partners with over a dozen government agencies, communities and neighborhood businesses. They launched a great website called GrowLocalTacoma.com that provides residents an easy way to learn about, support through giving and act by joining in the program. But Tacoma still takes more of an information and assistance approach; whereas Olympia provides the plots for residents to start their own community gardens. It’s awesome to see more Cities taking that initiative.

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