Location: Danny Woo Community Garden, 620 S. Main Street, Seattle, WA 98104
Spend the afternoon reconnecting with the land, while helping to preserve a historic urban growing space, with a Legacy Project at the Danny Woo Community Garden. This 1.5 acre edible community garden that is managed by InterIm CDA is located in the heart of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District (CID) and has been a source of food security and cultural preservation for low income, elderly Asian-immigrants living in the area for over 40 years. More recently, the Danny Woo Community Garden became home to a chicken coop and a children’s growing space to engage the wider community and build an intergenerational connection between youth and seniors in the neighborhood.
This Legacy Project is an opportunity to get your hands dirty and participate in the rich history of the garden by providing maintenance and restoration support. After learning about the garden’s legacy of social justice, environmental stewardship, and cultural resiliency, we’ll jump into the garden to help weed, mulch, and provide small repairs to fences and pathways. We’ll end our project just in time for you to refuel at any of the numerous eateries that fill the blocks of the CID.
HOW TO PREPARE
Please wear clothes appropriate for doing physical labor in a garden. There are gender neutral restrooms and storage lockers located in the InterIm CDA office, one block from the garden. Please bring your own water and snacks to sustain yourself. This project will occur rain or shine.
HOW TO GET THERE
The garden is located at 620 S. Main St., Seattle, WA 98104, at the corner of S. Main St. and Maynard Ave. S. There is hourly paid street parking along S. Main St. Accessible bus lines include: 14, 7, 36, 70, 49. Broadway Streetcar, and Link LightRail via the International District Bus Tunnel.
Accessibility Note: As a terraced garden there are numerous staircases, narrow and uneven pathways, and limited covered areas for inclement weather. Please contact us at info@interimicda.org with specific accessibility requests to determine whether a visit to the garden will meet your needs.
Join us for a book launch and presentation for the book Emerge: A Strategic Leadership Model for The Sustainable Building Community
Author Kathleen O’Brien brings 30-plus years as an award-winning educator, writer, strategic planner, and project consultant in the sustainable building field to her work as Founder of the EMERGE Leadership Project. Through this project, O’Brien has been providing leadership development support including training, mentoring, and tools to green building professionals and advocates with the ultimate goal of making this world a better place for all living species, now and into the future. Members of the sustainable building community who have participated in EMERGE programs have successfully launched policy initiatives, commercial enterprises, professional career transitions, community projects and more. The sustainability coordinator of one leading design firm has called EMERGE training “life-altering.” Now, O’Brien shares the strategic leadership model that is at the core of EMERGE programs, along with case studies, practical guidance, a personal leadership development template, and bonus exercises to assist you on your personal leadership journey.
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The session will be led by Joe Zazzera and Denny Royal. Both hold MS degrees in Biomimicry and are Certified Biomimicry Professionals. Joe and Denny are key influencers in their disciplines and work to bring Biomimicry to those disciplines and beyond.
