We are looking for excited volunteers to help us clean, repair and work in our garden! Volunteers will spend the day exploring the Danny Woo Community Garden and work together to clean up trash, weed and perform basic maintenance. All tools will be provided, just wear something that can get dirty and bring a smile! We cannot wait to work with you!
The Danny Woo Community Garden unites community members of all ages from Seattle’s Chinatown-ID through sustainable gardening, seed-to-plate garden education and community events. The garden connects immigrant elders with their roots by providing space to practice agriculture that is familiar to them from their homelands. The garden is a place where youth and elders connect to the land and to each other. This intergenerational component is a unique opportunity for immigrant elderly gardeners, most of whom do not speak English, to both teach and learn from the children and youth who are learning to garden through the Children’s Garden Educational Program. The Danny Woo Community Garden spreads knowledge and teaches visitors about the relationship between the health of our urban environment and healthy lifestyles choices for people of all ages as well as maintaining the tradition of growing food in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District.
Located adjacent to the City of Seattle’s Kobe Terrace Park, the Danny Woo Community Garden makes up part of 1.5 acre of the largest green space in Seattle’s Chinatown-ID. The steeply terraced garden is comprised of 88 plots that are tended by about 65 elderly Asian gardeners. Named after a member of the Woo family that has leased the property to InterIm CDA since 1975, the garden is uniquely tied to the history of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean and other Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants who helped make Seattle the city it is today. The garden is an important place where low-income gardeners can socialize, get exercise and raise vegetables that reflect their cultural foods of choice: bok choy, bittermelon, daikon, and watercress among others.
