Growing Together: Touring Tacoma's Agricultural Heritage 

Hop on the bus and tour a diverse array of Tacoma’s amazing community gardens! Pierce County has a rich agricultural heritage shaped by many different communities over the decades, and together we will tour five different examples of community gardens, each a different representation of the importance of place, food, and family.

Many of our gardens are brought to life by immigrant and refugee gardeners who have planted heirloom seeds from their families in order to keep the feeling of 'home' alive in a new place.  We are therefore proud to include this tour as a National Immigrant and Refugee Welcoming Week activity with the City of Tacoma, the Tacoma Community House, and other community partners.

You'll have a chance to meet the gardeners, ask them questions, and even get your hands a little dirty! You will see a wide variety of gardens and ways of growing food and medicine, including Filipino, Mexican, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Moldovan gardening traditions. Your ticket includes a multicultural lunch featuring many of the growing traditions you will have seen on the tour, and we are especially excited that VT Radio Universal will be hosting multilingual karaoke during lunch! 

All proceeds from ticket sales directly support community gardens in low-income neighborhoods throughout the County. 

The tour will be offered in Spanish, Vietnamese, Khmer, Ukrainian, and English.