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2012 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Sustainability

Growing Flowers and Vegetables Together!

Student(s):

Chi Ho (Kifer) Yang

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Katie Pencke

Partner(s):

  • Seattle Tilth

Faculty advisor(s):

Soo-Hyung Kim, Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington

During my project, I assisted Seattle Tilth with my research on different filtration methods and farming practices to understand strategies to put agriculture and horticulture together.  Therefore, we worked to restore the unmanaged park at Rainier Beach’s Wetland Farm called the Atlantic Nursery Park. We found that tilling and crop rotation is more environmental friendly. Then later I consolidate recommendations and created a landscape map that is suitable for both flowers and food crops for Seattle Tilth.