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Get In Touch, Raise Backyard Chickens
Emily Rooney
May 10

The local food movement of the past decade has encouraged both urban and rural citizens to support their environment and communities by choosing regionally grown and raised food products.  Due to obvious space restrictions and a lack of farmers in urban settings, one might think that growing and raising food in the city would be a difficult task.  Yet increasingly people in the city...

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  • Tukwila Taking Action Day: A First Meeting of the Community Stewards Program
    Alex Wallace
    March 5

    On January 21st, citizens of Tukwila attended ‘Taking Action Day’, the first meeting of the Community Stewards Program hosted by Cascade Land Conservancy (CLC).  The workshop was comprised of two parts: (1) a series of presentations on growth management goals and how to effectively participate in the planning process; and (2) an interactive discussion with community members of Tukwila.  

    Cascade Land Conservancy’s relationship with...

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  • Building Community Support for Complete, Compact and Connected Neighborhoods
    Alex Wallace
    January 18

    Editor's Note: Alex Wallace is an on-call GIS (Geographic Information Systems) support staff member for Parametrix.  In November of 2009, he attended the APA conference in Vancouver, Washington as a Northwest Hub reporter.  Here, Alex provides his take-aways from a presentation at the conference by the Cascade Land Conservancy.

    Jeff Aken, Cascade Agenda Project Associate at the Cascade Land Conservancy, began his...

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