by Kathryn Gardow | Sep 30, 2020 | Healthy Places, Land Use Planning
We live in uncomfortable, uncertain times. As November 3rd approaches, the stress meter increases daily. With COVID-19, racial injustice tension, economic uncertainty, and the most contested election in my lifetime, the need for calm and centering is so needed. Love...
by Kathryn Gardow | Mar 31, 2019 | Land Use Planning, Local Food
“There is a shellfish farmer, sheep farmer and a vegetable farmer in a room of real estate development professionals.” It’s the start of the classic “groan” joke. And, Yes!, it really happened! The sunny last day of February was a great...
by Kathryn Gardow | Aug 22, 2017 | Healthy Food, Land Use Planning
The inner world is in our mind. Our outer or human experience is where and how we exist, interact and observe others, gather news, spend our time, and be in the world. The mind is the harbinger of mental health. Can the environment we live in impact our mental health?...
by Kathryn Gardow | Jul 31, 2017 | Land Use Planning, Sustainable Communities
I live in a great city-the Emerald City- Seattle, Washington. Living here 32 years is more than half my life. I started life as a New Englander, growing up in a Connecticut suburban town with a couple elementary school years in Buffalo, college in Schenectady,...
by Kathryn Gardow | Nov 23, 2016 | Flooding, Land Use Planning
As with most any topic, the best answer is, “It depends.” Flooding can be beneficial and also devastating. Throughout history and up to today, food is often grown on lands adjacent to the mightiest rivers, think the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Ganges, and Mississippi...
by Kathryn Gardow | Apr 30, 2016 | Agricultural Economic Development, Land Use Planning
Western Washington along the Interstate 5 corridor are some of the world’s most prolific farmlands. Puget Sound is blessed with a maritime climate with warm summers, cool winters, and mountain snowpacks that provide ample irrigation water through most of the...
