We grow food, skills and a resilient community. We seek to do this by providing a place where community members come together to grow with one another through the sharing of urban homesteading skills, gardening, cooking and preserving skills and personal growth through the arts. In this way, individuals become more self-reliant while also building a network of support with neighbors, within neighborhoods and throughout the community. Started in 2009, the Center developed out of community-led design charettes and is maintained by an all-volunteer board of directors.
The Chuckanut Center hosts community-based instructors to teach skill-sharing classes that promote community resilience. We maintain a large garden and orchard to teach food-growing skills. We steward a historic house and manage the parkland where our work takes place. We grow food in our Victory Garden to distribute to neighbors in need, through the food bank and community meal kitchens.
