Big Companies Provide Gardens for Employees

King County isn’t the only one around providing garden space for its employees. Apparently, many large businesses are also getting on board the community-garden bandwagon. Here’s an article from The Oregonian explaining what companies such as Google and Intel are doing for their employees and what benefits they reap.

Tomatoes climb toward the sky. Spinach bolts over raised-bed walls. Podding radishes, already 4 feet tall, boast peppery seed pods bound for the salad bowl.

All of it grows in an unlikely spot — at the edge of a sprawling parking lot on Intel’s Jones Farm campus.

The 32,000-square-foot employee community garden, its 81 beds planted for the first time this spring, joins a handful of plots nationwide outside such companies as PepsiCo, Toyota and Aveda. Employees plant, weed and putter before work and after, during lunch breaks and on weekends.

Think of company gardens as perks with a purpose.

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