Employees at Tech Companies Have Unique Approach to Gardening

Last month the Oregonian published an article about the new crop of gardens popping up alongside big companies. Employees happily tend to the plants during their lunch breaks and provide local food banks with a new supplier of fresh produce.

The News Tribune took a closer look at some of the same corporate farms to find that those tending to them are no ordinary gardeners. The employees at tech company Intel take a different approach to cultivating fruits and veggies. Though they have no professional gardening experience, participating employees did quite a bit of research and experimentation to make the most of their plots, which resulted in a hearty early harvest.

Here are the details from the Tribune on the employees’ techniques and the state of their garden:

Corporate culture has met agriculture at Intel, and the broccoli is amazing.

Employees at the DuPont offices have turned a rocky lot next to the streamlined building into a geek Eden of raised beds, compost heaps and generosity.

They are surprising food banks in Pierce and Thurston counties with deliveries of lettuce, spinach, peas, broccoli and bok choy in a season when many home gardeners are just getting their recently waterlogged soil going.

These techies do not approach gardening the way mere mortals might.

They’ve got next to no experience. They don’t trust luck. They work as teams and research strategies.

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