October 28, 2025
The Snoqualmie Tribe Harvest Kitchen and Greenhouse Classroom project was recently featured in the Seattle Times, celebrating the opening of the project that provides facilities for multi-generational tribal members to gather for events and community meals, have hands-on opportunities to learn and pass down cultural practices and traditions, and protect their cultural rights.
Fora collaborated with the Snoqualmie Tribe and Boulder Associates to provide a new multi-functional outdoor space that would serve the tribe community with a new outdoor harvest kitchen, orchard, and gathering and instructional space, as well as an extension to the Snoqualmie Tribe Child Development Center with improved access from the existing facility to a greenhouse early learning classroom and harvest kitchen facilities.
Located adjacent to the renovated dining room and kitchen with a new game processing facility, the outdoor harvest kitchen encourages an indoor-outdoor flow from the building and steps out to a raised deck with seat steps that welcome views of the forest and connects to the greenhouse classroom. One can then walk over a bridge that crosses a rain garden feature, and step down into the orchard. The orchard has been planted with fruit trees and aligns with the Snoqualmie Tribe’s pursuit for food sovereignty – to be able to control how their food is produced, processed, and distributed.
From the child development center, a nature trail with cut granite steps and crushed gravel is provided, weaving through new native plantings that were selected in collaboration with the Snoqualmie Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources, providing opportunities for students to learn about plants that are native to the region.
LOCATION: Snoqualmie, WA
CLIENT: Snoqualmie Tribe
DESIGN PARTNERS: Boulder Associates, Jacobson Engineers, Swenson Say Faget, Metis Construction
PHOTOGRAPHY: Andrew Storey
