📍 Map Your Community is HERE!
Drop a pin anywhere in Snohomish or King County and help us identify backyard gardens, green infrastructure, and food-growing potential. Choose a Community Healthy Living (CHLI) stage and optionally share a photo or comment!
🗺️ CHLI Stage Key
Learn what each CHLI stage means as you score your community using the map.
- 🌱 Stage 1 – Planting the Seeds: Minimal or no green infrastructure. Mostly turf or paved surfaces. No signs of food-growing.
- 🌿 Stage 2 – Nurturing for Growth: Early signs of gardens or planters. A few fruit trees or raised beds may be visible.
- 🌳 Stage 3 – Nourishing a Root System: Multiple visible garden beds, compost, fruit trees, or green infrastructure working together.
- 🌼 Stage 4 – Cultivating Healthy Fruit: Mature gardens with diversity of plants and systems. A clear focus on food production and ecological health.
- 🏆 Stage 5 – Harvesting the Rewards: Fully integrated growing system with layered planting, pollinator support, composting, and educational or community use.
🔬 Research & Innovation
Data-Driven Strategies for Lasting Health Improvements
At Baton Health®, we believe research and innovation go hand-in-hand with community action. Our work is grounded in Community Healthy Living—and the science of evaluating and improving environments and health outcomes where people live, work, learn, play, and grow.
🌱 What We Do
- Identify opportunities for healthy eating and active living
- Map gaps and assets across neighborhoods, schools, worksites, and after-school programs
- Catalyze community engagement through participatory data and storytelling
- Drive systemic change via actionable policy, proven health improvement programs, environmental recommendations, and access to hands-on programming
📍 Local Stories, Real Impact
A pioneering model of sustainable agriculture and youth empowerment.
Bridging produce access and community dignity.
A hyper-local solution to food insecurity and neighborhood abundance.
Statewide guide for reducing food waste and boosting sustainability.
A digital prototype for behavior coaching and health ownership.
🌍 From Assessment to Action
We don't stop at research. We help communities:
- Strengthen leadership teams
- Conduct place-based assessments
- Launch improvement plans
- Monitor outcomes and progress
- Advocate for lasting change
Whether you're a school district, nonprofit, community health worker, or city planner—we equip you to become the credential for your own community’s health.