Alden Davis / Underhill Plants
Alden Davis runs a successful plant shop in downtown Olympia. I sat down to talk about Underhill Plants’ evolution throughout the course of the pandemic, and their experience operating in the city.
“I don’t know of many other places, where I could do this in the way that I am, other than Olympia”
“Visibility is really important to me, because I didn’t see people like me existing successfully when I was a kid, and I wish that I had”
“It’s really easy to talk about all the things that we don’t have and talk about all of the things that have been difficult but I I feel very optimistic about downtown”
“There are a lot of people who are really invested in this community, who are putting in their energy and doing their best to improve Olympia and downtown. We do really have a fighting chance of continuing the be the cool weird place that we are”
