Friends of Portland Community Gardens

Mission

Friends of Portland Community Gardens supports and expands community gardening opportunities for all Portland-area residents to grow healthy food and build community.  

Bottom Line for Portland

Portland's community gardens provide everyone in our city with access and opportunities to grow food for their families and for the community. Portland Parks & Recreation operates 62 gardens spread across the city serving gardeners who speak more than 100 languages. Through the city's Produce for People program, community gardeners grow and donate over 26,000 pounds of produce to more than 30 food pantries, helping feed Portland families. 

The Friends provides the city's community gardens with financial support, tools, supplies, mason bee houses, mason bees, and plant starts, soil and fertilizer for the Produce for People program.  We have built and funded new community gardens and provide advocacy and advice to the city's many urban gardeners. 

When you donate you help gardens grow across the city. Thank you for your support.

Quote

"Frazer Community Garden's Produce for People (PFP) program provides healthy vegetables and fruit to Hollywood Senior Center's weekly food distributions to low-income seniors in North-east Portland. Essential to our program are the tools and plant starts that Friends of Portland Community Gardens  generously sends our way throughout the year.” - Jeff Wright, Frazer Community Garden

"Friends of Portland Community Garden's donations to our PFP program have reduced the financial burden on volunteers and enabled more gardeners to participate. This important component makes growing vegetables for the PFP program accessible to all." - Marianne Dickinson, Fulton Community Garden

Incentives

All $10+ donations will receive a Friends of Portland Community Gardens “Let’s Get Dirty”  bumper sticker. 

Donations of $25 or more will receive a one-year membership to the Friends of Portland Community Gardens, a “Let’s Get Dirty” bumper sticker and coupons for 15% off on a one-time purchase at Portland Nursery and Concentrates, Inc. 

Donations of $300 or more will receive a three-year membership Friends of Portland Community Gardens, receive a Mason Bee house, which includes cocoons, reusable cocoon nesting trays, an intro class on Mason Bees and a cocoon harvesting workshop.  

On Giving Tuesday, December 2, the first and fifth donors will receive a $50 gift certificate to Portland Nursery.

On December 29 – Big Gardening Day featuring Portland Nursery – the first and last donors will receive $50 gift certificate to Portland Nursery.

Partner(s)

Portland Nursery - Portland Nursery has everything you'll need to make your garden and home your favorite destination

Concentrates, Inc. – Organic Agricultural Professionals since 1938, specializing in organic soil amendments, fertilizers, feeds, minerals, and salts.