Grow Portland

Mission

🌷🍒 Grow Portland supports schools and communities by facilitating hands-on garden experiences that foster connections to food, nature and each other.

Bottom Line for Portland

🌿 🍎 Founded in 2010, Grow Portland works to increase garden access and equitable outdoor education opportunities for students across Portland. We steward gardens and outdoor spaces while providing environmental education, centered on people of color, people who live at or below the poverty line, English as a second language learners, and students with disabilities. Grow Portland is partnered with 15 public schools, serving over 6,300 students, with monthly hands-on, seasonally themed, curriculum aligned lessons in their school garden. We prioritize long-term relationships with schools, many for 10 years or more! We know from our annual student surveys that this translates into lifelong healthy eating habits and an improved relationship with nature and the outdoors. Grow Portland also donates over 500lbs of fresh garden grown produce each year to local school food pantries. With increasing food costs and decreased job security, we know many families are impacted. Grow Portland helps get fresh no-cost food directly to the people who need it!

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🌱 🍁 "Gardens are important to our community by providing fresh fruit, vegetables, and other produce. They also help people get outside and learn responsibility by taking care of the plants.” - 5th grader

🌸 🦋 “I absolutely love the community building aspect of garden class. It’s a space where everyone belongs just as they are, everyone is invited into the care of the garden, and everyone benefits from the garden. Love love love it.” - Kindergarten teacher

🌳☀️ “In the garden, I feel free, ALIVE, and healthy!” - 4th grader

Incentives

🌱 Dove Vivi is giving a half pizza to anyone who donates $100 or more to Grow Portland throughout the entire campaign

🐦 The first 6 people to donate $100+ to Grow Portland will receive a $25 gift card to Dragonfly Coffee House (CLAIMED!)

🍁 The first 8 donors over $100 on Nov 11th (Big Garden Day) will receive a $25 gift card to Portland Nursery (CLAIMED!)

🍒 The first person to donate $300+ on Nov 19th (Big Drinks Day) will receive a $100 Heavenly Creatures gift card (CLAIMED!)

🌺 The first two people to donate $300+ during Education Week (Nov 16-22) will win either a Personal Stylist Appointment or a Private Shopping Party from Garnish Apparel (both include a $100 store credit!)

• 🌿 The first 4 people to donate $100 or more on Dec 2nd will receive a $25 gift card to one of Sesame Collective’s restaurants: Dolly Olive, Mediterranean Exploration Co., Shalom Y’all or Yalla

🌳  The first person to donate $350+ to Grow Portland on Dec 10th (Big Dinner Cruise Day) will win a $100 gift card to Campana

🐝 The first two people to donate over $100 on Dec 17th will receive a $25 gift card from Level Brewery

🌽 The first person to donate $500+ to Grow Portland on Dec 29th (Big E-Bike Day) will win a 10 class pack (worth $290) to Studio 45

🍍 The first 2 people to donate $500 and up on December 30th will receive a $100 gift card from Andina Restaurant 

Partner(s)

Andina Restaurant: a taste of Peru in the pacific northwest

Campana serves old world and new world Italian fare with hand-made pasta, risotto, fish and meat, house-made desserts, an all Italian wine list, and both classic and contemporary cocktails.

Dove Vivi serving cornmeal crust pizza with all the appropriate accompaniments since 2007

Dragonfly Coffee House: the cozy community coffee house you thought was long gone; independently owned and operated.

Garnish Apparel features an in-house line of limited edition pieces made right here in Portland, Oregon as well as Personal Stylist Appointments and Private Shopping Parties.

Heavenly Creatures wine bar and bottle shop in NE Portland

Level Brewery, brewing subtle, balanced, and traditional beers, with a healthy mix of New World ales and lagers thrown in

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

Sesame Collective is a restaurant group that offers Mediterranean-inspired fare with a distinctive Pacific Northwest twist

Studio 45 is a PNW-based pilates studio. Classes are challenging; instructors and members are welcoming, and you’ll see a transformation in your body in as little as 5 classes.