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

• 🌱 Coming soon! And it's gonna be good! 🌻

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

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.