Home Gardens Joy, food, community, health Families in the Home Gardens program describe the benefits of gardening: “Having a garden has improved the diet of myself and everybody I’ve shared with. I waste less food, too, because I just pick what I want to eat, [click here to read more and see photos] when I want to eat […]
Home Gardens Growing Gardens and Home Gardens would like to thank all of our Dawn of the Bed teams, captains, supports, crew leaders, and participants for this years fall dig-in a success! Over the winter these gardens will remain largely dormant, with the exception of the garlic and cover crop. Next spring we will […]
Home Gardens Every year in the Spring and Fall, we train a cohort of “Crew Leader” volunteers who then lead their own groups of volunteers to build backyard gardens during our installation days. This model allows Growing Gardens to build between 6-10 gardens each weekend for families entering the Home Gardens program. This fall we trained […]
Home Gardens Home Gardens is now recruiting Crew Leaders receive garden-building and leadership training and lead small groups of volunteers to build gardens at homes with participants in our Home Gardens program. Required: 6 hour training Saturday October 14, lead installations (5 hours each) on 10/21 & 10/28. Space is limited. For more information or to sign up […]
Home Gardens Every year in the Spring and Fall, we train a cohort of “Crew Leader” volunteers who then lead their own groups of volunteers to build backyard gardens during our installation days. This model allows Growing Gardens to build between 6-10 gardens each weekend for families entering the Home Gardens program. This fall we trained […]
Home Gardens This month Growing Gardens has partnered up with OHSU’s Family Medicine to start a garden at the Richmond clinic site. The garden is small, but is growing crops that can be shared with many: tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, kale, carrots, beets, chard, and more. A dedicated group of the clinic’s patients and staff have […]
Home Gardens Home gardens are THRIVING! We recently visited one of the gardeners that joined the program this spring and witnessed an amazing transformation of her yard! Including this incredible vertical garden made from soda bottles. Here is a photo of the garden during the installation this spring. And here is the same garden a […]
Home Gardens Home Gardens has just wrapped up a whirlwind garden-building season this spring. The 2017 cohort of gardeners has 52 families (18 primarly English-speaking and 34 primarily Spanish-speaking). Over 100 volunteers helped build backyard gardens over the course of 3 weekends in April. 9 teams of families, friends and coworkers collectively raised $8,556 for […]
Home Gardens We love our Crew Leaders! Last weekend 10 amazing and dedicated volunteers joined the Home Gardens team for a full-day training in our garden building methods and volunteer management. We built gardens for two new families in the Home Gardens program and in the next two weekends these Crew Leaders will help build […]
Home Gardens This month the Home Gardens team has been working hard to get ready for beginning gardening classes and garden building. At our monthly team meeting (pictured above) we reviewed and updated our curriculum to emphasize hands-on learning in the garden. We are working closely with the Youth Grow team to prepare garden beds […]
Home Gardens The Home Gardens team is busy getting ready for spring! Our Community Organizers are conducting initial site visit consultations with families to map out their gardens and collect soil samples to test for lead contamination. Most lead contamination occurs within 3 feet of the house as a result of lead paint that was […]
Home Gardens “I sometimes have a difficult time getting around, when I see my beautiful garden growing I somehow get some extra strength to go out and enjoy all the vegetables”- 2nd year Home Gardener Winter is a great time for reflecting, learning from the past, and planning for spring. The Home Gardens team is […]
From November 2nd to December 31st you can make a donation to Growing Gardens thru the Willamette Week Give!Guide simply by clicking on the heart – thank you!
Please join us at 6 pm on September 27th at the Growing Gardens office (2203 NE Oregon) to learn more about lead and how to reduce risk. Learn the scientific facts to help you in conversations about lead safety in school gardens. We have invited Molly Kile, Associate Professor of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU to give a short […]
Last week Portland Public Schools issued guidance encouraging the community not to eat produce from school gardens. The guidance was based on the fact that many of our gardens have been irrigated with water testing above federal drinking water standards. On Friday, August 26th, an updated was issued by PPS and the Oregon Healthy Authority […]
