Friends of Portland Community Gardens

Friends of Portland Community Gardens The Friends of Portland Community Gardens is a nonprofit food garden advocacy organization in Portland, Oregon, founded in 1985.
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Our mission is to protect and expand the community gardening opportunities for the people of Portland.

06/05/2026

Happy Bees at Brentwood South Community Garden!

HERE'S THE DIRT ON THE UPCOMING WORK PARTIES: OREGON FOOD BANK EASTSIDE LEARNING GARDEN Saturday, June 14/10 am - noon 7...
06/04/2026

HERE'S THE DIRT ON THE UPCOMING WORK PARTIES:

OREGON FOOD BANK EASTSIDE LEARNING GARDEN
Saturday, June 14/10 am - noon
7900 NE 33rd Drive (next to the Oregon Food Bank Headquarters & Statewide Warehouse)
Portland, OR 97211

Oregon Food Bank’s Learning Garden is an organized space where volunteers work together to grow produce for the food bank, and share in the harvest. Our work party will cultivate and harvest both familiar produce and culturally specific crops that are often more challenging to find in grocery stores. From shed organization to tool cleaning, our visit will also reveal helpful examples of how to organize and manage our community gardens.

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MULTNOMAH COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS’ ASSOCIATION DEMONSTRATION GARDEN
Saturday, July 25/10 am - noon
SE 57th & Duke Street (Parking & Directions are listed in this link)

Nestled within the historic Green Thumb Orchard space in Southeast Portland, the Demonstration Garden is an educational hub where Master Gardeners showcase their expertise in sustainable gardening and garden management. Our work party will get dirty, assisting the Master Gardeners with a garden improvement project, and touring the garden while learning helpful gardening skills.

After the tour, everyone is invited to visit the Produce for People (PFP) program at the neighboring Brentwood South Community Garden. This volunteer PFP program is one of the largest of its kind in Portland, with both raised beds and in-ground plots. Gardeners work year-round and hold two work parties each week.

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If you’d like to attend, please RSVP by email to [email protected] with the subject line “Let’s Get Dirty Work Party”. Space is limited, so we encourage you to respond soon.

Thank you for the wonderful vegetable starts!In addition to all of the vegetable starts that the Friends of Portland Com...
06/03/2026

Thank you for the wonderful vegetable starts!

In addition to all of the vegetable starts that the Friends of Portland Community Gardens grew over the last few months for the PFP Summer Distribution, the Portland Parks & Recreation's Community Gardens received donations of starts from the following groups:
Westwind Gardens
Sonie's Tantalizing Tomatoes
Kathy Katz
Portland Public Schools Community Transition Program
These starts have filled PFP beds and will produce a lot of tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other summer vegetables for Portland's food pantries!

05/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who supports Portland Parks & Recreation's Produce for People (PFP) program!
At the recent PFP Summer Starts Distribution, PFP volunteers from 35 Community Gardens received summer vegetable starts to fill their PFP plots. This means lots of healthy vegetables will be grown for donating to local food pantries!
Thank you to the Friends of Portland Community Gardens and Portland Parks & Recreation's Community Gardens Department for holding this event!

Sellwood Community Garden Open House!Come explore a wonderful garden!July 18, 2026, from 10:00 AM-3:00 PMAddress: 8315 S...
05/25/2026

Sellwood Community Garden Open House!
Come explore a wonderful garden!

July 18, 2026, from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
Address: 8315 SE 21st Avenue, Portland, OR

Thank you to all of the Produce for People (PFP) coordinators and volunteers! We value your work to grow food for local ...
05/21/2026

Thank you to all of the Produce for People (PFP) coordinators and volunteers! We value your work to grow food for local food pantries!

Last Saturday, the Friends of Portland Community Gardens and the Portland Parks & Recreation's Community Gardens Department held a PFP Summer Starts Distribution. At this event, seeds, bonemeal, and thousands of summer vegetable starts were given to the PFP groups to fill their beds with summer vegetables.

Thank you to the following for donating or providing discounts on vegetable starts and supplies for our Produce for People programs:
Portland Nursery
Westwind Growing Gardens
Sonie's Tantalizing Tomatoes
Kathy Katz
Concentrates
The Richard Lancaster Family
SeedMoney Donors

Thank you to the Multnomah County Master Gardener Association for coming to our event and providing gardening information to our PFP volunteers.

Also, a HUGE Thanks to the PP&R’s Horticulture Department for lending us space in their greenhouse to grow starts for PFP!They also provided soil and took care of our veggie babies over the weekends!

Lastly, Thank You to all of the PFP volunteers who helped out at this event, and for everyone who has been helping to grow starts in the greenhouse. We literally could not do this without you!

Three times a year, we hold these events to help Portland's PFP groups grow more vegetables for local food pantries.

Learn how to garden for pollinators!The Multnomah County Master Gardener Association is holding FREE Community Classes L...
05/19/2026

Learn how to garden for pollinators!
The Multnomah County Master Gardener Association is holding FREE Community Classes Learn In-the-Garden: Gardening for Pollinators
In this Learn-in-the-Garden class, you will learn:
• to identify types of pollinators
• 10 plants that will attract native bees
• how to design a pollinator garden

When: Sunday, April 26, 2026
Time: drop in anytime from 10:00 am to 1:00pm
Where: SE 57th and Duke St.

05/14/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲!

In early February, the Portland Parks & Recreation's Community Gardens Department arranged for the Friends of Portland Community Gardens (Friends) to grow starts in the Horticulture greenhouse. This was a wonderful gift for the Produce for People (PFP) program!

During the next 3 months, a volunteer team composed of Friends, PFP volunteers, and community gardeners grew starts to give to all of Portland's PFP gardens.

Rain or shine, our group met twice a week to plant, transplant and water our starts. We learned a lot about growing vegetables from seeds, enjoyed each other's company and LOVED the experience!

We could not have done all of this without the help of the following volunteers:
Cheryl Baxla, Tess Beistel, Melanie Chu, Marianne Dickinson, Lucinda Eshleman, Ellen Gehringer, Hannah Hudson, Irma Kochlavashvili, Judy Koonce, Katherine Salzmann, Carol Tompkins and Jeff Wright.

Special thanks to Shelley Grosjean, who taught us how to sow seeds properly and tend to our starts!

Lastly, thank you to the Portland Parks & Recreation's Horticulture Department for lending us space in your wonderful greenhouse.

This summer, hundreds of Portland families experiencing food insecurity will receive lots of fresh produce!

Thank you, Portland Nursery for helping Friends grow vegetable starts for Portland’s Produce for People program!We have ...
05/08/2026

Thank you, Portland Nursery for helping Friends grow vegetable starts for Portland’s Produce for People program!

We have been growing starts in the Portland Parks & Recreation Horticulture Department’s greenhouse since early February. At every step of the way, Portland Nursery has been a wonderful support for the Produce for People (PFP) programs.

Starting with seeds donated by Portland Nursery, our seedlings spend time on a large heating mat donated by Portland Nursery. With this warm start, our seeds sprout and grow until they are ready to transplant into larger pots. As our starts grow, they are nourished by liquid fertilizer donated by Portland Nursery.

Last spring, with the support of Portland Nursery, we grew over 1,500 pots of early spring vegetables to give out to all of Portland’s PFP groups. Currently, we are growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and herbs for our upcoming PFP Summer Starts Distribution.

Portland Nursery has been a wonderful partner for the Friends of Portland Community Gardens and our PFP programs. With their support, more families in Portland facing food insecurity will receive more fresh vegetables at their local food pantries!

Thank you, Portland Nursery!

This week, we moved the vegetable starts that we are growing for Portland Parks & Recreation's Produce for People (PFP) ...
05/07/2026

This week, we moved the vegetable starts that we are growing for Portland Parks & Recreation's Produce for People (PFP) programs outside to harden off.

Since February, the Friends of Portland Community Gardens and PFP volunteers have been growing starts in a greenhouse space loaned to us by the Portland Parks & Recreation's Horticulture Department.

Our warm-weather veggies are now hardening off and looking wonderful. We will be having our Summer PFP Starts Distribution soon!

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