Growing Gardens

At Growing Gardens resilience isn't individual, it's collective. This year, it looked like families growing food through hardship, students finding joy in school gardens and adults in correctional facilities discovering purpose through the soil. Together, we're not just growing food, we are transforming the system that determines who has access to it. 

 We included a new program, Nutrition Inside, into our Lettuce Grow program where we have recovered and delivered over 70,000 pounds of fresh food to Oregon Correctional Facilities. 

 Our Greenhouse project kept on growing this year. We installed the 1st greenhouse at OSP (Oregon State Penitentiary). In addition build 5 greenhouses that are located in a decentralized model spread across the city to increase food access and sovereignty. 

 Our amazing educators in our Youth Grow program developed and delivered over 2000 fresh cafetaria tastings with our 10 school partners. 

 The Home Gardens program responded quickly and respectfully with our community to offer more fresh food access through a year-end fill your party event with local farmers.