Farm My Yard

12/31/2025

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

Oregon Food Bank’s Learning Garden, Multnomah County Master Gardener Association, and the Portland Fruit Tree Project are a few of the Friends’ partners who bring insight and networking opportunities to our gardeners. Your Give!Guide support for Friends allows us to build alliances with other local organizations and businesses at the forefront of the garden to table movement. (or “of the local agriculture movement”)

Whether it’s providing shared resources (tools), diverse knowledge (organic methods or pest control), financial relief (shared costs) or the capacity to tackle bigger issues, the Friends’ partners make our gardens more successful, sustainable and impactful for health and community building. (this is a variation of an AI generated statement).

Thank you to organizations like the Oregon Food Bank’s Learning Garden, Multnomah County Master Gardeners Association, and the Portland Fruit Tree Project for amplifying the impact and strength of community gardens in Portland.

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲:
https://giveguide.org/nonprofits/friends-of-portland-community-gardens

12/24/2025

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12/06/2025

Here we go! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRIXxIHkdJC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

12/05/2025

Take your urban farming seriously, and you'll reap the harvest.

Tender, sweet chicories, and sparkling mustards for our fall and winter salads.  Delicate, gourmet salad greens like máche, miner’s lettuce and wild violets pop at the edges of every bed, and we’ll be tossing calendula petals, blue stars of borage, and purple mustard blossoms in the salads til...

11/30/2025

Great day to be in the garden!

Work/learn party, tour.  Medicinal herb harvest and processing, garlic planting, tasting.  Harvest some treats to take home.   Greens, herbs, edible flowers.  Get inspired for your own garden.

11/26/2025

Fall land care sustains your garden for next year's food security.

Thinking of planting trees or other perennials?  Now is the best time.  Transplant shock is lessened by cooler temperatures and moist soil.  Top growth is slow to nil, so plants will have all winter to grow new roots.  And you won’t have to water until late spring!  

11/20/2025

Hey Friends,
I wanted to let you know about some upcoming events and updates:

There's one last food forest class at PCC this year on Saturday, 11/22! This is a great place to start for folks who want to convert their yard or community space into a thriving, abundant ecosystem.

Medlars are RIPE and DELICIOUS right now, and we're going to go harvest some after our next work party on Sunday (not on 12/7). If you'd like to join, please fill out the volunteer form on the website and you'll get info about work parties coming up. If you just signed up to volunteer, this Sunday's work party is at 10am-12pm, and I'll send out the address in a separate email.

We held another hugely successful Activate Portland on Saturday, bringing together over 175 community members and 27 organizations to foster collaborations and develop relationships to make Portland a more resilient and verdant place. We're going to host our next event in February of 2026, and I hope to see you there!

If you're looking for food security via chestnut, hazelnut, or oak seedlings, we have hundreds of gorgeous, high-quality seedlings available for free for people who live in Portland and for sale ($5 each) for folks with acreage. Sales go to support our work in Portland. Please respond to this email if you'd like to get some for your land.

Thank you all for your support and enthusiasm, and I hope to see you soon.
-Dan [email protected]

Campus contactsLearn the cultural context and benefits of urban food forestry and the practical steps needed to take in order to convert a lawn or garden into an abundant perennial...

11/14/2025

Still sharing the harvest (of food and knowledge) at Blueberry Learning Farm in Cully....

What’s a hardy kiwi?  Recently renamed “kiwi berry” in some marketing, it’s related to the larger fuzzy kiwis.  They’re about the size of a grape, with smooth skin, no peeling needed.  As the weather turns cold and wet, hardy kiwis are just starting.  They peak in November, and can h...

10/24/2025

This great workshop is a collaboration between Handmade Gardens and MERP!

Tomorrow’s rain harvesting workshop should be…overflowing with good information.    We set up a new system for the Steele Magnolia House, office site for MERP.  Just a reminder….the workshop is there, 9217 SE Steele St.  (Not at Blueberry Learning Farm, the site of most of our classes.). H...