Oregon Food Bank's Learning Gardens are vibrant gathering spaces, bringing the community together to grow vegetables, relationships and hope.
OFB's Eastside Learning Garden is located at OFB Headquarters in northeast Portland.
The Westside Learning Garden is located down the street from the new OFB West facility on the grounds of Five Oaks Middle School in Beaverton. The Westside Garden is a collaborative effort between OFB's Dig In! volunteers and students at Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School. Each school year 180 Rachel Carson student volunteers share their energy and enthusiasm to tend the garden while learning about gardening and hunger in an hands-on environment.
Learn more about the partnership.
Programs
The Learning Gardens offer three programs to address the root causes of hunger through increased nutrition, community food security and self-reliance.
The Seed to Supper program offers a free series of gardening workshops to low-income groups in the metro area.
Dig In! gives community members a chance to help fight hunger by working together to grow wholesome, organic food for distribution to hunger-relief agencies in Multnomah and Washington counties.
Cooking from the Garden combines the expertise of Learning Garden and Nutrition Education volunteers to bring fresh produce from field to fork while teaching at-risk teens basic gardening, nutrition and kitchen skills.
Useful links
Questions? Please contact Ali Abbors at 503-282-0555, Ext. 2268, or aabbors at oregonfoodbank.org.
