Making the world more abundant & alive
Upcoming Food Forest classes & Tours
Join us this summer for tours of our food forest sites and classes on food forest design and implementation, regenerative ag, agroforestry, plant care and propagation, placemaking, and land tending!
July 13 Food Forest Class - FULL
10am at Portland Nursery
July 27th Food Forest Tour - FULL
11-12:30 at Cully #1 Food Forest
August 10th Food Forest Tour -FULL
11-12:30 Cully #1 Food Forest
Advocating for the future
As an ecosystem-focused non-profit, we envision a verdant world of abundance. Everyone deserves food security and access to nutrient-dense foods. We advocate for food-producing afforestation of public and private spaces that are otherwise water-thirsty grass-spaces. Turning monocrop grass-spaces into productive perennial foodscapes boosts soil health and soil biology, letting nature work its magic, gently guided by the human hand and permaculture principles, and de-simplifying degraded land.
Land tending apprenticeship
We are looking to connect FOOD FOREST STEWARD APPRENTICES with homeowners that have agreed to convert their lawns into food forests in 2024. If you don’t have access to land and would like to tend a food forest and grow your own food, putting your PDC and or gardening experience to use in NE Portland or SE Portland, please consider joining us as we prepare for next year.
We love fruit trees and are here to help you maintain yours. Pruning is a skill that takes years of practice to hone and your trees deserve to be cared for by a skilled pruner who can guide your trees to health and production.
We are licensed, bonded, and insured OR #100328
Creating resilient edible landscapes in Portland, OR
We are a 501c3 non-profit that advocates for and facilitates the conversion of grass lawns into nutritionally-dense permaculture / agroforestry landscapes (food forests) that capture and store rainwater, sequester carbon, create habitat, enrich public spaces, and increase food security for decades. Our Forest Gardens add ecological complexity where it has been simplified, making the world more abundant and alive. Read more about our mission.
Convert your yard into a food forest!
Why food forests?
For tens of thousands of years first peoples of the North American continent have tended their landbases, often in the form of perennial forest gardens, selecting for nutrient density and flavor without creating a degenerative disturbance in the ecosystem.
Unlike annual agriculture brought by european colonizers which sterilizes ecosystems, degrades soil, and produces nutrient-poor calories, Perennial forest gardens improve the ecosystem, improve soil health, and produce nutrient dense calories.
What is now the Portland metro area was home to Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, and Molalla peoples who interacted with the landscape in a (literally) sustainable way, tending its abundance, enriching its ecosystem, interconnected with all its inhabitants and cycles.
As we reconsider our place and work in the world, we recognize that It’s time to steward our landbase through regenerative practices and in relationship with the more-than-human world.
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Your tax-deductable donation will go directly toward our programs, community outreach, plant propagation, and purchase of tools and plants. Your support is deeply appreciated!