Mission

Portland Food Forest Initiative is a 501c3 non-profit committed to:

• The transformation of private and public lawns into food forests that feed all community members, especially those experiencing food insecurity

• Bringing awareness to, popularizing, and normalizing food forests as urban and suburban landscaping

• Creation of diverse regenerative urban ecosystems creating habitat for all creatures

• Facilitating access to land for marginalized community members for the purpose of regenerative urban agriculture and agroforestry

• Public advocacy of productive urban greenspaces

• Community engagement in areas of food security and sovereignty

• Public education in ecosystem literacy, regenerative agriculture, and skills needed to restore urban degraded lands to abundance