The Portland Urban Farm Project’s mission is:
- To grow food locally within neighborhoods
- To share resources
- To build community
The following initiatives are goals of the Portland Urban Farm Project:
- Growing food on unused neighborhood plots of land such as personal yards, churches, schools and tearing up pavement/parking lots
- Developing neighborhood CSAs and/or farm stand produce markets within neighborhoods
- Creating tool libraries – sharing resources and tools within neighborhoods (10 new tool libraries in 2010)
- Setting up community dinners for sharing food among neighbors
- Building commercial kitchen for use by moderate or low-income community members seeking to establish their own food busines
- Transforming yards into gardens – Offering fee-for-service projects for local landscape architects
- Saving seeds for use in the community for developing more urban farms
- Delivering food by bicycle for environmental considerations and to cut down on costs
The Portland Urban Farm Project addresses the following to build community:
- Food security
- Resource sharing
- Education
- Job creation
Contact me if you have a yard to contribute to growing food, would like to be a CSA member and/or interested in helping as a volunteer of the CSA. I will also be starting an internship program as well as a 10 month Tool Librarian program.
Send me ideas, thoughts or connections to people, organizations or businesses that might be interested in getting involved.
Thank you!
In cooperation,
Bob New
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