1. To grow food locally within neighborhoods
2. To share resources
3. 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