We advocate for food policies that ensure access to fresh food and community renewal. With every new urban garden, we are part of a movement to employ natural assets to revitalize our neighborhoods.
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- Founded:
- 1996
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- Dine Out to Dig In
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Wednesday, October 21 at 9:00am - Labor Day Picnic Eat-In @ Time...
Washington High School
Monday, September 7 at 12:30pm - Public Screening of ''Mad City...
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Saturday, July 25 at 8:00pm - 6th Annual Tour de Coops
Portland
Saturday, July 25 at 11:00am - New Seasons Market veggie star...
all New Seasons Market stores - see...
Saturday, June 6 at 12:00pm - Earth Day at Whole Foods Markets
Portland Metro
Wednesday, April 22 at 10:00am - Community Benefit Square Dance
Village Ballroom
Monday, March 30 at 7:00pm
Growing Gardens
:: vote for Growing Gardens before Friday, and Chase will invest $25,000 in our mission to improve health and self-sufficiency by teaching people how to grow food at home!
Go to the page, click on the Chase Giving tab and search for Growing Gardens. Thanks!
It can be incredibly rewarding when your vote has a local impact. Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs you to help pick which ones. Simply vote for your favorite nonprofit and then get friends and others on Facebook to do the same. You can sele...ct from over 500,000 charities that focus on education, healthcare, housing, environmental issues, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services, and animal welfare. Give your charity the recognition it deserves and needs with Chase Community Giving. It's a new Way Forward for giving. See the Official Rules http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules for complete eligibility requirements.
Financial Service:887,335 fans
Growing Gardens :: tickets for the Leve Charity Ball are going fast... join us for affordable fun for a good cause -- Growing Gardens! tickets are $30 now, and $35 at the door. We look forward to celebrating with you!
www.leve-nw.org
Growing Gardens gets at the root of hunger in Portland by providing the means and necessary education to build vegetable gardens in the homes of lower income families.
Growing Gardens can win $25,000 from Chase Bank, with your vote. Go to the page, click on the Chase Giving tab and search for Growing Gardens. Thanks!
It can be incredibly rewarding when your vote has a local impact. Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs you to help pick which ones. Simply vote for your favorite nonprofit and then get friends and others on Facebook to do the same. You can sele...ct from over 500,000 charities that focus on education, healthcare, housing, environmental issues, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services, and animal welfare. Give your charity the recognition it deserves and needs with Chase Community Giving. It's a new Way Forward for giving. See the Official Rules http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules for complete eligibility requirements.
Financial Service:887,335 fans
Growing Gardens thanks Kraemer Farms -- buy your Christmas tree (Doug Firs and Nobles) from them at the Mississippi Marketplace at the corner of NE Skidmore, and they'll donate 15% to Growing Gardens. Each Friday and Saturday from 11/27 thru Christmas.
Growing Gardens is reading a disturbing NYT story about hunger rates reaching a 14-year high -- that's 17 million households annually. The saddest statistic of all is that kids are most affected, as in previous years parents forewent food. Now, there isn't enough for one plate, let alone two.
www.nytimes.com
The number of Americans who lacked access to sufficient food shot up to its highest point since the government began surveying, the Agriculture Department reported.
Growing Gardens is in the Willamette Week Give!guide this year! Pick up a paper copy, or check us out online. Thanks for supporting us and Portland non-profits.
giveguide.oaktree.com
Willamette Week has selected just over 75 worthy Portland-area non-profit organizations for their annual holiday giving campaign. All money donated goes directly to the selected causes. Visit the site ...
Growing Gardens Meet the Crew Leaders! With the help of dozens of volunteers we're building home gardens for 26 families and 1 small community garden at an apartment this fall. Our Saturday garden installation work-parties wouldn't be possible with out the help from these 10 fantastic volunteer Crew Leaders.
Growing Gardens :: thank you, Leve, for making Growing Gardens this year's beneficiary of the Charity Ball! Tickets available now for this fantastic event, December 4th at the Olympic Mills.
www.leve-nw.org
Growing Gardens gets at the root of hunger in Portland by providing the means and necessary education to build vegetable gardens in the homes of lower income families.
Growing Gardens
a great partnership in Beaverton: Oregon Food Bank teams up with students to grow food for the community: http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncoun
Beaverton students will help grow food for the Oregon Food Bank | Washington County News - – OregonL
www.oregonlive.com
BEAVERTON -- Oregon Food Bank has teamed up with Beaverton schools for a garden that will feed people in the community.The food bank will open its Westside Learning Garden at Five Oaks Middle School, blocks ...
Growing Gardens
hopes to see you TOMORROW at one (or all) of our Dine Out to Dig In restaurants! 10-20% of your bill will support our work to fight hunger by building food gardens at homes and schools in Portland. http://www.growing-gardens.org/donate/di
www.growing-gardens.org
Growing Gardens promotes organic food gardens in Portland, Oregon for good food, healthy people and self-reliance for those most in need.
Growing Gardens :: is food the next frontier for urban planning? Read about Multnomah County's 15-year food initiative. Growing Gardens will share our expertise on the steering committee.
www.oregonlive.com
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Growing Gardens Help build gardens this fall. Get dirty! Have fun!
www.growing-gardens.org
Growing Gardens promotes organic food gardens in Portland, Oregon for good food, healthy people and self-reliance for those most in need.
Growing Gardens :: excited to be the beneficiary of Ziva Salon's annual fashion show -- your $40 gets you a free hair cut, a goodie bag, and delish refreshments -- our own Rodney Bender and Marissa Madrigal are part of the line-up!
www.zivanet.com
How would you like to win a $100 gift card at Ziva? This gift card can be used for products or services. I will randomly select five people who e-mail me answers to the following questions by October 31st: 1. ...
Growing Gardens
dine out to dig a garden, October 21! See where here: http://www.growing-gardens.org/donate/di
www.growing-gardens.org
Growing Gardens promotes organic food gardens in Portland, Oregon for good food, healthy people and self-reliance for those most in need.
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