Sustainable Community Gardens
YOU can join the fight to end hunger.
Garden Vision:
Imagine the growth of a community green space that offers a diversity of plant and community life. Imagine a place where kids grow rich harvests of peas, greens and tomatoes; Where master gardeners stand with students and explain the process of broadcasting carrot seeds, where later on that month students are back to thin the bed they recently planted. At the same time, neighbors are connecting with neighbors to grow together interdependently, producing fresh food for their family while connecting with each other and the natural environment.
Help us grow this vision.
Marion-Polk Food Share is cultivating a DEEP relationship with our two-county region to grow rooted and sustainable food projects. Together with volunteers, community partners and donors, the Food Share is embarking on a process of empowering community gardens from smaller to larger. Our goal is to approach the challenge of hunger in our communities by taking a hands-on, systematic approach to addressing the root causes of hunger. In this regard, we see community gardening as a viable way to achieve community food security, a condition in which all residents (and visitors) obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable and equitable food system.
Marion-Polk Food Share is addressing both the immediate and long-term challenges of hunger in our communities, by focusing on whole systems and the way nutrition, food, health, community development and agriculture interact to sustain the quality of life of people and the environment. The sustainability of the Food Share Sustainable Community Gardens Program will require action that is both systematic and creative.
Four GROW objectives will be our guide in the first phase of creating a sustainable community garden program.
To contribute to the Sustainable Community Gardens program, you may donate now and designate your gift. You can also sign up to be a garden sustainer.
To contribute new or gently used garden equipment or other resources on the garden needs list, contact garden coordinator, Jordan Blake, jblake@marionpolkfoodshare.org, 503-581-3855 x323.
To plan a community garden in your neighborhood, download Sustainable Community Garden Plans or contact Jordan Blake.
“Grow-a-Row” to share the bounty from your home garden. For more information, email jblake@marionpolkfoodshare.org.
