We meet with you at your home, learn about your goals, and create a detailed plan of action for creating a thriving edible garden that meets your particular needs.
Learn MoreWe install custom built and beautifully handcrafted Raised Garden Beds that will make growing a vegetable garden a productive and fulfilling activity for years to come.
Learn MoreWe provide full service vegetable garden maintenance from seed to harvest, ensuring success and making the process easy for you. We also offer one-on-one support to help you become a confident and capable home gardener.
Learn MoreWe meet you at your home, learn about your goals, assess the potential for growing food, and come up with a plan for helping you get the most out of your edible garden
We follow up with a detailed proposal for the services and support that we can provide to meet your specific goals and needs
If appropriate, we install carefully handcrafted raised beds at your home to make growing your own food accessible, easy and fun for years to come
We create a detailed Planting Plan for your garden ensuring that you can be successful in growing the vegetables that you most want throughout the year
We provide hands-on support in the planting and care of your vegetable garden throughout the year, including professional instruction if you want to learn how to be self-sufficient
You get to harvest an abundance of fresh, organic vegetables from your home garden!
Born and raised in Portland, Ian worked on and managed organic farms in Vermont, Argentina, Hawaii, and California before coming home to roost. He received an Advanced Certificate in Ecological Horticulture at UC Santa Cruz in 2010 before managing 18 acres of organic vegetables at 47th Avenue Farm, one of Portland’s oldest CSA farms, growing food for over 200 Portland area families. He started Portland Edible Gardens in 2013, and has never looked back.
Originally from New York, Amelia moved to Oregon in 2016 and has been farming ever since. She has worked on and managed farms from 16 acre mixed veggies to an intensive half acre of cut flowers. Her love of plants also manifested at school educational gardens, a genomics lab at a botanical garden, a seed saving nonprofit in Bangalore, India, and flower shops across the country. When she’s not puttering in the garden, find Amelia working on a sewing project or exploring a new park with her daughter.
Alex grew up in forested and bucolic Chester County, Pa. He took interest in it’s plants, trees, and natural bounty from the beginning, befriending farmers and gardeners who shared his interest. Since working on farms in PA, and a cross country bike trip that landed him in Oregon, he has volunteered with various farmer friends for camaraderie and delicious produce. When he's not building gardens, you'll find him playing guitar, riding his bike, exploring the woods, or cooking a meal with friends.
Originally from Maine, where he earned a B.A. in Sustainable Agriculture, Michael has worked his way across the country, farming as he goes. He has worked with plants on a number of unique levels; from mixed vegetable farms, to microgreen operations, and even potato breeding. He has a wealth of knowledge and is excited to share it with the growers of Portland. Find him camping in the woods when he isn’t working in your garden.
Born and raised in upstate New York, Christopher studied organic agriculture at the UCSC Center for Agroecology in Santa Cruz, CA. He has been farming and teaching in Portland for the past decade. Along with his partner Jessie, he co-runs Oracle Orchard, a one-acre urban flower and fruit farm in the East Columbia neighborhood.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Annie moved from Washington to Oregon at 13. Annie has a love for all things outdoors. She has traveled the world with a background in merchant sailing and spends her free time exploring new places or volunteering on farms overseas. She is passionate about ecology, permaculture, and learning as much as she can to further a career in environmentally beneficial work.
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