BLUEBERRY LEARNING GARDENS

About Blueberry

Blueberry is an intentional community and learning space for urban regenerative agriculture, forest gardening, and low-impact urban agriculture. Since 2007, we grow all of our own produce, share food and knowledge with the larger community, harvest rain water, build soil, and close our loops as much as possible.

Over 150 species of plants indigenous to the Pacific Northwest thrive on this land. In addition, at least 50 non-indigenous species of food, medicine, and pollinator plants may live here at any one time.

When this project began in 2007, the soil was depleted by decades of destructive management. The land was covered with plastic trash or with a sparse lawn. Over 17 years, we have built deep rich soil and a thriving ecosystem. We compost as much as possible of all materials on the land, and scavenge organic matter that others treat as “waste” such as leaves and wood chips.

We host classes, tours, work-and-learn parties, and field trips for other groups. We welcome volunteers to get their hand in the soil, learn from us, and share in the harvest.

Get Involved

Contact us via email: https://handmadegardenspdx.com/contact/

For updates on classes, tours, work-and-learn parties, and other events, join the mailing list at: https://handmadegardenspdx.com/

For a schedule of vegetable gardening classes, look here: https://handmadegardenspdx.com/year-round-harvest-course/

For other classes look here: https://handmadegardenspdx.com/schedule-classes-tours/

For more information about our intentional community see: ic.org/blueberry

We are located at 4446 NE Going Street, Portland, OR.

Land accountability

Knowing that we live and work on stolen land, we are building relationships with indigenous neighbors at Mamook Tokatee, Illahee, and elsewhere to use this land that is rightfully theirs. We volunteer at NAYA and seek opportunities to work for indigenous sovereignty. Part of the land is being rematriated with indigenous plants.