Growing Gardens

Care does not have to be expensive, complicated, or hidden behind a label 🌿

Sometimes it looks like a room full of people sharing what they already know ✨

In partnership with Adelante Mujeres and Metro, we co-hosted Care for your Body, the Earth, and your Mind, a community workshop rooted in environmental justice, cultural knowledge, and everyday practice 💚

Participants from Adelante Mujeres’ Environmental Justice and Leadership Program, Home Gardens families in Washington County, and community members came together to explore safer, more sustainable personal care. Not just learning, but teaching. Sharing recipes, swapping stories, and building on generations of lived experience 🌱

Together, we used Metro’s personal care kits to create DIY skin scrubs and reimagined what self-care can look like when it is rooted in accessibility, culture, and care for the earth 🌎

Use the group photo for this one. The collective energy says it best 🤝

There’s something powerful about kids getting their hands in the soil and realizing they can grow their own food. 🌱👐

Our friends at Faubion School are hosting their annual Plant Sale, and it’s one of those beautiful, full-circle moments, where community support turns into garden beds, curious minds, and kids who actually want to eat their vegetables (we love to see it). 🌼🥕

You’ll find affordable veggie starts, flower starts, and seeds, all grown to help fund hands-on garden learning for students. 🌿🌸

Order by May 1 🗓
Pick up: May 15, 2:30–5:30 PM ⏰
St. Michael’s Lutheran Church (NE Portland) 📍

Grab your starts, grow something meaningful, and support the next generation of gardeners while you’re at it. 🌎💚

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Because when we invest in kids and gardens, we’re growing a future that feeds all of us. 🌱✨

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