Looking to transform your garden into a resilient, productive, and sustainable food system? Join Slow Food Portland and Kindness Farm for an immersive, hands-on workshop, where you’ll gain real, actionable skills to improve your soil, grow healthier plants, and conserve resources - whether you're working with a backyard, a small urban plot, or a community garden.
Guided by Ryan Elwood, Lead Farmer at Kindness Farm, this interactive workshop blends expert instruction with hands-on practice so you’ll leave feeling confident about applying regenerative techniques at home.
✅ Four hours of expert-led education on regenerative gardening practices.
✅ A hands-on learning experience where you’ll see, touch, and practice key techniques.
✅ A fully catered lunch from a local BIPOC-owned business.
✅ FREE seeds to take home and start applying what you’ve learned right away.
✅ Direct impact – Your ticket supports Kindness Farm, a nonprofit urban farm working to fight food insecurity in Portland.
What You’ll Learn & Practice
🌱 Soil Health & Composting – Understand how to build and maintain nutrient-rich soil.
💧 Water-Wise Gardening – Learn irrigation techniques that conserve water while keeping plants healthy.
🌿 Resilient Planting Strategies – Explore companion planting and succession planting for year-round food production.
🌾 Seed Saving & Sustainability – Discover how to collect and store seeds for long-term garden success.
We ask those who can to contribute the minimum $30 donation - this covers a fully catered lunch from a local BIPOC-owned business and allows us to make a meaningful donation to Kindness Farm for their time and expertise. Scholarship tickets are available to keep the event accessible, but if you’re able to, your financial support directly funds this event and the farm’s work in food justice and education.
Why Kindness Farm?
Kindness Farm is a first-generation immigrant, refugee, and queer-led nonprofit farm committed to food justice and regenerative agriculture. Over the past two years, they have:
Provided produce for over 36,500 meals, feeding 9,266 community members.
Taught 920+ people how to grow their own food.
Built a thriving, inclusive space dedicated to sustainability and community care.
📅 Date: Saturday, April 6, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Kindness Farm, 7101 SE 127th Ave, Portland, OR 97236
💰 $30 minimum suggested donation - includes a full day workshop and a catered lunch (scholarship tickets available, email us athello@slowfoodportland.com)
Event Schedule
🔹 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM – Welcome & Farm Tour: Learn how Kindness Farm integrates regenerative agriculture practices.
🔹 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM – Hands-On Composting Demo – Practical techniques for building healthy soil.
🔹 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM – Catered Lunch – A meal prepared by a local BIPOC-owned business.
🔹 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM – Regenerative Gardening 101 – A deep dive into practical techniques, with live Q&A.
🌧️ Rain or shine! The event will take place in a covered workshop space if needed.
Space is limited to 30 participants - sign up now!