Vermont Hills Community Garden

The project dates to 1982, when the Vermont Hills Methodist Church teamed up with Portland Parks & Recreation to transform an empty field on church grounds. As plot demand grew, a 2010 expansion unpaved the corridor between the church and existing plots, adding a 7,200-square-foot growing area across a site that now totals 0.43 acres. Removing the hard surface curtailed runoff into the watershed, channeling improved growing conditions into harvests directed toward people in need across southwest Portland.