An urban farm tucked away in a Portland neighborhood thrives after 30 years
The garden was the brainchild of Kim McDodge, who used a $10,000 inheritance in 1993 to buy the parcel and transform it into an organic urban farm.
By Dennis Peck
Oregon Live
Jun. 17, 2025
Excerpt:
All of this has its seeds in a continuing dream that began in 1993, and it’s here, on this property in Northeast Portland, that community and garden come together.
The Ariadne Garden is not a typical community garden, however.
Instead, it’s a garden for the community, providing an evolving menu of vegetables and fruits, based on the time of year. The produce stand, on the same plot where the produce is grown, is open on Saturdays from May through October. Proceeds from the sales are plowed back into covering any garden expenses.
If someone were so inclined they could come watch their future meals grow bigger in the ground each week.
As volunteer Dan Clark, who spends his work life in front of a computer, put it: “Your community is where you make it.”
And a group of 20-25 volunteers choose to make it at Ariadne Garden.
The garden was the brainchild of Kim McDodge, who used a $10,000 inheritance in 1993 to buy the parcel and transform it into an organic urban farm.
To protect the land from future development, in 1995 she deeded the property to the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to regenerative farming and urban gardening. It was the group’s first of what has grown to nine properties, most in Portland but stretching as far south as Canby.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/an-urban-farm-tucked-away-in-a-portland-neighborhood-thrives-after-30-years/
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