Baseball field turned Indigenous-led community garden takes root in Portland
Jessie Sears / OPB
How one nonprofit is reclaiming Indigenous land and embracing ancestral foods.
By Alejandro Figueroa (OPB)
Sept 19, 2025
Excerpt:
The garden is now on what used to be a baseball field. The dug out and a scoreboard is still visible some yards away, and vines are now climbing up the backstop.
“We have grapes back there,” she said. “So we’re also repurposing some of the infrastructure that was in place when we purchased this area.”
The garden, called Wapas Nah Née Shaku — which means “Holding the basket” in Wasco — is just behind the Native American Youth and Family Center, or NAYA, campus, which used to be a middle school in the Cully neighborhood of Northeast Portland.
Suppah, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and half Shoshone Bannock, is the Indigenous food sovereignty coordinator at NAYA.
The nonprofit runs programming and services for Native American families, youth and elders in Portland, a city that has one of the largest urban Native communities in the nation, representing nearly 400 tribal affiliations, according to the NAYA’s estimates.
The community garden, which got a $3.6 million boost in 2022 from the Portland Clean Energy Fund — as part of that program’s agriculture and green infrastructure investment priorities — is meant to make space for people in and also outside those communities to learn and reclaim traditional agricultural practices.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/baseball-field-turned-indigenous-led-community-garden-takes-root-in-portland/
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