Mission Statement

Kindness Farm is an immigrant, refugee and queer led educational, regenerative community farm in SE Portland, east of the 205. At the farm, we provide equitable access to land, the experience of growing food, environmental education, and healthy, nutritious produce to children, families, and seniors from historically and currently vulnerable communities. We teach folks about our environment and climate, and how to tend land and grow food sustainably using regenerative methods that heal the earth, preserve habitat, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and create climate resilience. As a part of our educational programming, we grow a large amount of fresh produce which is provided, at no cost, to kids and families experiencing food insecurity through partner organizations. We operate at the intersection of environmental education, food security, and community resilience in Portland and serve the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties. Our founder, staff, students, volunteers, and participants come from very diverse backgrounds and include refugees, immigrants, queer and trans folks, BIPOC, neurodivergent folks, people with disabilities, people who have low incomes, unhoused folks, children, youth, and seniors… we focus on working with demographic groups who have been historically and currently overlooked in getting the resources that they need. In the last 4 years we’ve... Empowered 5,463 kids, adults, and seniors with the experience of growing food regeneratively, access to land, and communal connection Grown over 24,000 pounds of fresh, nutritious produce, that provided 80,332 meals, produce boxes, and free food pantries of fresh, healthy produce to… 20,540+ Unhoused, low-income, students, youth and families facing barriers to food security in Portland Engaged a large, committed community to create a resilient, healing space with 27,500+ volunteer hours of many loving hands working this land