2025 Volunteer Days: 7/9 at Riverton
Join us for a volunteer “happy hour” at North St Community Garden on July 9th from 5 to 7 pm!
2025 Volunteer Days: 6/11
Join us for a volunteer “happy hour” at North St Community Garden on June 11th from 5 to 7 pm!
April 2025 News
Happy Earth Day! Celebrate spring and our natural world by getting involved with local food justice work at Cultivating Community. This is our busiest time of year, and we are getting into the swing of the growing season. This week, community garden registration is underway, we’re potting up seedlings at the farm, school gardens are waking up with spring planting, and our staff is working hand in hand with our partners to fight for our local food system and the rights and safety of immigrant and marginalized farmers.
Celebrate Community Farms
Join us on May 31st at Allagash Brewing Co. Cellars to celebrate our Community Farms! This event is free and family friendly. We’ll have live music, a raffle, local snacks, and Boyd St. Orchard peach beer.
Wake up the Garden Party 05/01
Cultivating Community’s Spring program, Youth Leadership Intensive, invites you to help “wake up” the Boyd St. Urban Farm for Maine’s growing season! At this party you’ll: Give our youth interns the chance to lead an event, work on garden projects, clean up green spaces, and connect as a community over the promise of new growth!
Raised Bed Building at Common Share Garden: 5/10
We are hosting a raised bed building workshop at Common Share Community Garden. Common Share is a one acre communally-farmed garden nestled within Portland’s Easter Prom. Help us transform this in-ground garden into a beautiful raised bed garden before the growing season begins!
2025 Midwinter News
We’re all absorbing a lot of news right now, and it’s not a time to add to the noise. We do, however, want to share how Cultivating Community’s work is impacted by the uncertainty and loss of federal funding and how we are approaching our work moving forward. We’re going to keep growing good food and building community.
3/15 Winter Pruning Workshop
9 – 11 am Saturday, March 15th, 2025Boyd St Urban Orchard, 58 Boyd St, PortlandAll are welcome! Tired of winter and looking for a fun winter activity? Join us! Cultivating Community and ReTreeUs are hosting an interactive winter pruning workshop…
Winter 2024 News
This winter, we’re celebrating updates to our mission, a succesful raised bed building workshop at Boyd St., the launch of our greenhouse fundraising campaign, and more!
Announcing USDA Funding to Build Raised Beds
This project is an exciting next phase of our partnership with the City’s Parks, Recreation & Facilities Department to ensure that Portland’s 11 community gardens are safe and accessible. We are happy to announce that we have secured funding through the Maine Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for the next 3 garden rebuilds!