Description:
Urban Educational Farm & School Garden Bike Tour

Urban farming and garden-based education are alive and well in SE Portland! This two-part bike tour will explore both school gardens and urban educational farms. Witness for yourself the amazing diversity of these organically-inclined models of sustainable and educational food production, and maybe get a few ideas for your own home or school garden, too!

Participants for the morning session will meet at the entrance of Learning Gardens Lab at 9:30am and the tour will begin promptly at 10:00. For this session we will visit several local schools’ learning gardens and explore their edible gardens, butterfly gardens and native habitat gardens, highlighting the outdoor classrooms (which were past VBC projects!), eco-roofs, school compost systems and more. We will return to LGL in time for lunch at noon.

The second tour will leave LGL at 1pm and will include several urban educational farms. We will learn about their crop selection, growing techniques, soil improvement and watershed restoration efforts and take a close look at chicken coups and tractors, watering systems and more. We might get to do some planting, too. Each tour will cover about 4-5 miles and our pace will be comfortable for most riders. Come for either one or stay for both. Remember to dress for the weather!

Tour Guide: Matt Bibeau, gardenlearning@gmail.com

Depart from Learning Gardens Laboratory

Time: 10am-12pm, 1pm-4pm