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Welcome to Verdura Culinary Gardens!We make it easy to grow organic vegetables in your own raised bed garden, at work or at home.
We'll coach you to gardening success.Learn to succeed in growing organic vegetables - right in the privacy of your own back yard! Read more
Bring the joy of gardening to your workplace.How's that for a great employee benefit — an organic gardening program at work! Read more
As local, seasonal and sustainable as it gets.Why grow organic vegetables at home? Here's a list of great reasons, for starters. Read more
Looking for a way to help people help themselves?Read more about what you can do, at home or at work. Read more

To get a vegetable garden started at home or at work, email or call us at 503.684.3980.

It's packed with seasonal gardening tips, recipes, links and a list of what to plant and harvest.

We are enjoying the most beautiful salad tonight… What a treat! Thank you for gathering the lettuces and radishes. Your lovely basket is a nice touch over plastic bags.”

—Shannon, NE Portland

Bring organic vegetable gardening home — or to your workplace!

If you live or work in the Portland, OR metro area and have a sunny spot on your property, you can have your own raised bed vegetable garden. Verdura’s gardens are productive and cost-effective, providing a bounty of fresh vegetables and herbs to homeowners as well as employees.

We help Portland-area homeowners set up raised bed vegetable gardens with customized planting plans. We coach gardeners of any age to learn to grow organically, and can help you maintain your new culinary garden. Learn more at Gardens for the Home.

What a great sustainability initiative, employee benefit and public relations opportunity, all wrapped up in one! Verdura's Garden at Work program does all this and more while beautifying property and replacing wasteful grass… Learn more at Gardens for the Workplace.

Not everyone lives in Portland! If you are out of the area or just prefer to do it yourself, check out Verdura's detailed plans to create your own unique raised bed frames, irrigation systems, trellises and garden planting plans.