Come help us In the Garden – Sat., March 9, 2024 (9am – 1pm). We need to get our garden and orchard ready for this year. Join an arborist and an OSU Master Gardener.
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Projects and past events
Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Orchard Party
Join us Saturday, December 9, 2023, 1-4pm, for an Orchard Work Party. Help us get our garden ready for 2024!
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Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Harvest & Work Party
Join us Sunday October 14, 2023, from 9am-12pm to help finish the fence and harvest our fall bounty.
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Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Work Day
Join us Tuesday August 1, 8am – 12 noon to help finish the fence and take care of regular garden maintenance.
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Metro Central Victory Garden Work Day – July 25
Please join us July 25, 2023, from 3-6pm to help out at out Metro Central Victory Garden at St. Johns Village in Portland. We’re growing!
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Metro Central Victory Garden
In 2022, a new Victory Garden at St John’s Village in North Portland was envisioned and planned. Chartered through a Metro Central Enhancements grant, work on the Victory Garden was underway with the support of Village participants and other volunteers. Work included clearing and grading, installation of a pathway and new retaining wall, planting of […]
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St. Johns Farmer’s Market Season 2023
Starting May 6, 2023 First day at St Johns Farmers Market Join as VetREST along with Bybee Lakes Hope Center partner to sell birdhouses and produce at the weekly St. Johns Opportunity Farmers Market as a fundraiser for the Bybee Lakes Hope Center Victory Garden Schedule Saturdays 9:00am – 2:00pm May 6 – October 28, […]
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Bybee Lakes Victory “Garden Party”
VetREST & Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers (two area 501(c)(3) non-profits) have partnered to create a Victory Garden at the Bybee Lakes Hope Center (BLHC) that will provide hope & healing for homeless veterans, families and participants. Opened in October 2020, BLHC transforms the never-occupied, 155,000 square foot Wapato Corrections Facility into a trauma-informed, data-driven transitional housing facility. Our […]
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Team Rubicon “Build a Fence” Day – Part 2!
Thank you for helping us “Build a Fence” with Team Rubicon!
We need to finish our goal. Please join us July 13, 2023, from 11am – 3pm.
Bybee Lakes Hope Center Victory Garden
VetREST & Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers (two area 501(c)(3) non-profits) have partnered to create a Victory Garden at the Bybee Lakes Hope Center (BLHC) that will provide hope & healing for homeless Veterans, families and participants. The nearly 3 acre development on the site of a former correctional facility, now homeless transition center, launched […]
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