- VetREST Pathways to Purpose Gathering
Join us Wednesday, December 3, 2025, for a VetREST end of year Pathways to Purpose gathering and community building event.
- Cathedral Park Planting with Portland Parks & Rec
Thank you for joining us Friday, November 7, 2025, for our recent planting at the Cathedral Park Nature Patch. Photos now posted + see progress since April
- Bybee Lakes Victory Garden / Friends of Trees Work Day
Thank you for helping us plant over 650 starts while braving the ‘warm’ rain. The starts are HAPPY!
- Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Harvest Workdays 2025
Thank you for helping at our Saturday, October 18, 2025, Fall Harvest & Clean Up of Bybee Lakes Victory Garden. Our August harvest gathered a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
- Stand Together at Bybee Lakes Victory Garden
Thank you as we joined the Timbers, Friends of Trees, Youth Corps, and VetREST recently at Bybee Lakes Victory Garden for a summer work party.
- Bybee Lakes Victory Garden / Friends of Trees Planting
Thank you for helping us plant over 800 starts in our Garden! See photos from event
- Project Help – Teeing Up for Veterans
Join us on October 7, 2024 for a Fundraiser to help Veterans including a 18 Hole golf Scramble, with Lunch, Dinner, and Open Bar at the Black Bear Golf Club, Franklin, NJ
- Rock & Blues – Festival for Veterans
A Festival for Veterans, Saturday, September 7, 2024.
Featuring: Live Bands, Food Trucks, Full Bar, Motorcycle Run, Family Fun!
WHY: Raising money for VetREST and other Veteran non-profits. WHERE: Fraternal Order of the Eagles, Bridgewater, NJ. 12 – 8pm, Rain or Shine!
- Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Harvest Workday
Join us Saturday, October 19, 2024, from 9:30am-12pm to help harvest our fall bounty and prepare our gardens for winter.
- Bybee Lakes Victory Garden Fall Volunteer Work Day
Come help us In the Garden – Thurs. September 19, 2024 (9:30am – noon). We’re looking for volunteers to help prepare our garden for harvest!
We are excited to announce our new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program based at the Bybee Lakes Hope Center Victory Garden. We will focus on crafting cut flowers into beautiful floral bouquets to offer during the summer of 2026. The CSA model has its roots in the work of Black farmers in the American South. In the ...
Beginning March 2026, the VetREST Therapeutic Horticulture series works to bring the healing power of working and tending the land to Veterans in the Portland Metro area. During these facilitated monthly activities we will grow together with sessions that highlight the seasonality of garden work and parallels to personal growth. Our goal is to provide those who ...