What Kindness Farm does

Kindness Farm is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven regenerative community farm operating on 2.5 urban acres at 7101 SE 127th Ave in SE Portland, Oregon. It was founded circa 2020 as a multicultural, queer-led organization focused on food justice, environmental education, and community healing. The farm's core operating technology is regenerative agriculture practiced across a community garden, propagation house, high tunnel, field, food forest, apiary, and goat pen, producing culturally specific, nutritionally dense crops that are donated at no cost rather than sold. The organization is almost entirely volunteer-run, with two known paid staff positions (Farm Educator; Social Media, Communications & Design Manager), and operates from a single urban site.

The farm delivers five interconnected programs: Schools and Youth (field trips and land-based education for schools with diverse, often immigrant, refugee, and low-income populations across multiple Portland school districts), Immigrant and Refugee Groups (hands-on food-growing education in the local climate), Community Learning Days (open stewardship and environmental learning events), Healthy Food Access (all produce distributed as meals, produce boxes, and free food pantry contributions through partner organizations), and Corporate & Group Volunteering (scheduled team-building days for groups of 5-50+ people). Over five years, the farm has provided access to land and education for 7,463 kids and adults, grown more than 24,000 pounds of produce supporting 84,332 meals and produce boxes, and logged 35,500+ volunteer hours; 1,300 students visited in the current year.

Revenue is generated entirely through philanthropic and voluntary mechanisms: an individual Monthly Giving Program with a tiered one-time donation menu ($25 for a child field trip, $50 for 30 meals, $100 for four families, $250 for a workshop, $500 for an immigrant/refugee group visit, $1,000 for a class visit), and corporate and group contributions on a sliding scale from $0-$500 for mission-aligned cultural organizations to $1,500-$5,000+ for large corporations. Named corporate participants include Rivermark Credit Union, New Seasons Market, Airbnb, DCI Engineers, and AmeriCorps Vista. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no leadership roster, no awards, no patents, and no AI or proprietary technology assets in the source material.

Name

Kindness Farm

Legal name

Kindness Farm

Website

https://thekindnessfarm.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kindness Farm is a nonprofit, volunteer-run regenerative farm on 2.5 acres in SE Portland, Oregon, donating all produce to food-insecure neighbors while running schools, immigrant/refugee, community learning, and corporate volunteer programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Community Agriculture

NAICS

Community Food Services (62421), Sheep and Goat Farming (1124), Support Activities for Crop Production (1151)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100), Services-Social Services (8300), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regenerative Agriculture (Soil Carbon, Cover Crops, Reduced/No-Till) (AFAGAMAA), Organic/Regenerative Sheep & Goat Production (AFAEAFAI), Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (BPAGAGAI), Sustainable/Regenerative Agriculture & Conservation Practices (EDAOAOAO)

Keywords

• Regenerative community farming
• Urban nonprofit agriculture
• Land-based education programs
• Community food access
• Volunteer farm stewardship

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: Individual donations and monthly giving program where donors contribute to support the farm's operations and programs. Donations fund food production, educational programming, and community outreach.
2. Corporate and Group Volunteer Contributions: Sliding-scale contributions from corporate and group volunteer days, ranging from $0-$500 for mission-aligned cultural organizations to $1,500-$5,000 for large corporations. These contributions support mission and cover operational costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kindness Farm operates a 2.5-acre nonprofit urban regenerative farm in SE Portland, Oregon, where 100% of produce is donated at no cost to food-insecure community members. The farm delivers land-based education and volunteer programs to schools, immigrant and refugee groups, community members, and corporate volunteer teams, producing over 24,000 pounds of food and 84,332 meals/produce boxes in the last five years.

Product overview

Kindness Farm is a nonprofit regenerative community farm offering a portfolio of five interconnected programs: Schools and Youth, Immigrant and Refugee Groups, Community Learning Days, Healthy Food Access, and Corporate & Group Volunteering. The core offering is food justice through regenerative agriculture—providing land-based education, hands-on farming experiences, and distributing all produce grown on its 2.5-acre SE Portland urban farm directly to communities experiencing food insecurity at no cost. Programs are offered to diverse populations including immigrants, refugees, LGBTQIIA2S+, low-income, BIPOC, and disabled folks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 7,463 kids & adults provided access to land and education in 5 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Food Pantry Partner OrganizationscoreOthersKindness Farm distributes produce through partner organizations that operate free food pantries. All produce grown on the 2.5 acre farm is provided directly to the community via these partnerships, contributing to 84,332+ meals and produce boxes over 5 years.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dig Deep Farms: Alameda County urban farm focused on food access and community health in underserved communities. Operates similar small-acreage, community-led food justice and volunteer program model.
• Soul Fire Farm: BIPOC-led regenerative farm in upstate New York offering food justice programming, farmer training, and youth/immigrant education. Directly comparable mission, model, and community-healing framing.
• Urban Adamah: Berkeley-based urban farm combining regenerative agriculture with Jewish community education and volunteer programs. Similar blend of food production, education, and volunteer-driven programming on a small urban acreage.
• Homeless Garden Project: Santa Cruz nonprofit organic farm providing workforce development and food access through regenerative agriculture. Comparable volunteer-driven community farm model with social services overlay.
• Jones Valley Teaching Farm: Birmingham, Alabama urban farm with intensive K-12 food education, regenerative production, and food access programming. Comparable education-and-production dual mission.
• Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture: Atlanta-based urban farm offering regenerative agriculture training, food access, and youth education programs. Comparable operating model and small paid-staff structure.
• Zenger Farm: Portland-based urban regenerative farm focused on food justice, school education, and community food access. Operates similar programming to Kindness Farm in the same metro, making it the closest geographic and mission-aligned peer.

Broad incumbents

• Oregon Food Bank: Regional food bank network operating across Oregon addressing hunger and food insecurity. Sets the broader regional standard for food access, with which Kindness Farm's distribution model aligns as a smaller producer-supplier peer.

Others

• FoodCorps: National nonprofit connecting kids to healthy food in schools. Operates in the same school-based food education space as Kindness Farm's Schools and Youth program and could be a partner or referral competitor.

Emerging players

• Black Food Sovereignty Coalition: Portland-based BIPOC-led organization focused on food justice, culturally specific food access, and community-led agriculture. Mission-adjacent peer in the same metro with similar target demographics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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