As a value driven company, serving community causes is a built into the framework of SymbiOp. One Friday a month, our garden shop donates 10% of sales to a local nonprofit, such as the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) and Afro Village PDX, and on July 29th we will be supporting Wild Diversity. …
Native Ecoscape Installation & Maintenance at Sabin CDC, a Portland Nonprofit Read More
When their garden could no longer keep up with the demand for three restaurants, the owners of reached out to see what could be done in making the grow show more productive, unique and requiring less overall labour. We took the approach of showcasing many incredible local farmers and letting them handle annual production, perennializing …
Pre-2020 Showcase #3: Three Food Forests for three Restaurants Read More
Hygiene4All is a houseless-led Portland nonprofit dedicated to create community hygiene, sanitation, and safety hubs for our houseless neighbors. SymbiOp was tasked to build planters, fences, raise beds, and stonescapes for this particular hub so that the space is not only safe but also beautiful. As usual, we gave this project our non-profit discount.
Tabor Commons is venue owned and operated by Southeast Uplift, a Portland non-profit with a mission to collaborate with the Southeast Portland community to build informed, inclusive, and participatory neighborhoods that support our social and ecological well-being. We are very glad to work with them because their mission aligns perfectly with SymbiOp’s mission. As usual, …
Bioswales, Food Forest, Medicine Garden, and Native Habitat at Tabor Commons Read More
This client reached out to us after frustrating experiences with other landscaping companies who don’t know the proper ways to maintain native bioswales / stormwater management facilities. They used aggressive landscaping methods that end up chopping off perfectly healthy native grasses in the basins, which eventually resulted in them dying in mass. Our expertise allowed …
