Kitchen Gardens
A kitchen garden is a garden space dedicated to growing vegetables, fruits, and culinary herbs. Raised beds take the hard work out of gardening and are designed to entice regular visits, so you can harvest fresh ingredients and prepare meals straight from the garden with confidence and ease. We provide instruction and support to ensure your gardening experience is peaceful and enjoyable.
Raised Bed Kitchen Gardens
Noble Root designs and installs custom raised bed gardens designed to maximize Portland’s 9+ month growing season. While some people think about gardening only during the warm days of spring and summer, the truth is you can grow a bountiful, edible kitchen garden that produces almost all year! We support you throughout each of Portland’s growing seasons using succession and intensive planting techniques.
Our hands-on garden coaching will set you up for success!
Design for Style and Function
At Noble Root, we focus on the design of your space so much because your kitchen garden is a reflection of you! This means the structures themselves are as important as the plants you put in them. By building raised beds that blend style and function, we create the ideal growing conditions for frequent and regular harvests.
There are many benefits to growing food at home:
Save water
Reduce your carbon footprint
Keep harmful pesticides out of your body, home & the environment
Improve your nutrition
Enjoy time spent outdoors
De-stress in your own private sanctuary
Provide critical habitat for pollinators
Strengthen neighborhood resilience
Intensive Planting Techniques to Grow Food
Ideal for smaller spaces like backyard gardens, intensive planting adds aesthetic value to your garden space, enhances the health of kitchen gardens, and allows for regular, frequent harvests.
By planting a variety of species in close proximity to one another, we mimic the beneficial traits found in resilient ecosystems such as greater plant diversity and beneficial canopy cover. Ideal for smaller spaces like backyard gardens, intensive planting adds aesthetic value to your garden space, enhances the health of kitchen gardens, and allows for regular, frequent harvests. It’s nature’s way of maximizing a small growing space.
Benefits of intensive planting in raised beds:
Fewer weeds = more time enjoying your kitchen garden
Improved moisture retention = lower water usage
Optimal soil blends = vigorous plants
More plant diversity = fewer pests
Aerated, non-compacted soil = better drainage & higher yields
Raised plant height = everything is within reach
We encourage you to reflect on principles found in nature and rethink how we grow!
