Connect with partners and resources across campus to find opportunities for combating climate change and boosting sustainability efforts.
Free to all Reed community members, the Swap Shop finds new homes for gently used donated items.
Learn how recycling and waste management on campus works, and see what’s accepted at the recycling center.
Sustainability Leadership Program
An internship program for students who want to drive meaningful change and foster a culture of sustainability.
Outdoor Spaces
Garden
Learn new skills and cultivate a deeper connection to food, earth, and each other in the Reed Community Garden. Located outside of Garden House along SE 28th Avenue, this student-managed learning garden provides a space for hands-on engagement with sustainable food growing. Led by two dedicated garden stewards, students come together for regular work parties to tend the garden, build community, and reconnect with place.
The garden grows a wide variety of vegetables and other produce, which is free for Reed community members and made available at the Reed Community Pantry.
Orchard
The orchard, located at the end of the canyon off of SE 37th Avenue, is an area on campus with fruit trees, grapes, and shaded space for spending time outside. The fruit trees—apples, pears, and plums—are well-established and produce large quantities of food each summer and fall. Reed community members are welcome to partake.
Canyon
The Reed canyon is a 28-acre watershed in the heart of the campus, running east to west, dividing north from south, and spanned by two pedestrian bridges and a land bridge. Revitalized in the last decade, today the canyon is full of native plant species and wildlife. The lake that runs through its center is home to many species of waterbirds, fish, and aquatic mammals such as beavers, otters, and nutria. Walking paths are well-maintained, and open to the public as well as the Reed community.