SymbiOp is a worker-owned landscaping cooperative in Portland, OR. This employee-owned coop has grown from 2 to 25 employees since 2020. The cooperative has residential and commercial landscaping services plus a garden shop.
What distinguishes SymbiOp is their approach to work. They use regenerative agricultural practices and their business is a worker-owned cooperative. What they do and how they do their work relies on cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with the land, their colleagues, and their customers.
SymbiOp customers are attracted to SymbiOp’s values, an alternative way of doing business. One of SymbiOp’s customers is the city of Portland where SymbiOp maintains the city’s public plants, street trees, and plazas, contributing to Portland’s regenerative ecosystem.
SymbiOp members began the cooperative 4 years ago by bootstrapping. LEAF’s loan helps them to do what they love–cultivating the land with regenerative agriculture practices while supporting their worker-cooperative. By providing a loan to SymbiOp, LEAF expands the cooperative ecosystem, cultivating beneficial relationships between the people and the land.