Yasuke’s Story
Yasuke Commons is a wellness company offering nutrition and health coaching services, a community organizer and a social enterprise integrated with an urban organic farm.
We work to strengthen our food and farming system through regenerative agriculture, generate positive, social, environmental and economic changes.
Alternative healthcare
What We Do
Ceate access to affordable, healthy, wholesome foods, nutrition, and alternative healthcare
Investment in Yasuke Commons stabilizes micro-enterprises in food industries in urban areas
If you invest, partner, and participate, you know that social giving is magnified not only in providing food to families in need.
New business owners will also be increased through community sharing on best practices and processes for farm land acquisition, diversification of the farm model.
Our Mission
Through our equitable programs, we seek to right the wrongs done to the BIPOC community
People of color have suffered horrific wrongs as a result of colonization, genocide and gentrification. At Yasuke Commons, our primary purpose is to remedy the lasting effects of those harms on the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of those impacted.
Our holistic healing programs work in harmony to disrupt inequities that have plagued marginalized communities for generations. Our unique business model is rooted in ancestral practices of regeneration, resilience, culturally-specific healing modalities, and plant wisdom and medicine.
Who We Are
A health and wellness non-profit organization integrated with a farm
Yasuke Commons and Commons is a woman-owned, BIPOC-led, diverse collective dedicated to healing the harms done through systemic racism and oppressive systems.
About Michelle
Founder of Yasuke Commons
Dr. Michelle Rose hails from a lineage of farmers. She was inspired to take up farming after obtaining a degree in neuropsychology where she learned about the connection between food and health. Driven by a passion for food & racial justice, she recognized the importance of having access to nutritious, culturally relevant food in addressing the health challenges that plague many BIPOC communities.
Farming History
Michelle began farming 17 years ago with an organic farm in Ridgefield, WA. She farmed through various incubator programs in OR and received training in permaculture, water conservation & regenerative agriculture. She earned a degree in Sustainability and Healthcare. She currently grows produce on Multnomah County Soil and Land Conservation land (OR) which is predominantly distributed to underserved BIPOC neighborhoods in the Portland Metro area. Our project leadership team has several decades of combined farming experience.
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Our Services
Nutrition & Fitness
In this program, you will receive dietician-developed customized meal plans and grocery lists. You will also have access to our on-demand video library, online workshops, and support groups, and limited live classes and workshops.
Health & Mental Wellness
The Health Coaching Service offers a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. The program serves to bridge the gap between clinicians and patients by providing assistance to people who need help navigating the healthcare system.
Food Equity Programs
Meal Box Programs offer all the ingredients needed to prepare a home-cooked meal – including a vegetarian option. We also provide prepared holiday meals for the houseless.
Food Box / Community Healing
The Equity Food Box Program uses a co-op model that centers equity by offering a one level membership to all. What this means is all members receive the same benefits and have access to the same foods and services regardless of their ability to pay.