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Zoetrop sign from Mushroom Fair

In Portland: Get fungi

Dark and damp. These iconic qualities make the Pacific Northwest a perfect home for a teeming wealth of fungi and a rich community of mushroom experts. Both often exist just out of sight, despite contributing to our region’s liveliness, culture …

Oakley Brooks
November 29, 2012 01 October 2014

Legislators taste a whole new lunch

To celebrate Farm to School Month, dozens of Oregon legislators headed to school cafeterias this October to check out what's new on the menu

Lola Milholland
November 2, 2012 01 October 2014

A woman at the farmers' market picks up a copy of the latest issue of Edible Portland magazine

At the Portland Farmers Market: Seed Freedom Summit

On November 6, Californians will vote on whether to require foods containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to be labeled. People around the country are paying close attention to the measure; many believe it will result in GMO labeling across the …

Lola Milholland
October 19, 2012 01 October 2014

FoodHub meet market buttons

FoodHub goes East to build distribution network with OR FoodEx

FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online food marketplace, and Boston-based social venture OR FoodEx announced today their intention to partner on a new joint venture designed to overcome the single biggest barrier to building robust regional food economies: distribution. The new venture will …

Oakley Brooks
October 3, 2012 01 October 2014

blue sky, green grass, illustration, simple

FoodHub infographic captures local food/tech landscape

The team behind FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online marketplace that helps local food buyers and sellers connect, has just released Local Food/Tech Landscape, an interactive guide to innovation at the intersection of local food and technology. As Amanda Oborne, FoodHub’s director put …

Oakley Brooks
September 26, 2012 01 October 2014

Three crabs on ice

Food that makes you go (h)mmm

Lola Milholland
September 4, 2012 07 October 2019

Billy Frank, Jr. hauling salmon into a crate from a river boat

Billy Frank, Jr.:
River revolutionary

Ecotrust mourns the loss of Billy Frank, Jr., who passed away this morning. He has been our founding inspiration, and we honor his legacy and commitment to his homeland and people. —Editor, May 5, 2014 In Indian Country, Billy Frank, …

Oakley Brooks
August 30, 2012 01 October 2014

a close up of multi-colored eggs brown, tan, and green, in a black wire basket

FoodHub spreads the love of local food across the Pacific Northwest

For those of us who live here, the oft-celebrated agricultural productivity in the Pacific Northwest provides residents with some of the best fruits, vegetables, meats and dairy to hit our plates and palates. In Portland, legions of adventurous eaters flock …

Adrien Schless-Meier
August 8, 2012 01 October 2014

A Latino farmer and her children work a booth at the Forest Grove farmers' market

Latino community farmers feasting on new market: school lunch

In 2010, the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres saw a clear challenge when the Latino farmers on its 12-acre La Esperanza Farm in the city of Forest Grove, Ore. continued to struggle selling their abundant harvests. Adelante Mujeres provides courses in sustainable …

Lola Milholland
August 1, 2012 01 October 2014

A farmers' market in a small town in the Columbia River Gorge

Going local in the Gorge

While the Columbia Gorge is rich in orchards and wheat fields, local food makes up only 1% of the diet of residents in the five-county area straddling the Columbia River between Hood River, Oregon, and Goldendale, Washington. The majority of …

Laura Ford
June 29, 2012 01 October 2014