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Food and Farms

Empowering school food directors to buy local

For the last three years, we’ve transformed the entrance to this conference into a hall of Oregon ranchers and fishermen, farmers and food.

Stacey Sobell
June 20, 2013 10 February 2020

Edible Portland: In league with the bees

After reading the cover story in our summer issue, I found myself sitting in my yard, early in the morning, video recording a bumble bee suckling from a purple sage flower. What I had learned from Kerry Newberry’s feature about …

Lola Milholland
June 13, 2013 29 July 2016

Fish farming for our future

Editor’s note: Ecotrust does not currently engage in work related to aquaculture, but we recognize that there is valuable dialogue to be held around this topic.  As always, we welcome discussion in the comment section below. By Mark J. Spalding …

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May 20, 2013 01 October 2014

Carbon action behind enemy lines

By Sarah Pope Lets play the guessing game! If I were to tell you there was a state that had passed legislation establishing a carbon sequestration program granting statutory authority for a state agency to verify carbon sequestration practices over …

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May 16, 2013 04 August 2015

Close-up of gourmet pizza.

Local wheat in school pizza? It’s back to class for Oregon farmers

  Farm to School typically brings to mind fruits and vegetables — a bowl of bright red apples, or a salad bar station. But for Tom and Sue Hunton, owners of Hunton’s Farm and Camas Country Mill, located southwest of …

Lola Milholland
May 6, 2013 01 October 2014

Side of fishing boat named Helen

Diving out of the ivory tower, fisherman organizes on the docks

Fishermen are talking together more, working through issues, and coming up with resolutions.

Emma Deans
May 3, 2013 10 February 2020

Clouds rising above a field.

Documenting culture as it vanishes: The People of Clouds

On April 26th and 27th, Ecotrust and Blue Earth Alliance will co-host Collaborations for Cause, a national gathering of photographers, NGOs, activists, and communications professionals, to discuss the collaborative future of storytelling.  Panelists include experts from top-notch firms like Wieden+Kennedy …

Emma Deans
April 15, 2013 29 July 2016

A school of shiny mackerel fish swimming.

True story: How a fish went to school

Enter FoodHub. Mack searched the online directory FoodHub, Ecotrust’s network that connects food buyers and sellers. She found Lyf Gildersleeve of Flying Fish Company. Gildersleeve fishmongers from a 176 square foot shack on Southeast Hawthorne in Portland. He set Mack …

Emma Deans
April 10, 2013 01 October 2014

A crate full of ripe raspberries and blackberries.

Ecotrust names Oborne new Director of Food and Farms

“After a national search that yielded an impressive candidate pool, we were pleased to discover that the best candidate was right here in our midst,” Scholz said. Oborne joined FoodHub as sales and marketing director in 2010 and took over …

Oakley Brooks
March 28, 2013 18 March 2016

A group of fishermen changing boats on a river by a snowy mountain.

Shedding false labels: ThisFish tracking seafood to the source

With close to 30 seafood harvesters,  and several large trade groups and retailers now partnering with ThisFish across Canada, the app is now gaining more acceptance. British Columbia officials delivered funding this week to promote it and make it more …

Oakley Brooks
March 14, 2013 29 July 2016

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