Food and Farms Archives - Page 14 of 15 - Ecotrust

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

FoodHub meet market buttons

FoodHub builds a bridge over the urban-rural divide

“We are out on the farm; we’re out in the country. It’s really helpful to have technology that connects us to the cities to be able to sell.” That’s how folks at Unger Farms explained the benefit of using FoodHub …

Carolyn Holland
June 13, 2012 01 October 2014

Growing Power's aquaponics operation in Milwaukie, one of two dozen groups and places featured Douglas Gayeton and "Lexicon of Sustainability."

At the Natural Capital Center: The new faces of food

Douglas Gayeton’s zeitgeisty, alluring photographic compositions of unconventional farmers from all over the country are hanging in the Natural Capital Center. But he has no idea. Or at least, he didn’t, until we contacted him last week to find out …

Oakley Brooks
May 22, 2012 01 October 2014

Author of Change Comes to Dinner, Katherine Gustafson

At the Natural Capital Center: Gustafson brings fresh, hopeful stories to dinner

Katherine Gustafson traveled around the United States seeking working examples of how to build a more sustainable, satisfying, and fair food system. She documented her many stops, the people she met, and the solutions she uncovered in her new book, …

Lola Milholland
May 15, 2012 01 October 2014

Pints of bright red strawberries at a farmers' market

Zoë Bradbury rallies the New Farmers’ Movement

In February 2008, Zoë Bradbury left her job at Ecotrust, where she was a regular contributor to Edible Portland, to start farming on Oregon’s southern coast. Right after leaving us, she wrote, “I pulled up to my new greenhouse on …

Lola Milholland
May 7, 2012 01 October 2014

Aerial of forest land

Future We Want: Local food sovereignty, not land grabs

Most successful means of resistance to land grabbing have been local initiatives for sustainable land use.

Noah Enelow
April 25, 2012 13 March 2020

Indian woman in field.

At the Natural Capital Center: Dr. Vandana Shiva, seed freedom fighter

On May 3, Ecotrust has the distinct honor of hosting a benefit luncheon with Dr. Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s leaders in the fight to save native seeds. At the heart of Dr. Shiva’s work is the connection between …

Lola Milholland
April 23, 2012 01 October 2014

Preschoolers eating homemade, homegrown lunch at New Day School

Why is pink slime an option for schools?

Stacey Sobell
March 28, 2012 15 January 2020