Stinkfest Queens and Ecotrust present: The Annual 2025 Portland Fermentation Festival! Sample fermented foods and beverages, get tips and recipes from professional and amateur makers. Categories include: Pickled Vegetables - Kraut - Meat / Fish Liquid - Dairy - Solid Dairy - Liquid: Non-alcohol / Alcohol - Soy Ferments (Tempeh, Natto, Miso) and Other! Admission […]

Raise your glass, raise your voice, and help raise critical funds for Oregon’s wild places! This year’s event will be a spirited celebration of the wildlands and wildlife that unite and inspire, because joy and fun are powerful forms of resistance and fuel for a movement! Call of the Wild is a memorable evening of […]

Join an intimate conversation with Alicia Kennedy and Soleil Ho over break bites, coffee, tea and low-proof morning cocktails about food media and independent publishing! Your ticket includes: Coffee, tea, breakfast bites, low-proof cocktails Conversation with Q&A Opportunity to meet/mingle after the event with Alicia & Solei

Inspired by your favorite cooking shows, guest chefs create dishes from surprise ingredients (from woman-owned brands!) in front of a live audience and judges guess what’s in the dish. Featuring Chefs Claudette Zepeda, Fatou Ouattara (AKADI) and surprise local PDX judges, this is culinary chaos you won’t want to miss! Your ticket includes: Live Chef […]

It’s not a Roux Week without the popular Powerhouse Panel! Sold out every year, this year’s conversation is focused around the immigrant story in the restaurants, kitchens and the f&b industry. Moderated by Jenn Chávez of OPB. Your ticket includes: Panel Discussion with Q&A Food from Sesame Collective Speciality cocktails & NA drink offerings Opportunity […]

Learn from some of the best Portland CPG founders about what it takes to go from startup to shelf! This discussion centers around the challenges and opportunities of scaling a small product business in a values-driven, founder-led, Portland-rooted way. Panelists include Junea Rocha, Brazi Bites, Christy Goldsby, Honey Mama's. Nikki Guerrero, Hot Mama Salsa, Lee […]

A celebration of the determination, wisdom, and continuum of Indigenous leadership Join us on October 15 to celebrate six leaders and one group who will be recognized for their service to community, culture, and Indigenous sovereignty. About the Indigenous Leadership Awards Since 2001, the Indigenous Leadership Awards have recognized more than 80 extraordinary leaders from across the […]

Join OPB and NACF for an evening of Indigenous food, culture, and art. See Bigfoot through the eyes of Indigenous peoples of the Nch'i-Wána (Columbia River), in this advance screening of OPB’s “Guardian of the Land.” Pacific Northwest tribes know Bigfoot not as a monster but as a protector – a spiritual being that walks […]