With the help of a $250,000 grant from the Ocean Protection Council and support from environmental nonprofit Ecotrust, SFCFA also has been able to lease a warehouse on Pier 45 to store its catch, as well as invest in a hoist, freezers and fork trucks.
The third annual Oregon Berry Festival returns to the Ecotrust Building in the Pearl District this weekend, featuring pies, cobblers and jams, as well as children’s activities and live entertainment.
Ecotrust’s fourth annual Sundown at Ecotrust concert series begins this evening with Onuinu — disco-pop, disco-hop, electronic-groove — at Ecotrust’s Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center.
An article in the latest issue of Edible Portland tells the story of Minto Island Growers, a farm outside of Salem that started Oregon’s first tea plot in 1989.
Oregon had major cause to celebrate this past July, when after years of advocacy and education on the part of school districts, food producers, and community partners, state lawmakers voted unanimously to allocate over $1 million in funding to farm to school and school garden programs.
Most investment funds that own woodlands make their money when the trees are cut down and carted off. Ecotrust Forest Management, based in Portland, Ore., also profits from the natural habitat left untouched in the forest.
Ecotrust revealed this morning it will spin out its marine consulting group into a company called Point 97. The entity will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecotrust.
When Portland’s Ecotrust, the environmentally and socially focused non-profit, this month spun out Point 97 as a for-profit subsidiary, it contributed to the increasing hybridization of the non-profit world.
