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New dollars to help deepen farm to school impact in Oregon

Ecotrust is awarded a new USDA grant to support the Oregon Farm to School program.

Megan Foucht
November 20, 2013 01 October 2014

Oregon designates $1.2 million for local food in schools

“We envision a day not too far off, when schools across our state will be serving meals sourced primarily from Oregon’s bounty.” In the session concluded on July 8, the Legislature awarded nearly $1.2 million for Farm to School and …

Stacey Sobell
July 12, 2013 01 October 2014

Empowering school food directors to buy local

Four years ago, under the fluorescent lights of the Salem Conference Center, I stood at a table heaped with Oregon apples free for the taking, trying to catch the eyes of some 300 school district food service staff. I found …

Stacey Sobell
June 20, 2013 01 October 2014

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

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

Two children walking towards a lettuce patch.

New Farm to School grants put local foods in Oregon students’ lunches

The Oregon Department of Education has announced that eleven school districts are the recipients of competitive Farm to School and School Garden grants totaling $189,140. The majority of the funds (87.5%) will be spent on purchasing Oregon food products, with …

Lola Milholland
January 25, 2013 17 March 2015

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 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

Preschoolers eating homemade, homegrown lunch at New Day School

Why is pink slime an option for schools?

By Katy Pelissier and Stacey Sobell You’ve heard about pink slime by now. We here at Ecotrust Farm to School are just as tired of it as you are. But we’re still paying attention, because while major buyers including Fred …

Stacey Sobell
March 28, 2012 01 October 2014

Former Ecotrust VP Kane heads USDA Farm to School program

NEWS RELEASE — Portland, Ore. February 2, 2012 — Former Ecotrust Vice President of Food and Farms Deborah Kane was today named head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm to School initiative. Kane will draw on extensive experience building …

Oakley Brooks
February 2, 2012 01 October 2014