foodhub Archives - Ecotrust

young girls hands hold freshly picked rainbow chard

Connecting the dots from farm to school

The Oregon Harvest for Schools online portal matches school food buyers with regional producers of Oregon-grown fruits and veggies.

Dory Athey
May 20, 2015 20 May 2015

bunches of red radishes piled up on newspaper

Helping farmers write wholesale success stories

Trainings on how to get your produce to market.

Amanda Oborne
February 11, 2014 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

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

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FoodHub goes East to build distribution network with OR FoodEx

FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online food marketplace, and Boston-based social venture OR FoodEx announced today their intention to partner on a new joint venture designed to overcome the single biggest barrier to building robust regional food economies: distribution. The new venture will …

Oakley Brooks
October 3, 2012 01 October 2014

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FoodHub infographic captures local food/tech landscape

The team behind FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online marketplace that helps local food buyers and sellers connect, has just released Local Food/Tech Landscape, an interactive guide to innovation at the intersection of local food and technology. As Amanda Oborne, FoodHub’s director put …

Oakley Brooks
September 26, 2012 01 October 2014

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

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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

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