foodhub Archives - Ecotrust

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Update: The Redd on Salmon Street

We connect with the Redd campus manager, B-Line founder, and our VP of events and engagement for an update on activities at the Redd campus.

Doe Hatfield
March 25, 2020 06 April 2020

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Fresh connections, new opportunities

More than 100 producers, food businesses, advocates, and buyers came together to discuss diversity and dig into the delicious details at the

Aaron Vargas
December 11, 2019 19 December 2019

B Corp Block Party

B Local PDX is excited to bring you our first B Corp Block Party, following the BLD PNW conference. This event is free & open to the public. The goal of the event is for a wide audience to join us and learn about B Corps, celebrate the local B Corp Community, see our vibrant and collaborative B Ecosystem, try out local B Corp products, and have a fun time!

Olivia Bartruff
June 13, 2019 11 June 2019

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

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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