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Children enjoying lunch at New Day School, Portland

Accelerating farm to preschool

With resources and support, child care providers will connect more children and families with healthy, local foods.

Stacey Sobell
May 13, 2014 01 October 2014

Two women volunteers for the Portland Fruit Tree Project are holding the lacross stick-like batons used to harvest apples. They are gathering the excess bounty in an orchard as part of a harvest party.

Meet local food hero nominees

Interviews with this year's Local Hero Award nominees offer a deeper and closer look at businesses that are changing the face of food

Lola Milholland
May 1, 2014 01 October 2014

Black and white staff photo from 1977 of the Rough and Ready Lumber Mill Co. Over 100 peope are sitting outside together with the mill in the background. Smiling, sunny, warm.

Rough & Ready teams with Ecotrust to reopen Southern Oregon mill

Local lumber mill reopens, providing needed jobs and services.

Oakley Brooks
March 7, 2014 01 October 2014

A lone canoe crossing a wetland before an icy mountain.

We’ve got some stories for you

This spring, Ecotrust is excited to unveil two exciting new storytelling venues. First, we will be launching a completely redesigned website offering new ways for you to explore our latest work, partnerships, and events here at the Natural Capital Center. …

Carolyn Holland
February 20, 2014 01 October 2014

Mushroom fanatics, on film

Three videos exploring the lives of local mushroom fanatics!

Lola Milholland
October 17, 2013 29 July 2016

Meyer Memorial Trust invests at home — in Ecotrust Forests

Meyer Memorial Trust took the exciting step of investing $1 million of its endowment in one of EFM’s forest funds. The funds are for-profit ecosystem investment vehicle that manages Northwest forestland to enhance forest health and productivity while creating reliable …

Oakley Brooks
September 30, 2013 01 October 2014

High time for tea

Oregon’s newly budding tea industry is showing signs of a hopeful future. With growing enterprises like Tao of Tea interested in localizing their supply chain the demand for tea production in Oregon could reach to new heights and bring pioneering …

Megan Foucht
September 4, 2013 01 October 2014

Edible Portland: In league with the bees

After reading the cover story in our summer issue, I found myself sitting in my yard, early in the morning, video recording a bumble bee suckling from a purple sage flower. What I had learned from Kerry Newberry’s feature about …

Lola Milholland
June 13, 2013 29 July 2016

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

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