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Setting sun on a ranch

Summer, agriculture, and the “genius of place”

We need the sustenance that farmers provide, but we can’t continue to obtain it by undermining the processes that support life on the planet

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July 2, 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

aerial view of a densely forested area with a small creek running through

Wyden bill offers real promise, through ecological forestry

Oregon needs to put our forest communities to work and to restore ecological health to our forests.

Brent Davies
November 26, 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

Empowered to Succeed: How tribes can unlock new capital to grow in Indian Country

By Dave Castillo “How is it that the United States can put a man on the moon but not a bank on an Indian Reservation?” A version of this question was asked by a tribal official in 1999 during the …

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August 29, 2013 01 October 2014

Ecotrust Forest Management named to “Best for Environment” list

Today, Ecotrust Forest Management was named “Best for the Environment” as one of the top performers among B Corporations worldwide. Sixty-three companies across 30 industries and 11 countries were recognized by the nonprofit B Lab, with the release of the …

Oakley Brooks
May 29, 2013 01 October 2014

Side of fishing boat named Helen

Diving out of the ivory tower, fisherman organizes on the docks

Stephanie Mutz was on track to becoming a professor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in tropical marine biology from James Cook University in Australia. But while …

Emma Deans
May 3, 2013 01 October 2014

A farmers' market in a small town in the Columbia River Gorge

Going local in the Gorge

While the Columbia Gorge is rich in orchards and wheat fields, local food makes up only 1% of the diet of residents in the five-county area straddling the Columbia River between Hood River, Oregon, and Goldendale, Washington. The majority of …

Laura Ford
June 29, 2012 01 October 2014

Spencer Beebe stands in a Northwest forest

Rio: Let’s unleash the power of people back home

I recently stopped by an old stage coach stop on the Paradise Bench in northeastern Oregon, with my son Sam and our editor, Gary Miranda. We were surrounded by old buildings: a crumbling hotel given way to swallow nests, a …

Spencer B. Beebe
June 22, 2012 01 October 2014