Work - Ecotrust

We partner with local communities across the Northwest to put bold, transformative ideas into action.

Check out some of our recent projects here.

Two white lambs look toward the camera, in a grassy field with trees in the background

Ag of the Middle Accelerator

Our accelerator program designed for small to mid-size food producers.

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Local Link

An annual event that connects wholesale food buyers with local producers

About 20 or so piles of lumber, some stacked at least a couple stories high, are in an outdoor dirt lot, with a glimpse of snowy mountains and trees in the background.

New Markets Tax Credits

New Markets Tax Credits support public-private investments, with a focus on our triple-bottom-line goals.

Two women on horseback in a rural setting, one wearing a white cowboy hat and holding a microphone

Rural Reporting Fellowship

Supporting local storytelling in rural communities.

The Redd on Salmon Street

A working hub for the regional food economy

Growing the tribal forestry workforce

Creating a path for tribal youth interested in forestry careers

Middle school age girl hugs freshly harvested kohlrabi

Farm to School Advocacy

Uniting to support HB2579

Portland Green Workforce Collaborative

Addressing economic injustice through green jobs training

A man pours grain feed into a blue bucket

Ag of the Middle

Local food at scale

Climate-Smart Forestry

Linking forest to frame

Next-generation
fishing communities

Supporting healthy, working waterfronts

aerial view of forests and rivers. stunning greens and blues. wild. british columbia

Forest Planner

Our online tool supports smart, long-range planning for forest landowners

Portrait of 2014 ILA awardee

Indigenous
Leadership Award

Celebrating Indigenous leaders since 2001.

Farm to School Counts

Measuring the impact of providing local food to Oregon students

old, stained piece of paper that advertises the "Portland Truck Terminal". From the 1930's.

Natural Capital Center

Rebuilding a 100-year-old warehouse

A pig grazing in a pasture

Local proteins

Changing the way we think about center-of-the-plate proteins

Aerial view of a small wooded island in the midst of still blue water with wisps of clouds. Northern British Columbia.

Maps that matter

20 years of connecting people and place

illustrations of six agricultural products in bright blue circles

Cascadia Foodshed Financing Project

Investing in the Pacific Northwest food economy

Tumble weed reflected in a puddle of water, resting inside a concrete irrigation channel in the Klamath.

Climate-smart planning tools

Spatial information to help decision makers

Single salmon swimming along the shore of a still green lake

Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative

Supporting watershed restoration for salmon and communities.

Children at New Day School in SE Portland are laughing and eating lunch at a wooden table.

Farm to School

For more than 10 years, we've worked with schools to provide healthy, local food to students.

Restoring the Siuslaw River estuary

Restoring Waite Ranch as a tidally-influenced wetland habitat on the lower Siuslaw River

Keystone XL: An alternative jobs strategy

Creating jobs & protecting the climate

A view of the Sand Lake estuary from above. A large sandy area with a river running through it and opening into the ocean.

Protecting Sand Lake

Permanent conservation for one of the last intact coastal estuaries

Aerial view of a building, the Bullitt Center, with solar panels on the roof. A city skyline, Seattle, is in the background.

The Bullitt Center

Cities are central to ecosystem health and the Bullitt Center demonstrates why.

Satellite map of the mid-Atlantic coastline with a heavy distribution of colored dots, representing coldwater coral distribution.

Blue Tools: Ocean health and inclusive mapping

Meeting the challenges of ocean planning

Portland viewed across the Willamette River.

Partnering with nature

Identifying the living city of the future

Redd Reveal!

Thank you for joining us for the Redd on Salmon Street's grand opening celebration

Creek at the edge of green valley.

Priorities

A foundation for custom-built, rapidly deployable decision making and data visualization tools

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Food Forums: Engaging in Our Food System

An event series designed to engage leaders in digging deeply into the challenges of our regional food system

Underground Airwaves

A podcast archiving the voices of our food community

a mix of colorful vegetables on a yellow background: bok choy, watermelon radish, red cabbage, kale, a turnip, brussel sprouts, broccoli

FoodHub helped set the stage for connections

Our online platform that connected farmers, ranchers, and fishermen with wholesale food buyers.

Illustration of Vicky Hertel and her son, Chris, receiving the 2014 Local Hero Award for farm

Local Hero Awards

Meet six local food heroes who are changing the way we eat — one seed, fruit, and supper at a time.