Our good friends at Ned Ludd (who hosted our November event with the women cattle ranchers of Eastern Oregon), have an incredible guest visiting this coming Monday.
Joel Salatin, the American ‘beyond organic’ farmer, lecturer, and author prominently featured in the new documentary, FRESH, as well as in Michael Pollan’s book, [...]

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Over the past two years, we’ve tried to keep you up-to-date on the Urban and Rural Reserves process for the Metro region, which will determine how rural lands are protected at the edges of our Urban Growth Boundary. As the final votes on Washington County Reserves quickly approach, we share this message from our partners [...]

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We don’t normally post employment opportunities, but this particular position is too important for us to let it slide under the radar. Oregon Department of Agriculture is hiring a Farm to School Coordinator, and the application deadline is coming up fast. As Slow Food joins other organizations in continuing to push for school lunch reform, [...]

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By SF Portland Steering Committee Member, Ricky Haas
It never rained on Labor Day, but it never got too hot either; the sun seemed to be playing hide-and-go-seek all day. All in all, I think, we had a nice late-Summer afternoon. As Portlanders, we seem to be extremely sensitive to the vicissitudes of weather, which may [...]

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Peanuts. Pistachios. Popcorn seasoning. Cookie Dough. Greens. Beef. Beef. Beef. Wide-scale outbreaks of foodborne illness of slammed our country this year, leaving legislators scrambling to come up with an appropriate response. Over the last month or so, we’ve begun to see the first steps towards new regulations and laws, but real change has yet to [...]

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The time is certainly ripe for yardsharing and produce swaps - growing numbers of people are seeking out ways to connect with local food and with their neighbors, and the media is taking note. Right after posting our own run-down of yardsharing resources here on the Slow Food PDX blog, the Oregonian ran an article [...]

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To keep up on the latest food policy news and events updates in between blog posts, you can now follow Slow Food Portland on Twitter! From @slowfoodpdx, we’ll be sharing interesting links and other small bites from around the web, ready for your enjoyment. Follow our broadcasts to hear about local food activities, to learn [...]

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Chalk it up to the cultural zeitgeist, but hot-button issues always have a way of percolating up in different mediums and practices at the same time. Let’s say a particularly unique comet makes headlines; wait a month and there will surely be three movies on asteroid apocalypse. I suppose you could call it the “summer [...]

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If you follow along with updates from COMFOOD or any similar food policy listservs, you’ve probably been understandably shocked to find an email in your inbox screaming: “OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING!”  The panicky claims have been so widespread as to earn them an entry on the Snopes rumor database. HR 875 - the bill in question [...]

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Today’s Oregonian ran a feature article on Slow Food Portland and the gradual evolution of the Slow Food Movement! Including interviews with the Oregon Food Bank, the Community Food Security Coalition, and PCUN, the story outlines a bit of Slow Food’s increasing attention to food justice and our local efforts to partner with the organizations [...]

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