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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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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Photo courtesy of Flickr user chalkdog
If you want proof that kids already know right from wrong, just look to Madison, Wisconsin, where fourth-grade students organized to take a stand against the poor school lunch program. As told by Slow Food USA, the students of Nuestro Mundo Elementary School planned to share a home-cooked meal as [...]

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A few weeks ago, we received two fascinating letters from Slow Food member Gwen Meyer, who along with her husband, John Neumeister of Cattail Creek Lamb, was a 2004 and 2006 Terra Madre conference delegate. In 2002, Gwen founded Friends of Kenya Schools and Wildlife, a group which provides educational supplies to rural Kenyan schools, [...]

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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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Updated: Video from the Washington Post added below.

Photo: Whitehouse.gov
It certainly has a different ring to it than “Rose garden press conference,” doesn’t it? As reported in the New York Times, First Lady Michelle Obama will be breaking ground Friday morning on a White House vegetable garden.
The Obamas will feed their love of Mexican food with [...]

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Patrick Alan Coleman, Food Editor for the Portland Mercury, had a chance this week to interview Bryant Terry about his work and upcoming Slow Food Portland event.
At 35, Terry has fond memories of growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, with grandparents from rural Mississippi who “practically converted their backyard garden into an urban farm—every bit of [...]

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As one of the largest organic certifiers in the nation, Oregon Tilth runs a series of programs focused on education and advocacy for sustainable food systems. At the end of February (26-28), they will be presenting Organicology, a major organic foods conference, right here in Portland. In addition to organic trade booths, workshops and info [...]

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Last Monday, Slow Food Portland members had a chance to hear some of the stories from October’s Terra Madre conference, told by our local delegates. Their tales ranged from acerbically funny accounts of “lost-in-translation” experiences to more poignant stories of the cultures they encountered. A common thread for many delegates was the overwhelming - and [...]

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… there were people everywhere. Different languages being spoken and sung, instruments playing, signs in umpteen different languages. It sounded more like a beehive than a conference, if the bees played xylophone …
If you were lucky enough to share in the dinner fundraisers organized last August, then you’ve already had the joy of hearing a [...]

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