Our friends at the wonderful Zenger Farm are holding a springtime fundraiser in support of their educational programs. Between March 14 and 20, a slew of local restaurants and nurseries will donate some of their proceeds to Zenger. A few of these sound pretty good to us… So keep up the great work, guys!

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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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Photo: Adelante Mujeres
This week, The Oregonian ran a short article about an exciting pilot program taking off in Forest Grove. The new program - which is run by the Hispanic women’s development group Adelante Mujeres -  provides and farm land and training to Latinos who’d like to practice organic agriculture. While Latinos make up an [...]

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Kathy teaches transplants. Photo: Oregon Tilth.

You might be thinking that it’s too early to planning for next year’s harvest, but Oregon Tilth is already booking out their gardening classes for 2010! Each year, Oregon Tilth hosts a broad lineup of courses for beginning and advanced gardeners alike. Their workshops cover subjects including year-round gardening, intensive [...]

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James McWilliams, food movement skeptic and author of the new book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, recently took his argument to the New York Times, where he blogged about his feeling that local eating might be elitist. In [...]

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This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we hope that you’ll join us in the audience for the Portland premiere of Ingredients, a new film about our current food system, and how we can get back to its healthier, tastier roots. It’s a very Portland story that not only chronicles the nationwide issues affecting the way we [...]

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Local Slow Food Portland Chapter Member Cristin Couzens recently discovered the Jimmy Nardello Pepper from Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste. In this guest post, she recounts her chile history, along with the chile’s own story. For more of her vegetable musings, you can visit her blog: theweeklyveggie.com

The first time I ate a fajita was [...]

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In last week’s Oregonian FOODday section, writer Leslie Cole ran an even-handed article entitled, “Which price is right?” The piece ran a simple price comparison between the same set of groceries purchased from a farmer’s market, through a CSA, at the progressive Portland-area grocer New Seasons, and at the employee-owned discount chain Costco. Her results? [...]

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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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Guest post by Katherine Deumling, Slow Food Regional Governor for Oregon and a member of the Slow Food USA Board of Directors
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What is at stake in this year’s critical, long-term planning for urban and rural space in our tri-county region?

Yesterday, I testified on behalf of Slow Food Portland before the Reserves Steering Committee at Metro. [...]

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