Written by Brady Walen, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Coordinator & Jen Michaelis Van Arkel, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Committee Member
Over the past several months, Slow Food chapters around the country have been promoting the Time for Lunch campaign in an effort to provide children with real food at school. Locally, Slow [...]

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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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This urgent call-to-action comes from Deborah Kane and our partners at Ecotrust Food & Farms
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There is a bill pending in the Oregon legislature that would make is possible for us to get better food into public schools across the state - HB 2800. You can read all about the bill and on-going advocacy efforts here: [...]

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Image courtesy of Flickr user GeoFX
After watching last night’s preview screening of Food, Inc, the pressing question from those in attendance was, “How can we affect policy change that will help small farmers?” In response, Steve Cohen, of Portland’s Food Policy Council, implored the audience to get involved in setting the city’s urban growth boundary. [...]

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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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You just can’t escape it - the importance of food is a subject on everyone’s lips. On Wednesday, in the New York Times, native-son (he’s from Yamhill!) Nicholas Kristoff railed against the status-quo at the USDA. In anticipation of Obama’s upcoming Secretary of Agriculture announcement, Kristoff wrote that during the last few administrations, oversight of [...]

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Barack Obama may just be the most popular man in America right now. After all, if you were President-Elect, don’t you think that you too would have people lined up for a chance to voice their ideas for the coming administration? Shrewdly, the next President has already set up a website where citizens can write [...]

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We, the undersigned, believe that a healthy food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time. …
The quality of food, and not just its quantity, ought to guide our agriculture. The ways we grow, distribute, and prepare food should celebrate our various cultures and our shared humanity, providing not only sustenance, [...]

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