Updated 5/15 - Steve Cohen of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability gives credit to the many volunteers involved
Updated 5/5 - Portland Mercury reports on the planting ceremony with photos

All around town, gardeners’ spring sprouts are pushing through the soil and, as first reported in last week’s Oregonian, Portland City Hall will be joining in [...]

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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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What is this “oneness,” you ask? It’s community, it’s participation, it’s equality, it’s tradition, and it’s environmental awareness. Frankly, it has a lot in common with our mission here at Slow Food. And it’s also the guiding principle of the Global Oneness Project, an initiative to promote meaningful change in our world by documenting and [...]

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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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From filmmaker Robert Kenner, with the help of Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, comes an unflinching exposé of our industrial food system. Food, Inc. takes a pointed look at the large agribusiness corporations who, with the virtual consent of the FDA and USDA, have created a nationwide health crisis, allowed alarmingly regular outbreaks of food [...]

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Photo courtesy of David Bacon
Last year at Slow Food Nation, some of the most deeply affecting moments came during the panel on farmworker justice, “A New, Fair Food System.” Moderated by Eric Schlosser, the session brought together members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the ILWU, CAUSE, and California Rural Legal Assistance to discuss the [...]

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It’s not very often that we post about Italy here on the Slow Food Portland blog. While we love our Italian founders (and we’re quite partial to Italian cooking), we feel that American eating deserves just as much attention. We might be young here, but we’re pretty scrappy, and we have our own, unique culture [...]

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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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Bristol Bay, Alaska is perhaps the world’s largest and most sustainable wild salmon fishery. For centuries, the watershed’s plentiful stocks have supported the region’s native population, and today its natural resources sustain a commercial fishing industry and draw sport fishermen from around the world. But since the 80s, the area has been under exploration for [...]

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