2023 - Year in Review

Looking back we had a good year in 2023!

We continued to financially support the Market Scouts youth education program at the Lents International Farmers Market with a $2000 contribution.

Thanks to Cookshop, where we hold our Conviviums. Cookshop offers a range of delicious cooking classes for adults and youth, as well as hosting a variety of community events.

BIG thanks to Aviation Gin for the Negroni Week fundraiser complete with distillery tours and Negroni flight tastings that resulted in raising $2110 for Slow Food Portland!

Following is a recap of our activities in 2023

• We hosted the 2023 Oregon Legislative Session Agriculture Policy Primer Convivium in partnership with Friends of Family Farmers (FoFF).

• We tabled at the Pacific Northwest CSA Coalition’s Share Fair.

• We hosted the Indigenous Salmon Fishing Convivium featuring Native Candy, a
  Native-owned business dedicated to traditional harvesting practices and providing the local community direct access to tribally caught wild salmon.

• We hosted a Cooking Demo Convivium featuring Elsy Dinvil, chef and owner of Creole Me Up.

• We tabled at the Eat Drink Washington County Farmer + Chef Connection event.

• We hosted the Getting to Know Our Agricultural Working Lands Convivium with Aaron Nichols, full-time farmer at Stoneboat Farm, and Sam Diaz, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Oregon.

• We gave a presentation in the IMAX theater & tabled at the OMSI After Dark Pickle It event.

• We organized a Farm Tour of The Growers Grange, a small farm in Corbett, Oregon, run by Bianca Nati and Ethan Riddle.

• We hosted the Book Launch for The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods that Define the United States with local author Giselle Kennedy Lord.

• We hosted our Annual Community Potluck.

• We tabled at the Great Grains event.

• Thanks again to Aviation Gin for the amazing Negroni Week (month long) Fundraiser!

• We enthused about beans at How Have You BEAN? the 2nd annual celebration of legumes in partnership with La Merenda Farm and Wellspent Market.

• We hosted the Big Wild Spirits Vermouth Tasting Convivium in December.