When was the last time you thought about the biodiversity of your diet? For the Slow Food Movement, protecting and defending the biodiversity of cherished food products is a top priority. One of the ways this work manifests is through the online catalog The Ark of Taste.
Read MoreIt was hard to find a seat at the April Convivium, as people filled up Portland Cookshop for “Olive Oil: Field Notes from Oregon and Italy,” featuring local food friends Jim Dixon of Wellspent Market and Paul Durant of Durant Vineyards and Durant Olive Mill.
Read MoreOregon is a great place for farming, with rich soils and a (mostly!) benevolent climate, and visitors and residents enjoy the resulting bounty of local food, other farm products, farmers markets, and agritourism. However, development and other pressures threaten our farming communities and make it harder for those who don’t already own land to continue this legacy.
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