Think & Drink

Thanks to Eloise Holland at Oregon Humanities  Oregon Humanities hosts a happy-hour series, called Think & Drink, which sparks provocative conversations about big ideas. This week, Think & Drink features a conversation about food, led by Robert Paarlberg, professor of political science at Wellesley College and author of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know; and [...]

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Pick a Pepper

By Jaret Foster, Senior Market Manager of Portland Farmers Market A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of being invited to attend a sweet pepper tasting conducted by my friend Lane Selman. Lane works with the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative (NOVIC) cultivating, among other things, sweet pepper varieties on several Willamette Valley [...]

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Farm to Fork

Every once in a while, you get to witness something special—and if you’re really lucky, you realize it while it is happening.  This was definitely the case for the 100 or so guests that gathered at Wealth Underground Farm on a recent Saturday evening for Farm to Fork Events’ first Portland area farm dinner. The [...]

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Fresh Exchange Fundraisers

What is Fresh Exchange? Fresh Exchange matches food stamp dollars spent by SNAP participants—up to $5 per market per week—at our Buckman and King Markets.  The program allows these shoppers to double their power to buy healthy, fresh food for their families. In turn, those customers are using their purchases to support the local food [...]

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Healthy Food For All

Each year, through the Farm Direct Nutrition Program (FDNP), federal funds are distributed to eligible seniors in the form of vouchers that can be used to purchase locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables directly from authorized farmers at farm stands and farmers markets. In 2010, FDNP provided nearly 30,000 seniors with fresh food and generated over [...]

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Around the Community–December Events

Hawthorne Boulevard Holiday Stroll Thu. 12/9 6-9pm SE Hawthorne Blvd. Free Admission The 1st Annual Hawthorne Holiday Stroll features extended business hours for Hawthorne merchants, live music and entertainment, complimentary snacks and hot drinks, neighborhood carolers, and kid friendly festivities–the Bagdad is showing free Holiday Family Movies from 6-8 PM, with free popcorn for the [...]

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Around the Community–November Events

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) and Dreyer’s/Edy’s Fruit Bars are planting orchards across the country in a collaborative program called Communities Take Root (CTR). Through this exciting program, communities compete in a nation-wide vote to win a complete community orchard. FTPF orchards are a wonderful way for communities to grow fresh fruit for the [...]

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Around the Community–October Events

Food and Farm ForumWednesday, 10/6  6–8:30pmLucky Lab Brewing Co. 915 SE Hawthorne, Portland A free and public event sponsored by Friends of Family Farmers and OSALT, designed to give you an opportunity to talk directly to House District candidates about what you think they need to know about food and agriculture. There will be a [...]

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Food Front Cooperative Grocery

Beyond Food, To Community Scan the shelves and produce section at Food Front and you’ll notice a surprising number of locally grown or made products—from chips to cherries, from popsicles to parsnips. This happens to be one of Food Front’s missions—to connect with local farmers and food purveyors and to source their fruits and vegetables [...]

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Around the Community–September Events

Olympic Provisions Peach-Fed Pigs Butchery Class 9/12, 2-5pm Olympic Provisions, 107 SE Washington Due to popular demand, join Elias Cairo and Olympic Provisions for butchery class number two: Baird Family Orchards peach-fed pigs, butchery basics and the art of making fresh sausage. Eli and his right-hand man, Josh Graves (formerly of Fleischer’s Meats), will go [...]

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