EASTSIDE EGG CO-OPERATIVE
Fifty Chickens and a Grand Idea
By Angela Sanders
Spring 2008
Eastside Egg Co-operative member and two Barred Rock hens.
Photo by John Valls
Edible Portland Magazine: Spring 2008 Issue
Early on a November morning when it was still dark, fourteen members of the Eastside Egg Co-operative braved the driving rain to gather at Zenger Farm. They [...]
Article by Lizzy Caston, from the Edible Portland Magazine
Photo by N. Scott Trimble
Bijou Café staff dump the contents of an indoor compost bin into a larger, outdoor bin to be picked up by their garbage hauler.
How Portland deals with its trash is changing — residentially and commercially. In May [...]
Written by Zoe Bradbury, from Our Friends at Edible Portland Magazine
Zoë Bradbury left her urban job in Portland to start farming on the south coast of Oregon. She’s blogging here about her experiences. Below is her fifth entry in Diary of a Young Farmer.
As Zoe experiences the springtime cash flow crisis, the USDA [...]
By Ellen Jackson; Photo by David Loveall
This article reprinted courtesy of Edible Portland Magazine
Related Video Story: Green Green Beans
As a cook, I have an uneasy relationship with canned foods. Other than the small, silver foil-wrapped tins of LeSueur Early Peas, for which I’ll admit a three-year-old’s fondness, not much of what I [...]
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Courtesy of our friends at Edible Portland Magazine
Fall 2007 Issue: In Search of the Elusive Mushroom
By Ellen Jackson
Chanterelles grow exuberantly in the Northwest, and the golden (or yellow) variety is easy to find and identify—if you can persuade someone in the know to tell you where exactly to look. Wild mushroom hunting is a [...]
Edible Portland Magazine: Winter 2008 Issue
by Kevin Allman
In 2007, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski and several members of Congress took the “food stamp challenge”: shopping and eating on a $21 per week budget that represented the average American’s food-stamp allotment. Kulongoski and his fellow politicians met with limited success; some managed the challenge, while others [...]
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