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Lively and relevant information on sustainable living from a variety of contributors.
Michael Pollan on Tom Vilsack Appointment to Head Agriculture Department
There was an old commercial on television once (does anyone remember it?), “when E.F. Hutton talks, people listen” and a noisy room would instantly go quiet as the wise investment advisor spoke. Boy, has that pendulum shifted! Today, when Michael Pollan talks about food, people listen. Or, let’s hope they do!. On NPR this morning, [...]
OPB Calling: Think Out Loud
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) new radio show, Think Out Loud, is an informative one hour show that delves into the Portland, Oregon politics, culture, and leading edge issues of the day, sometimes covering topics about food and sustainability. I just received a notice from them that they will be having an interesting topic this Thursday, [...]
A City Looks Toward Defining Its Future
Damascus, Oregon (population: 10,000) ponders how to integrate existing urban agriculture into its future urban fabric. Damascus, Oregon is located about 20 miles southeast of Portland, incorporating the surrounding communities of Damascus and Carver to become a city in 2004. It occupies roughly 10,000 acres (16 miles); now designated inside the Portland Metropolitan urban growth [...]
Waste Not: From Commercial Trash to Garden Gold
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 2008, Portland households [...]
Diary of a Young Farmer: April’s Cash Crop
As a young farmer experiences the springtime cash flow crisis, the USDA offers no direct financial help, a catch-22 situation impossible for new family farmers
Sky Vegetables: A Brilliant Notion
One of the big challenges facing our modern industrial food system is the heavy reliance upon fossil fuels for the growing of crops, and the transporting of them long distances to market. An average head of lettuce travels 1500 miles before reaching the supermarket shelf, a longer distance than many of us travel on vacation. [...]
Truitt Brothers: Preserving the Bounty in the Modern Age
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 [...]
Whiskey We’ve Got, But Where’s the Meat?
This article reprinted courtesy of Global Voices Venezuela is one of the principal oil-exporting countries of the world. However, petroleum is not edible and, lamentably, Venezuela’s national food industry is not able to feed its population. So Venezuela is, since its economy stopped having an agricultural focus at the beginning of the 20th century, a [...]