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Urban Fruit Gleaning (video)

Portland Fruit Tree Project provides a valuable service that helps communities benefit directly from local resources. Fresh fruit that grows on neighborhood trees is collected by volunteers, and dropped off at local Food Banks for distribution to those in need. The great thing about this program is that in large part, the fruit would not [...]

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Carlo Petrini: Now We Have A Dilemma

Cooking Up a Story: Food News Along the evolutionary path of life, man came to think of himself as detached from nature, and nature, to be controlled and harnessed for the benefit of man. Part 3, of this Carlo Petrini series, Petrini asks us to take a step back from our daily lives, and reexamine [...]

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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 [...]

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