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Urban Fruit Gleaning

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Carlo Petrini: Now We Have A Dilemma: Part 3

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Somewhere on the evolutionary path of life, man came to think of himself as detached from nature, and that nature must be controlled for the benefit of man. Our continued journey down this dark road brings us an inevitable step closer to oblivion. Our dilemma, is how to change our [...]

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