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Next Generation of Family Farmers (video)
Who will be the next generation of family farmers? How will they access the needed land to farm? Listen in on this discussion between farmers and eaters.
Eastside Egg Co-op
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ken Meter: Building A Local Food Economy: Part 3 (video)
Ken Meter expresses optimism for the future of local food economies, suggests we choose healthier foods to eat as a guide toward supporting local food economies.
Ken Meter: Building A Local Food Economy: 2
Building a local food economy also depends upon retaining local farms, and encouraging the development of new ones. In part 2, Ken Meter outlines the problem with the diminishing availability of affordable farmland. He also shares a couple of stories about two enterprising community efforts: one that makes land more accessible for farming; the other, [...]
Ken Meter: Building A Local Food Economy: Part 1 (video)
Ken Meter defines a strong food system, and why it’s so important.
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. [...]
The Fight Over the World’s Food Systems
Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, discusses the recent riots relating to the disastrous rise in global food prices.