By Chris Peterson
1 February 2010
Save the Date: Chefs’ Show-Off!

Mark your calendar: Sunday, April 11, 2010
From 2 to 5 p.m. that afternoon, Ten Rivers Food Web and Linn Benton Commmunity College’s Culinary Arts Department will host the first ever Chefs’ Show-Off in the cafeteria and dining hall of LBCC’s main campus in Tangent.
Four chefs from the Ten Rivers region will each receive a box of ingredients from local farms, ranches and food producers and have one hour to plan and prepare a meal from the contents. Talk about  creative juices flowing! This friendly competition will be emceed by James …

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By admin
18 January 2010
OSU Extension Small Farms Conference

The 10th Annual OSU Extension Small Farms Conference will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
The one-day conference will be held on the Corvallis campus of Oregon State University at the LaSells Stewart Center.
The keynote speaker, author David Mas Masumoto (Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons in Five Senses, and his latest Wisdom of the Last Farmer), will speak on It’s About the Flavors of Life: Why We Farmers Work So Hard. Masumoto is a third generation farmer working with his family on their …

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By Chris Peterson
6 January 2010
Food Film Series

The OSU Food Group, in partnership with the Horning Endowment and the Corvallis Environmental Center, is hosting a Food Film Series on the OSU campus. All films are free to the public, though those who can are asked to bring non-perishable food or personal care items to donate to the OSU Emergency Food Pantry. All showings will be in the Memorial Union, located at 26th and Jefferson Way.  For more information, call 541-737-3473 or e-mail osufoodgroup@oregonstate.edu.
We Feed the World: Tuesday, January 19 at 7 p.m. in MU 208: La Raza
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By Chris Peterson
14 December 2009
Shop Locally Online

George Brown has gotten to know a lot about the local food scene in his job as a buyer in the bulk department at First Alternative Co-op. He’s also met most of the farmers and food producers in this area through his job, shopping farmers’ markets religiously and making a point to learn all he can about what is grown here. His long-held dream of starting an online local foods shopping service just became a reality. Almost 20 farms and food producers are ready to deliver their products to you through this …

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By Chris Peterson
21 November 2009
Building a New Food System Through Innovative Collaboration

Julie Tilt and Clint Lindsey have jobs that involve canyons of stacked bags and boxes. Forklifts often hum in the background. Their livelihoods are directly dependent upon the soil, but their businesses are very different. Hers is contained within the walls of a metal warehouse in a small city. Her workspace is measured in feet. His workspace is 40 miles away, measured in acres. He spends as much time between soil and sky as she does at a computer. She distributes natural foods throughout the Pacific Northwest. He’s a grass seed farmer, his product going around the world.

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By Carla Wise
30 October 2009
Farmer Meetings Mull Progress of Local  Bean and Grain Growing

I think it’s fair to say that farmers don’t usually like to talk much about their farms. They don’t often say what they are earning, what they are planting, or what they might be planning for next year. Maybe it’s because it’s such a hard and unpredictable business. But some of those closed-lipped patterns seem to be breaking down around here, and perhaps that’s one of the greatest successes so far of the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project.
Project organizers hosted farmer meetings in mid-October to discuss 2009’s successes …