Chefs Collaborative is a network of chefs, restaurateurs, and culinary professionals that promote sustainable cuisine by educating children, supporting local farmers, exchanging information and knowledge, and inspiring consumers to choose clean, healthy foods.
Eatwild's website provides information about the benefits of raising animals on pasture, links consumers with local suppliers of all-natural, grass-fed products, and provides a marketplace for farmers who raise their livestock on pasture from birth to market and who actively promote the welfare of their animals and the health of the land.
Ecotrust is a conservation organization committed to strengthening communities and the environment from Alaska to California. Ecotrust's Food and Farms Program works to create a vibrant regional food system where sustainability is the underlying value of the mainstream food system.
Independence Gardens helps people grow food for themselves, their families, and their communities by building sustainable edible gardens: consulting, teaching, building, and assisting with maintenance of edible gardens. Founded in 2009 by two native Portlanders, Independence Gardens is a Native- and women-owned business. CCB#186008; Oregon Tilth Organic Land Care Professionals; EcoBiz.
Resources, Restaurants, Adult Education, Children, Teen Education, Educational Mission, Community Gardens, Individual, Family Plot, Landscape and Design, School Gardens, Learning/ Demonstration, Emergency Services, Food Security
A student club of the Western Culinary Institute, open to enrolled students, the club’s mission is to provide students with the opportunity to grow, tend, harvest and market their own produce using sustainable growing practices.
Lost Arts Kitchen offers small, hands-on cooking classes in a typical home kitchen in NE Portland, Oregon, classes and demonstrations at other sites, plus private lessons and consultations on topics such as meal planning, food storage, and kitchen organization.
Oregon Culinary offers a great culinary arts education which is complete, practical, affordable, and give its graduates the best possible foundation for a life in the food service industry.
Plate and Pitchfork offers ticketed dinners served onsite at Portland-area farms dedicated to sustainable farming and business practices. *** Mailing Address: PO Box 82744, Portland, Oregon 97282
The Portland Public Market is an ongoing planning effort to create a year-round permanent public market in Portland, with a mission to promote sustainable agricultural practices, to encourage healthy eating, and to provide entrepreneurial opportunities for those who produce and sell the food we eat. *** Mailing Address: P.O. Box, 511, Portland, Oregon 97207
Portland Preserve is dedicated to teaching the art and science of food preservation and takes up residence in the backyard urban farm located in NE Portland.
Slow Food Portland, Oregon, is one of more than 130 local chapters of Slow Food U.S.A. that carry out the Slow Food mission to support and celebrate the food traditions of North America.
The North Coast Food Guide is a guide to Clatsop and Tillamook county's locally grown, caught and produced foods with nutrition, food preservation, and other educational tidbits for your information.
