COMMENTARY | Portland resident Riah Knapp shares what she learned from a small Costa Rican chocolate producer Thick humid air stuck to my body as the dense jungle canopy buzzed with sounds of rainforest creatures; the smell of exotic plants and mosquito r ...
15 Dec 2017 - Riah Knapp
The Real Junk Food Project combats food poverty by taking food deemed inedible and cooking it up into delicious meals When Adam Smith speaks about his stand against food waste and poverty, he is passionate, unstoppable and completely unequivocal. “We shou ...
12 Jan 2018 - Tony Inglis
Center for Food Safety and Cultivate Oregon take on the Trump administration for killing a regulation that would have bolstered organic-labeling standards Attorneys at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office have taken the lead in a lawsuit filed aga ...
30 Mar 2018 - Emily Green
How farmworkers, nationally and in Oregon, are faring in an age of rising temperatures, immigration crack-downs, housing insecurity and uncertainty At the height of a sweltering afternoon in late July, more than a hundred people descended from a caravan o ...
3 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
Oregon could become the first 'normal' state to implement the program economy-wide, paving the way for the rest of the nation As Oregon lawmakers prepare for this year’s legislative session, a bicameral and bipartisan committee has been hashing ...
31 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
Samples from national chains show three controversial chemicals present in fresh and prepackaged items Random samples of conventional store-brand foods purchased in 15 states, including Oregon, contained varying levels of three common but controversial pe ...
15 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
The Oregon congressman has higher hopes for the Save America’s Pollinators Act this time around Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) announced plans to reintroduce the Save America’s Pollinators Act this morning during a press conference at Northeast Po ...
21 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
The longtime case manager and service provider for people with disabilities is Oregon’s first black woman winemaker on record When Donna Stoney debuts her wine label, Stoney Wines, on Sept. 7, she’ll make history. Stoney is the first recorded black woman ...
30 Aug 2019 - Sarah Hansell
Farmworkers are considered essential workers, but they don’t necessarily receive essential services such as health care and unemployment benefits Beatriz Tapia fears tomorrow. So do billions of other people in a world caught in the grip of a deadly pandem ...
11 Apr 2020 - Anna Pedersen and Tom Henderson
A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...
12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard