Events

The 10th Annual OSU Extension Small Farms Conference will be held Saturday, February 27, 2010, in Corvallis.

The conference includes many sessions, covering a range of topics of interest to growers, market managers, and community food advocates:

• Enroll for the Fresh and Frozen Fruit & Veggie Voucher Program
• Creating Successful Farm Internships
• Agri-tourism as a Value-Added Enterprise on Your Farm
• Alternative Poultry Feeds Part II
• The Business of Farmers Markets.
• Funding Successful Energy Improvement Projects
• New Tools for Marketing your Products
• Small Scale Grain Production
• SNAP/EBT Management
• Farmers as Writers
• Farmers’ Market - Public Health Partnerships: Solutions for Healthy Eating
• Alternative Meat Marketing Strategies
• Cover Crops for Soil Fertility & the Bottom Line

Click here for more information or to register.

Posted on 01/29/10 by WFFC News Admin

FARMERS - The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project will host two meetings in March for farmers interested in discussing the 2010 growing season.

Come share your experience and your questions about plant varieties, seed sources, planting times, soil amendments, irrigation, weeds, harvesting, processing, storage, product marketing, etc.

Eugene: Wednesday, March 10, 2:30-4:30.
OSU/Lane County Extension Service Auditorium, 950 West 13 th Ave , Eugene

Tangent: Thursday, March 11,  2:30-4:30.
Western Star Grange, Corner of Tangent Drive and Oakville Road in Tangent

Please RSVP to (541) 686-0921 (Hummingbird Wholesale) or by e-mail to julie@hummingbirdwholesale.com

Posted on 02/25/10 by WFFC News Admin

Eat Dessert Now!
 
What:  Local Foods Community Dessert Potluck and film screening of Ingredients: the Movie
 
When:  Sunday,  March 14th. Doors open @  6:30pm, Movie at 7:15pm
 
Where:  1st United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall, 13th & Olive, Eugene
 
Bring:  A dessert to share
 
Ingredients - the movie http://www.ingredientsfilm.com/
 
At the focal point of this movement, and of this film, are the farmers and chefs who are creating a truly sustainable food system. Their collaborative work has resulted in great tasting food and an explosion of consumer awareness about the benefits of eating local.

A feature-length documentary, INGREDIENTS illustrates how people around the country are working to revitalize that connection. Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, the film takes us across the U.S. from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valley to the urban food deserts of Harlem and to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins. INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.

Posted on 02/25/10 by WFFC News Admin