How a garden and farmers market aims to connect one of Oregon's most ethnically diverse communities Dan Newth is a member of Street Roots’ MoJo program. MoJo is composed of vendors interested in journaling life on the streets and writing about issues ...
15 Sep 2021 - Dan Newth
Farmers who oppose these bills testify they have laborers’ best interests in mind, but the campesinos tell a different story State Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis (R-Millersburg) knows what’s best for workers on her family’s Linn County farm, she told her fello ...
5 May 2021 - Tom Henderson
Food recovery systems put in place during the coronavirus shutdowns could stop the cycle of food waste Each day, about one pound of food is wasted for every person in the United States. That’s more than 133 billion pounds each year, equaling between 30% a ...
6 Jan 2021 - Katherine Haines
Already trying to manage harvests amid a pandemic, Southern Oregon farmworkers are further set back by wildfires Erica Sanchez spent the end of her first season as a farmworker in Southern Oregon dodging historic blazes, bouncing from hotels and overcrowd ...
23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
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
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
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
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
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
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