Communities can work together to solve local problems and overcome obstacles with cooperation, support and motivated individuals. During our Agricultural Reclamation Act tour, we heard many suggestions for how communities could work towards an agricultural system that prioritizes local food production, processing, and distribution as a way to create thriving communities, healthy people, strong social [...]
InFARMation (and Beer!) is happening in August – next Tuesday the 10th! After the unexpected news that Roots Brewery closed the day before July’s scheduled InFARM, we seem to landed in a great new home. Come check it out – InFARMation (and Beer!) is now at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison – [...]
Farm Aid has published a national report on how family farmers are staying viable and propping up our economy, a perfect compliment to FoFF’s Agricultural Reclamation Act for Oregon. Read more about it on the Farm Aid website.
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Farm to Fork, a “traveling farm-to-table restaurant, local food fundraiser and community celebration” in the Rogue Valley, recently announced that they have chosen FoFF as one of their 2010 partners and causes.
An essential part of the FARM to FORK mission is to directly support both local farmers [...]
Ken and Susan Muller, from Rogue Valley Brambles in Talent, got an Op-Ed published in the April 21st edition of The Oregonian. Entitled “Agricultural regulation: For Oregon’s farms, one size doesn’t fit all” Ken and Susan speak of their participation in the Agricultural Reclamation Act and how the status quo is not working; there is [...]
While many of our friends and supporters easily recognize FoFF’s role in supporting the future success of independent socially responsible family farmers and in bringing together farmers and consumers, many are less familiar with our “It’s Our Backyard” program, where to date we have supported rural residents and farmers across the state protect themselves from [...]
It was at a family farmer and rancher community grassroots meeting that I met Donna Smith. My husband and I had driven in to Portland to attend the January meeting. We wanted to see what this Agricultural Reclamation Act (ARA) gathering was all about.
As a relative newcomer to the farming community, I was more of [...]
Southern Oregon Farmer Incubator Educational Program
A partnership between the OSU Small Farms Program and THRIVE with iFarm Oregon, Rogue Farm Corps & Access
Farm Incubator Training
Ongoing agricultural, business management and marketing education over a nine-month season. Participants will receive an on-farm consultation with a small farms instructor and [...]
On Sunday February 28th, over 70 Farmer & Rancher Delegates, representing communities from across the state, came together for the first annual Farmer and Rancher Delegation. Participants gathered to voice their support for the Agriculture Reclamation Act or “ARA” for Oregon, a road map for future food and agricultural policy, which prioritizes family-scale farms and [...]
With only a few more days until the first ever Farmer & Rancher Delegates Meeting, the Friends of Family Farmers team is busy putting the finishing touches on many months worth of work on the Agricultural Reclamation Act. The last few weeks have been spent compiling and distilling all the data from 17 community meetings, [...]
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