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 [...]
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.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Donna Smith, a voice for urban farming
By Cathy McQueeney
The Portland Upside
April 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The final leg of the Agricultural Reclamation Act Tour felt bittersweet as we celebrated the completion of Meeting #16 last week. What seemed like such a big undertaking at the beginning, and something that could not possibly have an end, was actually coming to a conclusion on the stormy south coast. In the past three [...]
Due to a good chance of inclement weather tonight, we are going to reschedule the Klamath Falls
Agricultural Reclamation Act meeting for NEXT THURSDAY, JANUARY 28TH from 6-8pm at the Klamath Falls Library, 126 S. 3rd.
Please let us know if you are able to to join us next week so that we know who will be [...]
The 10th annual Extension Small Farms Conference will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The one-day conference will be held on the Corvallis campus of Oregon State University at the LaSells Stewart Center. The keynote speaker, author Mas Masumoto [Epitaph for a Peach, Four [...]
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