Putting Down Roots
Denise Chin writes about nurturing cultural heritage in the garden.
Carrying the Corn Mother
Jessica Doe writes about how seed-saving connects Cherokee people across geography and generations.
Sweet Roots
Chelsea Yarnell explores how people in Tillamook County are recovering the stories and flavors of heritage apple trees.
Flavors of Being
Minal Mistry on reconnecting with the spices of his ancestors.
That's Group Living
An excerpt from "Group Living and Other Recipes" by Lola Milholland
Corazón de Fuego / Heart of Fire
La Comida de Nuestras Madres / The Foodways of our Mothers by Yanely Rivas
Memoria Ancestral
Comic by Yanely Rivas
Tertulias de Película: Lorena, la de pies ligeros / Lorena, Light-Footed Woman
Qué mejor plan para un viernes que ver una película en compañía y quedarse a charlar?
Aprende sobre Lorena, una atleta mexicana que ha hecho historia por derribar estereotipos llevando orgullosa su cultura al resto del mundo, y quédate a comer y charlar al final de la peli.
Turkeys
Aileen Hymas writes about struggling to raise poultry and live her sustainable farming ideals.
Full Catastrophe Eating, from Soil to Soul
Diane Choplin on experiencing the joys and pains of consuming meat mindfully.
Angier, NC
A poem by Eric Tran
From the Director: Consider
Adam Davis on desire, death, and doughnuts
Purple Prairie
Josephine Woolington on how tribal members and conservationists are trying, camas patch by camas patch, to create a patchwork of native prairie in the Willamette Valley. An excerpt from Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Woksemi
In this video—the first in a series of stories about life in Oregon called Yamatala—filmmaker Ke-As Ne-Asht Sheshatko follows a family on the Klamath Tribes' reservation during Woksemi, or Wokas harvest season.
Adaptation and Appreciation
Jacqueline Keeler writes about how tribal communities in Oregon may remember the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hotter, Drier, and Less Predictable
Amanda Waldroupe writes about how climate change is affecting Oregon's agricultural sector and how some farmers are adapting.
"Farming Is So Much More than Food"
An interview with Megan Horst of Portland State University on the future of Oregon's food systems. By Dylan Jefferies
The New Americans
Brian Liu on David Chang's Ugly Delicious, honesty, and what it means to be Asian American.
Saved by the Bell
Food writer Heather Arndt Anderson on how childhood poverty and working in the school cafeteria shaped her connection with her subject.
Love and Noodles
Marilou Carrera writes about the meaning of pancit, a dish that is so much more than just fried noodles—it's history, family, and community.
So Much Together: Inheritance Stories with Lola Milholland
Lola Milholland produces food-related art installations and events that bring together interactive public engagement with art making and food activism. In this workshop, Lola will share her work and ideas and guide participants in creating a cookbook together by interviewing and listening to each other.
Fermenting My Asian American Identity
Jen Shin writes about how a summer in Vietnam helped her embrace her Korean heritage.
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What's Growing in John Day
Juliet Grable writes about the Eastern Oregon town of John Day, a small city with big plans for the future that start in the greenhouse.
Kitchen Ghost
Digging into the origins of her family's Filipino–Polish food traditions, Lola Milholand finds a tangle of colonialism, identity, and hurt.
Stepping Up in Southern Oregon
In Ashland, a network of volunteer organizations provide meals for those who need them. Amy Stewart writes about how that network has adapted to the pandemic.
Things Gleaned
Gleaning, the ancient practice of salvaging of unsold food for redistribution, has made a big comeback in the 21st Century. Eugene writer Ruby McConnell writes about her experience with striving to let nothing go to waste.
Mama Will Feed You
A mother’s journey through cultural reclamation, changing food systems, and the new wave of mutual aid
Preserving Food, Cheating Death
A compulsive canner considers what it is about this pandemic year that has so many people feeling the urge to preserve.
Eid al-Adha, Festival of Sacrifice
Visiting family in Egypt during Eid Al-Adha, when sheep and cattle are sacrificed and their meat is given away, an Egyptian-American writer considers family, faith, and violence.
Heavy
Pandemic and politics surfaced feelings I couldn't face, or even describe. So I ate them. An essay by Bobbie Willis Soeby
The Case for Group Living
Lola Milholland writes about finding joy in the intimacy and solidarity of a crowded house.
Reciprocity of Tradition
Photographer Joe Whittle explores how traditional practices of Native Americans of the Columbia Plateau strengthen communities and preserve connections to the land.
The Quiet and In-between Moments
Joni Renee Whitworth writes about finding closeness and queerness through touch.
Black Nightshade and Bierocks
Heather Arndt Anderson writes about finding connections to her Volga German ancestors through recipes and semi-poisonous berries.
Deep Roots
Samantha Bakall writes about how Mudbone Grown, an urban farm in North Portland, offers celebration and community in the face of Oregon's white-dominated agriculture industry.
The Opposite of What We Know
Writer Putsata Reang reflects on the project "Bitter Harvest"
Bitter Harvest
Writer Putsata Reang and filmmaker Ivy Lin explore the stories of Chinese laborers in the 1900s who helped establish the state's reputation as an international beer capital, despite exclusion laws that kept them from owning the hop farms where they worked.
The Farmers of Tanner Creek
Writer Putsata Reang on the little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland
"I'm Not Staying Here Another Day"
A conversation about the Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson and Rukaiyah Adams
This Way through Oregon
Illustrating the systems that move salmon, waste, traffic, and legislation
Another Life
I think often of the taste of my grandfather's grapes and of the meat from my father's knife. An essay by Hanna Neuschwander
Food Forward
Robert Paarlberg on the history of the Green Revolution and the future of global food production