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Sustainable Food Program
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Get the freshest produce at one of Portland's many farmers markets
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What you need to know for backyard hens, goats, bees and rabbits
The Bureau's Sustainable Food Program focuses on policy and projects that promote community resiliency, equity, and environmental, economic, and personal health.
FAQs
Common questions about food in Portland
- Food labels: What do they all mean?
- How does the USDA define Organic?
- How is Organic different from conventional?
- I want to start a food cart business? Where do I go for information?
- I'm on a budget. What produce is most important to buy Organic?
- Raising backyard animals and bees in Portland
- What are sustainable options for purchasing dairy, eggs, meat, and seafood?
- What do I do if I want to grow food and don't have space to do it where I live? Does the City of Portland have land available?
- What is the Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council and when does it meet?
- Why should I buy Organic?
Farmers Markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
Locations and schedules for the 2012 farmers market season and details for the many CSAs that serve the Portland area
Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council
A citizen-based advisory council on food issues
Step Up to the Plate
A blog about food topics
- Save the date for Gaining Ground: A New Film on Food Justice and Feeding Our Communities Sustainably
- Foodopoly
- East Multnomah County Soil and Water Conservation District Looking for Landless Farmers
- City Food Policy and Programs: Lessons harvested from an emerging field
- City Food Policy and Programs: Lessons harvested from an emerging field
- BPS Brown Bag Lecture
- July's Gems
- Eat Dirt
- Food Code Coda
- Food System Goals
- The Joys of June
- Salad Days
- Urban Growth Bounty: May's Mix
- Social (Justice) Network
- Urban Growth Bounty in April
- Here's the Beef
- Urban Growth Bounty Marches On
- Counting (on) Sheep
- Zoning Code Marches On!
- New Urban Growth Bounty Class!
- The Northwest Vegetarian Cookbook by Debra Daniels-Zeller
- Time to Plan Your Garden
- Portland's Winter Farmers Markets
- Urban Growth Bounty 2012
- The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook by Kim O'Donnel
- Happy 2012
- Winter Harvest Cookbook by Lane Morgan
- Winter Wasteland? Not Hardly.
- Autumn Farmers Markets
- PDX Street Eats Are #1
- Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council Seeks New Members
- A Tale of Two Cities, or A Tomato By Any Other Name Would Look Bad
- Let It Rain
- Site, Soil
- Plant Your Garden
- Compost
- Better Together Garden at City Hall
- Ultimate Density
- Portland's Food Rules
- InFARMation (and Beer!)
- To Markets, To Markets
- To Bee or Not to Bee
- Forks Over Knives
- Farmerzine
- Build Up on Aisle 3
- Blended Beats
- Nobel Videos and Rappin' Dairy
- Young Farmers are Mixin' It Up
- To Bee or Not To Bee
- Bee Here Now: Queen of the Sun is the Bee's Knees
- Fried Jam Throwdown
- Larding the Larder
- Oh, SNAP
- Mad Man Meets Meatless Mondays
- Wasted Away in Climateville
- City Farms Seed the Way for Certifiers
- Spray On, Spray Off
- SNAP to Your Farmers Market
- A Challenge for Portland's Food Carts!
- Clucking Around
- Climate, Food and a Side of Hope
- Feelin' the Heat
- Better Together Blotter: Can We Dig It?
- Bicycle Appétit
- A True Pot Head
- Patriotic Planting
- This Little Blueberry Went to Market
- Portland’s Provisions
- Bringin’ Ag to the Mag
- Hold the Steak (at least till Tuesday)
- A Deeper Shade of Green
- Intel Outside
- Preserving Summer with Urban Growth Bounty Classes
- Tamale Madness, (Nearly) Meatless Mondays and More with Ivy Manning
- Jen Aron Appreciation Day
- Food and Climate Change Day: A Panel Discussion with Anna Lappé
- Growing a City Hall Garden
Sustainable Food Resource Database
Directory of community and national sustainable food resources
Urban Food Zoning Code Update
Increasing access to healthful, affordable food for all residents