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One Green World is here selling
their unique edible plants, every Saturday! Visit their website:
http://www.onegreenworld.com .
Feel free to contact them and place your orders!
If you can't grow your own food, buy it directly from a
local farmer! This is a link to local CSA's
(Consumer Supported Agriculture: Pay a farmer at the beginning of
the growing season, for the following season's produce. You can pick
up or get it delivered, depending on the CSA). This is a wonderful
system. We have personally bought through CSA's for years, and many
of our customers are CSA farmers and subscribers.
Portland Area CSA Coalition
People who want to farm, and people who want their land
farmed, can meet each other here:
http://www.ifarmoregon.org
This is an ongoing project by:
http://www.friendsoffamilyfarmers.com
Washington Tilth is also trying to match up apprentices, farmers,
and landowners here:
Tilth
Producers- Apprenticeship Placement Service
Feel free to download our
Backyard Chickens 101 Booklet . We wrote it, but offer it to the
public as an Educational Resource.
We support and promote
Small Farmer's Journal and
Small Farms
Conservancy . This wonderful publication, and this organization
that it created, are all about supporting and encouraging Small
Farms and the people connected to them! The Journal is available for
purchases at our store, while supplies last.
Come down to our store and pick up a copy of The Capitol Press, the
PNW regional Ag Newspaper! Once you've read one, you will want to
subscribe!
http://www.capitalpress.com/
We refer to and support Growing Gardens
Gardening in Portland
Oregon . They help people learn how to grow food and raise
chickens in the city.
We support Zenger Farm , a
local farm and organization that helps people learn about farming
and sustainable living.
We are members of Oregon Tilth, one
of the very first Organic Certification Organizations, and still one
of the best. Follow their link for an amazing variety of useful
tools and links.
We are members of Washington Tilth, aka
Tilth Producers, a
great
Organic Agriculture organization, also one of the first of it's
kind. Follow their link for many helpful resources.
This is the best resource that we have found for finding Organic, or
local, or sustainably produced, or Biodynamic seeds:
Organic Seed Alliance - Seed Companies Selling Organic Seed
OSU Extension - Small Farms program has
a huge variety of resourses for small and organic farmers here:
OSU Extension | Small
Farms . Please do explore all of the links here. Also, try their
Organic Fertilizer Calculator:
Organic Fertilizer Calculator | Small Farms . You may want to
explore their Cover Crop resources:
Cover Crops & Composting | Small Farms .
WSU Extension has a great deal of information to PNW small farmers,
too: WSU Extension Small Farms
Team
Portland Metro and the OSU Organic Master Gardener Programs have a
huge amount of useful and free information for you, including
classes (we have even given a few of them!):
Metro | Natural Gardening and Sustainable Living resources and
OSU Ext | Master Gardener Organic Gardening Certificate program
We are a sponsor of the
2010 Tour de Coops | Growing Gardens . Go on the self-guided
tour of Portland Chicken Coops, or join the tour with your own coop!
We are members of these trade organizations:
- Oregon Feed And Grain Association
Join the organization, and make Oregon Feed and Grain what you want
it to be!
- Organic Trade Association An
Organization fighting for a strong and healthy Organic industry in
the US and the world.
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce -
Small Business Resources, Advocacy Become a member if you can,
and make it the organization that you want it to be!
- Agricultural Education - The National FFA
Organization Future Farmers of America. Teaching our younger
generation about responsibility, economics, honor, and agriculture.
They do SUCH IMPORTANT work, please support them, and help bring
them into your community if they aren't already there!
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