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Food Club: Know Thy Food

12th - Higher Ed
The Know Thy Food buyer's club began with a small parenting group in 2008, and has grown into a 900-member food buyer's club, with hundreds of fresh, sustainable and organic foods available from local farmers, and specialty food...
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Path to Food Preservation: Householding

12th - Higher Ed
Householding seeks to restore the pride and practice of home economics with an emphasis on sustainability, equity, and health." —Harriet Fasenfest, author of The Householder's Guide to the Universe In this video, Harriet Fasenfest shares...
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Instructional Video5:32
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A Love of Good Farmhouse Food

12th - Higher Ed
Rudy Marchesi has crafted his life around a world devoted to food. Both professionally, as owner of a vineyard and winery on 230 acres near Portland, Oregon, and in his personal life, with a nearby residence that he has carved out as a...
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Instructional Video3:48
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Buying Bulk Foods: Fill Your Pantry

12th - Higher Ed
Fill Your Pantry, an annual post-harvest event sponsored by Ten Rivers Food Web, and Willamette Farm and Food Coalition, seeks to establish a regional food economy that benefits farmers, consumers, and the local community. As Jen...
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Instructional Video7:07
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Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger

12th - Higher Ed
A simple idea that came out of hearing a story on the radio. For Tracy Oseran, it was something she had to do: help find and distribute food that would otherwise be thrown out — perfectly edible food—from supermarkets, farmer's markets,...
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Instructional Video2:23
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Benefits of a Food Club from the Members Perspective

12th - Higher Ed
The food buyer's club Know Thy Food brings community, transparency and a greater sense of empowerment to its members who are free to choose from a massive catalogue listing of local sustainable organic foods to buy. We ask a few of the...
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Instructional Video2:53
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Can a Major City Grow All Its Own Food?

12th - Higher Ed
Tim Donovan, farm manager at Project Grow, an urban farm that grows food for local neighborhood CSA members with help from adults with disabilities, shares his views on growing food in a city the size of Portland, Oregon. While it may be...
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Instructional Video5:57
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Canning Food: Pickles

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Fuller and his wife Judy have been building their food processing business Sweet Creek Foods—they refer to it as a "glassery" rather than a cannery—for 12 years. They started with pickles, then moved on to jams, tomatoes, salsa and...
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Food Farmer Earth: Katherine Deumling Profile

12th - Higher Ed
Introducing Katherine Deumling, a Portland, Oregon culinary teacher, cook, avid gardener, and food activist. Deumling studied food and culture in Italy and Mexico, and grew up in Germany. Combining her personal life experiences, and...
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Instructional Video4:24
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Peppers: A Love of Spanish Food and Culture

12th - Higher Ed
When Manuel Recio and his wife, Leslie Lukas-Recio, had the sudden opportunity to buy her family's farm on Grand Island in Oregon, they saw it as an opportunity to work for themselves as well as a way to include their love of food and...
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Instructional Video3:05
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Making a Homemade Dog Food Treat

12th - Higher Ed
Canine cookbook author Rick Woodford , Feed Your Best Friend Better, demonstrates an easy granola bar recipe that your dog will enjoy. Woodford believes in using fresh ingredients that come from the same common foods that humans will eat.
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Instructional Video5:14
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Easy Homemade Dog Food Meal

12th - Higher Ed
The Dog Food Dude Rick Woodford, author of Feed Your Best Friend Better, demonstrates an easy to make Mutt Loaf recipe that's nutritious and tasty that your dog will love.
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Instructional Video2:42
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Expert Tips for Safe Home Food Storage

12th - Higher Ed
Janice Gregg from the Oregon State University Extension Service shares some of her knowledge on how to store staple foods over the winter months. As Gregg explains, edible grains, fruits, squashes, and other staples have different...
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Instructional Video4:36
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A Mom Teaches Her Children the Importance of Food

12th - Higher Ed
Being a mom is really connected to feeding your kids, says Sarah Gilbert, a stay-at-home working mother. As she learned from her mother growing up, Gilbert strives to educate and instill an appreciation for fresh, locally produced food...
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Instructional Video9:06
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Paul Roberts - The End of Food

12th - Higher Ed
From the archives: Paul Roberts, author of The End Of Food, summarizes his talk about our food system, circa 2009. Roberts argues that the industrial agriculture system is sick and that applying surface solutions will not get to the root...
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Instructional Video5:11
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Ken Meter - An Upbeat Assessment - Building a Local Food Economy

12th - Higher Ed
In part 3 of this final installment, local food security expert, Ken Meter of Crossroads Resource Center, expresses optimism for the future of building local food economies. Since 1974 he has been a voice for establishing locally grown...
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Instructional Video4:30
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Farmer Jane: Celebrating Stories About Women And Food

12th - Higher Ed
Author and activist Temra Costa talks about her book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing The Way We Eat, dedicated she says, to women whose stories are not often told. Costa interviews 30 women comprised of farmers, chefs, sustainable food...
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Instructional Video4:59
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Joan Dye Gussow - What Happened to Our Food?

12th - Higher Ed
Joan Dye Gussow, professor, author and food activist shares her take on how we ended up with our present day food system. At its core, we as a society have not placed a deep enough concern about where our food comes from and how to...
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Instructional Video3:22
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The Proper Role of Government In Setting Food Policy

12th - Higher Ed
Anna Lappé, food activist, author and new mom addresses a primary question: what is the proper role for government in setting food policy, and why?
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Instructional Video8:32
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Seeking Seismic Change of Our Industrial Food System

12th - Higher Ed
Nicolette Hahn Niman, rancher, environmental activist and author of Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production, explains why our food system is broken. Niman argues that the industrialization of food has created mammoth...
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Instructional Video8:44
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Michael Pollan - In Defense Of Food

12th - Higher Ed
An interview and talk with noted author and journalist Michael Pollan on the subject of food and food science from his (then) newly released book, In Defense of Food.
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Instructional Video9:48
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The End of Food - Paul Roberts

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Roberts, journalist and author of the book, The End of Food, shares the story of the early years of industrial farming and how the accidental use of antibiotics lead to a revolution in livestock production. Unfortunately, as he...
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Instructional Video2:02
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State of the Oceans Health Impact - Eating Top of the Food Chain

12th - Higher Ed
Alison Barratt, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, suggests the importance of eating fish lower in the food chain. Instead, she explains, Americans eat salmon, tuna and shrimp more (by far) than any other fish which...
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Instructional Video4:17
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The Art of Commercial Food Photography

12th - Higher Ed
Join us for a behind the scenes look at a food photographer and his team, as they create sumptuous images out of fresh ingredients that seem to jump off the page.

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