In Good Tilth Fall 2019: Editorial
Insight into changes for In Good Tilth.
Sexual violence, discrimination and toxic work environments are common among women farmworkers, who are often reluctant to discuss abuses they experience on the job. Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste (PCUN), Oregon's farmworker union, is hoping to change that by helping farmworkers learn their rights and connecting them to local resources. Its Healing Circle is an example.
Seed farmers have one shot to get it right each year. When Frank Morton and his wife, Karen, started Wild Garden Seed in 1994, organic seed breeding was rare. With few resources and no mentors, they cataloged successes and failures annually to build their own one-of-a-kind knowledge library.
Bastien Sachet is the CEO of The Forest Trust (TFT), a global nonprofit organization working across 20 countries with over 200 staff, helping companies source products responsibly by focusing on the integrity of their supply chains.
It's Wednesday, one week before Thanksgiving in 2015. Hidden in the fog of Oregon's Beazell Memorial Forest is a barn. Nearby, incense cedar and Douglas fir trees sway and whisper. The path to the entrance feels like Hansel and Gretel's walk in the woods, but instead of encountering saccharine peril, Oregon Tilth staff gather for the organization's annual retreat.
IGT Digital presents a look at networking event for growers and buyers of organic crops, held at the Oregon State University North Willamette Research and Extension Center in December 2016. We hear from both sides as they share opportunities and challenges for supporting the growth of organic agriculture around the country.
Hear from some of the leading changemakers and visionaries helping create a brighter food future. Each issue we chat with a farmer, a chef, a consumer advocate and a food producer, learning about what challenges and opportunities we face across all parts of our food system on a specific topic.
Part three of a three-part Getting Tilth-y episode features Dan Kent, executive director of Salmon-Safe, as he discusses how this special certification program has helped work across an entire sector of agribusiness, especially within beer and hops production.
Over 30 years ago, Lynn Coody jumped into the back of a crowded van with a group of women headed to Ellensburg, Wash. for a Regional Tilth sponsored conference for women farmers. Time and again, she would stuff a few essentials into a backpack, roll up her red sleeping bag and join kindred spirits looking to change how we grow our food.
Award winning certified organic chefs and restaurateurs, Nora Pouillon (Nora's Restaurant) and Maria Hines (Tilth, Agrodolce, Golden Beetle) share a small glimpse into the challenges of being one of just a handful of certified organic restaurants nationwide and how they embrace challenges as well as opportunities to make a difference.
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