They're lumpy and hard as a rock, yellow as a golden delicious apple and with a floral fragrance that'll perfume your whole hous...

In mid-October of this year, Portland was host to a gathering of certified B Corporations. The metro area currently boasts more than 40 b...

I first heard of Marie Equi, one of the first woman physicians in Oregon and a radical activist, from my friend Bette Sinclair, who lives...

I've been wanting to take another stab at making this anywhere-from-one-to-five-alarm sauce after making Jim Dixon's version usi...

A meditative moment from the Zigzag River on Mt. Hood, brought to you by my brother , who built these rock cairns. Pretty cool!

Indigenous people didn't have any problem finding sources of protein here in the moderate climate of the Northwest. After all, there ...

In a groundbreaking ruling, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the federal Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) appr...

It's incredible that no one had thought of it before: bringing chefs together with farmers and seed breeders to collaborate on growin...

If you're like me and your visits to the garden to check on your tomatoes are getting more infrequent, before you just give up and pl...

On a weekend at the beach I started reading Hank Shaw's first book, Hunt, Gather, Cook , and was moved to write this: "After r...

Working the sorting line during the grape harvest one year, one of the great pleasures was picking up a beautiful cluster off the belt a...

It's like an equation: Deep piles of Douglas fir needles plus cool Northwest rain equals…chanterelles! There's nothing like runni...

Perdue Farms , the 800-pound gorilla of the poultry business, has bought the Niman Ranch brand in a move that's seen as its "tr...

It's officially fall. The ash trees surrounding our house are turning golden, coloring the light that spills in the kitchen windows. ...

This Sunday concludes Ayers Creek Farm's summer market season, and they will return on the 15th of November for four markets before t...

When I think of making a fruit dessert, my mind naturally goes to a crisp, with its crumbly, granola-esque topping that's the perfect...

The avalanche started in mid-August, and now, in mid-September, it's pretty much over. The onslaught of roasting, bagging and freezin...

Back in the days of John Cage and Frank Zappa, and Stephen Sondheim finding his voice, there were families who had an uncle or neighbor w...