by Sustainable Food News PORTLAND – Sustainable food certifier Food Alliance Thursday unveiled comprehensive national standards for sustainable sheep and goat production with strict criteria for raising and treating the animals. “Consumers want to know the foods they buy are good for them, and good for the environment, ” said […]

This is an update on the health of Paulette Pyle, Dir. OFS From Sandi Schukar, Oregonians For Food and Shelter, Paulette has three fractured vertebrae.  She has quite a bit of swelling and inflammation around the spinal column, so they are waiting for that to subside before they do surgery […]

Oregon Department of Agriculture Press Release   The Oregon Department of Agriculture has extended the area closed to recreational mussel harvesting to include the entire coast, from the mouth of the Columbia River to the California border. The closure is due to elevated levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning or PSP […]

By Guest opinion, Many rural Oregon communities are struggling to fund vital community services and programs, such as schools, libraries, and drug enforcement efforts.  These very same communities are situated in some of the nation’s most abundant resource basins, which, if utilized in a sustainable manner, could provide abundant financial […]

Update from The Oregon Wheat Foundation, Pendleton, OR — The Oregon Wheat Foundation will provide up to twelve scholarships for high school seniors whose families are members of the Oregon Wheat Growers League.  Students whose family members are employed by OWGL wheat producer members are also eligible.  The scholarship requirements […]

A Special and Personal Message from Oregonains for Food and Shelter, Many of you know that Paulette, along with her husband Ken, and their dear friend, Marylin Shannon (former State Senator from the Salem area) left last week on a pilgrimage to Medugorje.  Paulette is a devout Catholic and has […]

[Department of Fish and Wildlife Press Release] TILLAMOOK, Ore. – With this year’s return of fall chinook and coho salmon well underway on the northern Oregon coast, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Oregon State Police want to remind anglers to closely inspect their salmon when landed. The […]

Oregonians In Action Education Center, Looking Forward Magazine, 6/08, In the November/December 2003 edition of Looking Forward, we warned that the state’s newest method of restricting your property rights would be completed under the guise of “groundwater protection.”  That warning five years ago demonstrates why the name of Oregonians In […]

[Oregon Farm Bureau Press Release] The Oregon Farm Bureau applauds Oregon Senator Gordon Smith’s support of the bipartisan federal combined financial aid and tax extender package, which will help restore confidence in the markets and free up the credit flows small businesses, agriculture, and Main Street Americans. “Senator Gordon Smith […]

[Press Release from Oregonians for Food and Shelter] OFS:: To all OFS forestry and nursery folks:  OFIC, OFS and others have been working with ODA over the past year to help forest seeding nurseries (hardwood and conifer) find a way to keep Methyl bromide (MeBr) available for treatment of noxious […]