This week-long cooking camp is the perfect way to help kids start developing sustainable eating habits at a young age. By preparing meals on their own, using farm-fresh ingredients, they’ll learn how fun and easy it is to eat seasonally and locally.

Perfect your hunter-gatherer techniques with this hands-on workshop. Learn how to determine if and when wild foods are desirable to use, which plants to seek, and how to identify the poisonous ones.

Celebration Oregon! will kick off the Oregon State Fair in grand style with an awards and tasting event featuring 50 Oregon wineries and 15 Oregon restaurants, chefs, and caterers.

Do you have an appetite for improvement? Join Coelho Winery for an open air evening of live music, small bites, fine wines from Eola-Amity Wineries, and a silent auction with friends and neighbors. All proceeds benefit Amity DIG/

East India Co. Grill & Bar will join the Indian Cultural Association to usher in Indian Independence Day at Pioneer Square. For the following week, East India Co. will serve a four-course tasting menu priced at $19.47 (the year of independence) along with colorful dishes in orange, white and green to commemorate the Indian flag, at their restaurant.

Zenger Farm is hosting their 2nd Annual Picnic! Guests will tour the farm, enjoy a picnic of Zenger Farm produce prepared by Bon Appetite Chef Joe McGarry, dance to the music of Dos Zapatos, and view a film projected on the side of the Zenger barn!

Cool off at the Heathman Restaurant and Bar’s Patio Party with a splash of bubbly and cognac. Patio Party pairs Moët et Chandon and Hennessy Cognac with a four-course menu of pork cheeks, grilled peach salad, fresh northwest oysters and Hennessy truffles.

The Deschutes Brewery Street Fare will fill the street in front of their Portland Pub with live and local indie music music, all of Portland’s most popular food carts, and plenty of craft beer. The Fare benefits Morrison Child and Family Services.

Have you thought about what your rights are as eaters, and whether the standards, values, and needs that you have as an eater are reflected (or rejected!) by our state laws? Come join the discussion!

Join a reading and discussion of Paul Greenberg’s new book at Powell’s City of Books. How can we start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception?

Join WillaKenzie Estate for an exotic dinner at Andina, and experience the warmth, familiarity and contrasts of Peruvian cuisine and culture. Enjoy a special selection of WillaKenzie Estate wines paired with an exiting, rich fusion of tastes and aromas of Peru.

Join the Home Orchard Society for a full day of fun and learning at the HOS Arboretum. Learn how to propagate stone fruit like peaches, cherries and plums, enjoy samples of summer fruit varieties such as blueberries, peaches and plums and bring a dish to share for the Orchard Society’s Annual Potluck Picnic.

In Good Taste hosts a series of reflective and educational classes by local chef Amy Jermain. This Saturday’s class is centered on Oregon’s farmers and agricultural systems.

Join Portland’s most innovative chefs as they create exquisite meals using seasonal, local ingredients paired with the best wines and take-home sweets in the area’s most beautiful and interesting home gardens.

Buy raffle tickets, and support this year’s Terra Madre delegates! This August and September, Slow Food Portland is raffling an amazing assortment of prizes, generously donated by past and current Terra Madre delegates.