Portland area experts compiled a list of 43 fruit and nut tree varieties ideal for our backyards.

Join Slow Food Portland for Dig In!, Slow Food USA’s national volunteer day.

Join the Montavilla Farmers Market in a conversation about bringing healthy food to East Portland.

Don’t miss the Wetland Conservancy’s inaugural fundraising farm dinner at the Oregon Coast, prepared by James Beard Award finalist Chef Cathy Whims of Nostrana.

Learn to transform acorns into wonderful additions to breads, muffins, pancakes, and pudding with Wild Food Adventures. You’ll also learn distill, using only simple kitchen ware, and create a mint distillate for use in teas, cooking or aroma therapy.

Learn how to build a secure, happy home for your hens in this hands-on workshop with John Carr of The Garden Coop.

Pickles, relishes and chutneys: an overview of the savory side of canning and preserving.  Quick refrigerator dills, Indian eggplant relish, green tomato chutney and mustard-carrot pickles. Plenty of samples to taste, plus you’ll take home your own container of pickles!

Join Food Front Co-op on a tour of Gathering Together Farm and Evesham Wood Vineyard! Tour the grounds, feast at The Garden Room, and sample organic wines.

AM Northwest video! We feature fall’s iconic fruit, the pear. Kelley Swenson of June mixes one of his favorite pear cocktails.

Join Grand Central Bakery’s celebration of harvest and community at the Grand Central Bakery Fair: An Urban Farming Expo and Bicycle Rodeo. A “backyard” BBQ, baking and preserving contests, an exhibition of urban grown produce, and a wide array of baking, cooking and urban farming seminars and demos.

Which vegetables are easiest to grow from seed? How do know if your seed will breed true? Learn to grow and harvest your own vegetable seeds, and to plan your garden for seed growing, with the Portland Permaculture Guild.

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. Scott Ketterman of Simpatica will prepare this Sunday’s meal at Linda Wisner’s Flicker Farm on Sauvie Island.

Celebrate the harvest of locally grown tomatoes of all varieties and colors! Farmington Gardens has scoured the countryside to bring you as many kinds of tomatoes as they can find. Cooking demos, gardening tips, and plenty of free samples!

Kookoolan Farms owners Chrissie and Koorosh Zaerpoor will walk you through the process of humanely and cleanly killing and butchering a chicken in your own house or yard. 

Don’t miss one of the biggest celebrations in Oregon!

This U of O conference explores the history and future of our food system, focused on community, equity, and sustainability. Free!

For Dia de Los Muertos, families make sugar skulls and tenderly letter the name of deceased relatives on the forehead in commemoration.

This tart contrasts the crunchy texture of an all-nut crust with the juiciness of cranberries.

A beautiful addition to homemade cocktails such as The Oregon Anjou. Add to sparkling water when the urge strikes for a dry, complex soda.

A complex fall salad that can act as a full meal.

Green Anjou pears are put on the pedestal they deserve in this flavorful cocktail with handcrafted Pinot Gris syrup.

A classic preparation of wild mushrooms, full of rich flavor.

This mulled cider is brightly flavored with ginger and lemon grass.

What’s your favorite meal? Send us a drawing, and be entered to win fabulous, amazing prizes! Ages 5-12.