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

During the month of October, all new subscribers to Edible Portland will be entered to win a Heritage Turkey, generously provided by Deck Family Farm, and just in time for Thanksgiving!

Join us in selecting the 2010 Local Heroes of our regional food system. Click here to vote!

Stop by Coelho Winery for a $15 chocolate and wine flight.

The 6th Annual Hood River Hops Fest is one of three fresh hops festivals in Oregon.

In Good Taste hosts a series of reflective and educational classes by local chef Amy Jermain. This Saturday’s class focuses on the aquaculture and fisherman of Oregon.

Celebrate the Indian New Year with a special tasting menu at East India Company Grill and Bar.

Connect with our House Representative Mitch Greenlick to discuss how Portland citizens, both farmers and eaters, are stakeholders in agriculture policy.

Andina will host three-course dinners featuring Novo-Peruvian cuisine and a live performance by acclaimed Portland musicians.

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

Join the Alberta Co-op Grocery’s Community Engagement Committee and Oregon Food Bank for an afternoon of sharing ideas and moving into action on projects!

Join award-winning Harold McGee as he reads from “Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Food and Recipes.”

Get informed about factory farming at this month’s InFARMation session.

The Northwest’s, and possibly the world’s, largest exhibit of fall fruit varieties.

Fun will include a salmon cook-off, vegetable preservation, cooking demos, a fall BBQ, a wine and beer garden, and plenty of kid-friendly entertainment.

There’s still time to squeeze a last round of greens into our gardens, and October is the month to plant garlic for harvest next summer!

Wildwood’s Executive Chef Dustin Clark and Thailand’s Sonthaya Kaepradit collaborate with wine pairings from the Willamette Valley’s Chehalem Winery and a special performance from Concert Violinist Aaron Meyer.

Participants will delve into traditional foodways of Pacific Northwest Native Americans like food caches, berry collecting, pemmican, and fruit leathers.

The Greenhorns and Friends of Family Farmers are co-hosting an event for new and beginning farmers.

Prepare to be mesmerized by Ramana Vieira, the new voice of Fada Portugese world music, as she performs live in the Coelho Winery Tasting Room. Vieira’s extraordinarily soulful, emotive voice is said to evoke images of old world Portugal.

Natural Harvest Farm, run by the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust (OSALT), invites the public to its annual Harvest Festival. Bring the family and enjoy a farm tour, bee walk, cider pressing, and conversations on sustainable agriculture.

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. 

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!

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.

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.

InFARMation (and Beer!) has a new home at Holocene. This month’s presentation: “My Bank Made Me Quit Farming.”

Join Ecotrust, Edible Portland and Salmon Safe for a celebration of Northwest abundance, seasonal flavors, and responsible land stewardship in a round-robin evening of artisanal wine, pear and cheese pairings.

Savor the art, science and flavors of local mushrooms at Lake Quinault Lodge.

September 16th is 5% Day! All day long, 5% of the net sales from the Fremont, Laurelhurst, Bridgeport, and Mill Plain Whole Foods Markets will go to Ecotrust’s Farm to School program.

“Washing” the rind of a ripening cheese — often with flavorful liquids like wine or beer — encourages the growth of specific bacteria that help ripen and enhance the cheese’s flavor.

Have experience with fruit trees, but want to know more? Join Portland Parks and Recreation for a fun and relaxing field trip.

Join Farmington Gardens for this free class, where you’ll learn about fall garden chores that will make your garden healthier and more productive next season.

*THIS JUST IN: There will also be a BEE COSTUME CONTEST on Sept. 18th!* Don’t miss the Portland premier of Queen of the Sun at Hollywood Theatre. From the director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John comes a profound, alternative look at the tragic global bee crisis.

Mushroom preparation and preservation, toxic mushroom information, demonstrations of dyeing with mushrooms, a truffle exhibit, mushroom themed art, and much more!

In Good Taste hosts a series of reflective and educational classes by local chef Amy Jermain. This Saturday’s class highlights the best of Oregon’s eastern half — including the locally produced beef, mushrooms and potatoes.

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.

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.

Come to the launch of Kelly Rodgers and Kelley Roy’s “Cartopia: Portland’s Food Cart Revolution.”

Enjoy a $15 Wine Flight, which pairs Oregon farmstead cheeses with Coelho’s favorite holiday wines.

Get a first hand look at how olive oil is made, enjoy tastes of a variety of freshly-pressed olive oils, and sample warm bruschetta at the Oregon Olive Mill.

Spread holiday cheer with homemade gifts from the kitchen.

Bring kraut, try kraut. Bring miso, try miso. Come out for Portland’s fermented food and drink skill sharing, recipe sharing, and tasting event of the year.

PROST! Raise your beer stein and celebrate Oktoberfest to help raise a roof for Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East.

Celebrate the year’s successes and help raise the funds vital to Zenger Farm’s work — educating youth and adults about where good food comes from!

Indulge @ the Jupiter invites guests to savor, sip and nibble on the Eastside’s finest foods. The premier edible event stars chef-owned restaurants, boutique wines and spirits, artisan chocolatiers and the best tasty treats from over 20 local restaurants and distilleries.

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!

Taste some of the country’s most interesting spirits, learn about everything from whiskey to gin and meet distillers one on one at the premier gathering of craft distillers in the country.

Farmington Gardens is hosting its annual Halloween Family Festival! Kids of all ages will enjoy lots of old-fashioned fun…

Farmington Gardens will host a day of gardening fun for kids ages 4-12. This is a free class!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Macaron Madness hits Portland! A flavor contest, a Magical Treasure Chest and over thirty macaron flavors to sample — even macaron ice cream sandwiches!

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.

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.