A Narrative of the University of Oregon Urban Farm

Archives for May, 2014

VOLUNTEERS!

Hello foodies! We at the Urban Farm are increasingly in need of local support and volunteer help, especially during Spring and Summer. If you have taken the class before, or are interested in getting your hands dirty for a few hours, come on out to the Farm on Saturday’s at 10:30am. Typically, we meet at […]

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Breeding Locavores

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles….If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.”   -Barbara Kingsolver Foodies; a term […]

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