Portland's Urban Growth Boundary has slowed the development of surrounding farmland, but it has not stopped it. What must we do to protect this essential resource?

No Slow Food Without Farmland!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
5:30–7:00 p.m.

Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave, 2nd floor
Portland, OR 97209
$10–$15
rsvp@slowfoodportland.com

This event explores the critical link between the outstanding foods we buy at our local farmers’ markets and the ongoing challenges of land-use planning in the metro area.

Jim Johnson, Land Use Specialist at Oregon Department of Agriculture, and Mary Kyle McCurdy from 1000 Friends of Oregon will lead a discussion of these issues and explore some new and innovative techniques to help us better protect our fertile local farmland. Both Jim and Mary Kyle have been working to protect Oregon’s farmland for decades.

Land-use planning in Oregon has done a good job of slowing development on farmland but none of this valuable land is actually permanently protected.

We are fortunate in the Willamette Valley to have some of the best farmland in the world. If we want to keep eating local what must we do to protect this essential resource?

Presented by Slow Food Portland.