The chronology of summer in Portland goes something like this: Bike Summer kicks off in June, rivers and lakes get mobbed with paddleboards and partiers in July, and heirloom tomato season shifts into full gear in August. Every restaurant and their mother serves BLTs and caprese salads; fights break out at the farmers market over […]

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Hood strawberries just might be the Portland area’s most famous food product other than Voodoo Doughnuts or Salt and Straw ice cream. But as any local strawberry lover will tell you, Hood season is sweet but painfully short—about ten days, according to Megan Hallstone, vice president of Columbia Farms on Sauvie Island. In fact, Hoods […]

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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-PA) is reportedly planning to roll out an expansion of the H-2A visa program, funneling more foreign workers into United States farm jobs. The move is likely to disincentivize farms from turning to robots and tech as a solution to labor challenges.

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Some Western Slope growers are taking advantage of the “downward compensation adjustment.” Others say they’ll be profitable without it.

This small West Yorkshire farmhouse was built some time before 1567, and initially consisted of a single farm (known as Withens Farm) before being expanded into three farms known as Top, Middle, and Bottom Withens in 1591. Centuries later, the farm was still in use in the 1840s when Yorkshire native Emily Brontë wrote her novel "Wuthering Heights", initially published under the pseudonym Ellis…