The following story for NeighborhoodNotes.com was the first of three I wrote in 2010 exploring the growing local interest in DIY food—in this case, the small farmers raising animals for meat, the people teaching how to buy and cook it, and the people teaching DIY butchering.
A Love Affair with (Locally Raised) Meat: Buying, Cooking, and Butchering it in Portland
This story for NeighborhoodNotes.com investigates the growing interest in gluten-free diets and features interviews with a naturopath, a nutrition educator and counselor, and a staff nutritionist at New Seasons Market.
Gluten-Free Products and Awareness on the Rise
People 55 and over have been especially hard hit by the current economic downturn, but a growing number are reinventing their working lives through a trend becoming known as Encore Careers. For a NeighborhoodNotes.com story, I interviewed five Portlanders who made this transition.
Encore Careers Are Reenergizing People 50 and Over
Brian Kurth, founder/owner of Vocation Vacations, asked me to write a guest blog for him about new directions in food and farming careers that his readers might want to consider:
Organic Food! Farm to Fork Careers!
A church in outer East Portland strengthens its diverse neighborhood through replacing 5,000 square feet of lawn with community garden plots for people who live in nearby apartments. I interviewed the grants manager, pastor and gardeners for this story that appeared in The Oregonian.
