Adelante Mujeres, based in Portland, Oregon, holistically educates and empowers low-income Latina women and their families.

Ayers Creek farm has started a new tradition of parching fresh wheat each summer to make frikeh (freekeh), a middle eastern traditional grain. Once burnt the wheat must be dried or milled and cooked right away. Local restaurants who appreciate unique, local foods, love to add it to the menu during the season.

Dancing Roots farm is a vegetable farm just outside Portland, Oregon which specializes in heirloom vegetables. Shari and Brian supply many local restaurants with vegetables and also offer CSA boxes for the community.

Diggin' Roots is an organic farm that offers a CSA basket in Mollala, Oregon

Gathering Together Farm in Corvallis, Oregon is one of the oldest organic farms in the region. It supplies food to farmers markets, restaurants, and CSA members.

La Finquita del Buho is a CSA farm located in Helvetia, Oregon.

Our Table Cooperative provides healthy, sustainable, food to the communities near Portland, Oregon.

Persephone Farm is located on a beautiful piece of land in Lebanon, Oregon. Elanor and Jeff are down-to-earth farmers that grows in accord with mother nature's cycles, meaning they don't use green houses to get extend the growing season. They've been farming organically and sustainably for over 27 years.  Jeff's Allis-Charmers tractor has been converted and now runs on solar energy instead of fossil fuels. In addition to selling to restaurants and grocery stores, you can find them at farmers markets in Salem and Portland. Many of these photos were taken with film using my Hasselblad which seemed like a good fit to Persephone's analog philosophy of farming and living.

Red Dog Farm is a woman-owned, certified organic, vegetable farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. They have over 150 varietes of vegetables, berries and cut flowers throughout the year. They offer a CSA program and sell produce at local farmers markets.

Josh Volk of Slow Hand Farm on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon farms organically and offers CSA boxes year round.

Stacey Givens is a chef who also grows a lot of her own food. She owns and runs Side Yard Farm in the Cully neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Guests come to the farm to eat locally grown, organic vegetables that are cooked by Stacey and her crew.

Year round photos from a Master Gardeners vegetable garden in Portland, Oregon