Food and Agriculture

Deborah Costella, dancer turned chef turned Cosmic Muffin School of Cookery business owner.

Your holiday food scraps leftover from cooking aren’t garbage. The community composting program of one Rogue Valley entrepreneur is turning that waste into a commodity.

Jennifer Jewell, a horticultural journalist, on her book What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds.

In Oregon, about 10 percent of residents struggle with food insecurity. In the Rogue Valley, one nonprofit has found a unique way to help: a free farmers market, open to all.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, Oregon’s cranberry harvest is in full swing. Nearly 3,000 acres of the tiny, tart fruit are grown in the state, with production centered on the scenic South Coast.

The program, funded in large part by taxpayer money, pays farmers when their crop yields decline in an effort to keep the agricultural sector economically stable.

Lori Osborn at the Beverage Barn and Chris Graves at Naumes on The Ground Floor.

Farmers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alberta are all dumping potatoes

The groups unanimously decided to combine resources as the industry contends with low prices.

Will Smith, host of our food podcast, Savor, returns with a focus on the co-op. Mahlea Ramsey, Education Coordinator at the Ashland Food Coop talks with Will about the Coop's Fall Festival, a free, food-filled, family event, that will also help benefit the Friends of the Animal Shelter.

Jackson County Master Gardener and Oregon State Master Gardener of the Year Lynn Kunstman returns for our monthly gardening Q&A

As climate change makes weather patterns more erratic and access to water becomes more politicized, some Oregon farmers are pivoting to a centuries-old practice of growing crops without irrigation.