Join the Culinary Breeding Network at Wellspent Market on Saturday, September 16th between 11 am - 3 pm for the third annual Tomato Fest! Taste dry farmed tomatoes (and melon), talk with chefs and farmers, and more. This event is open to the public and will showcase locally grown produce.
Sustainability In The News
Sustainable September: Keep up to date with the latest news about dry farming, water and sustainable agriculture.
Brooks Wine Named #28 of the World’s Best Vineyards
One of our members in the news!
Dry farm researchers’ new mapping project will give Oregon growers a resource by Brian Bull for KLCC/NPR
Read about the new dry farm mapping project helmed by Lucas Nebert of OSU and the Dry Farming Institute.
The next pandemic could strike crops, not people by Saima Sidik for Grist
Learn how our modern commodity farming could be devastated by the next pandemic.
These five cities could be one natural disaster away from a catastrophic water crisis by Rachel Ramirez and Eric Levenson of CNN
The drinking water crisis in the USA explored.
When Drought Gripped Minnesota in 2021, Farmers Increased Water Usage by Dionne Searcey and Mira Rojanasakul of the NYT
This article explores how irrigation was overused in response to the 2021 drought in Minnesota, threatening local drinking water supplies, and how this crisis is likely to be repeated.
Corn, Dry Farming, and Oregon
Learn about Amy Garrett's and Dr. Lucas Nebert's dry farming research in Oregon. Garrett is the head of the Dry Farming Institute who collaborates frequently with Dr. Nebert, a dryland farming researcher. Both have done extensive research on corn, tomatoes, and other produce, including field studies funded by SARE and research with OSU. Read a profile on their work and listen to their interview by Geoff Norcross of OPB's Think Out Loud here. Don't miss another article by OPB on Dr. Nebert's work studying the dry farming of corn here.
Dry Farming in the News
Start your Monday off with some fresh off the press news! Check out these recently published articles discussing the dry farming and grape growing in Oregon.
Oregon State researchers make breakthrough in understanding the chemistry of wildfire smoke in wine by Sean Nealon of Oregon State University
Explore cutting edge research into smoke tainted grapes by Oregon State University and Washington State University.
Farmers, gardeners collaborate on dry farming in Oregon by Elizabeth Castillo of Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB); interview by Geoff Norcross of OPB’s Think Out Loud
OPB explores work being done by the Dry Farming Collaborative through an interview with the founder and board president of the Dry Farming Institute, Amy Garrett. The Dry Farming Institute is an Oregon organization focused on promoting dry farming through marketing assistance, seed stewardship, and collaborations with growers and researchers.
