Saturday, May 28, 2011

Beaver Ridge Farm Has Young Hens for Sale - $12

Plymouth Barred Rock and White Leghorns. These girls should start laying eggs at the end of July. They have their adult feathers and no longer need a heat light. Fully vaccinated. Free range, farm-raised with organic feed. Call 541-563-5385.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Lincoln Co. Foods Group to meet on June 1st.

The next LC Food Group meeting will be held on
June 1st from 1 pm to 3 pm
OSU Extension Service Conference Room,
29 SE 2nd St., Newport OR.
Contact: Chloe Rico, chloe.rico@occc.cc.or.us

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point Workshop

Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point (HACCP)
July 7 & 8, 2011
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
238 Wiegand Hall
OSU Campus • Corvallis, OR 97331

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
For more information: 800.823.2357

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foodsci/extservices/HACCP_reginfo.htm

OSU Department of Food Science & Technology Extension Service proudly announces the following educational opportunity. Please forward this information to anyone who may be interested in this workshop.

Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point
A workshop for small entrepreneurial processors
of fruit, vegetable and grain based foods

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Beaver Ridge Farm Has Natural Lambs and Poultry

Beaver Ridge Farm, located on North Beaver Creek, offers natural lambs, will have organically fed poultry, and will be selling started pullets as soon as they can be sexed and are ready to go. If interested, folks should call 541-563-5385. Costs will vary depending on age of chicken at sale (feed costs affect cost of the chicken). We will also have organic eggs for sale in the fall - not yet sorry.
New email address for the farm: beaverridgefarm@gmail.com.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

LC Community F.E.A.S.T. deemed a Success

Lincoln County Community FEAST (Food*Education*Agriculture*Solutions*Together) Workshop was held on Saturday, April 2nd from 10am to 4pm at the Oregon Coast Community College with a local foods lunch provided. The FEAST workshop, organized by Chloe Rico, TRFW's RARE grant recipient, co-hosted by the Lincoln Co. Extension Local Foods and the Lincoln County Local Foods Group, and facilitated by Sharon Thornberry, Community Food Systems Manager at Oregon Food Bank, is a way to gather input about the direction our community wants to see for their food and agriculture.

The day featured a local panel painting the picture of food, fisheries, agriculture, farm to school, education programs, public health and food retail in our area after which workshop broke into focus groups centered around networking & communications, production & processing, education, and access.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Lincoln Co. Local Foods Group Meeting March 30

Fourth meeting of the New Lincoln Co. Local Foods Group will be held on
Date:March 30, 2011
Time: 1:00 -3:00 pm.
Place: Lincoln Co. Extension Office Conference Room
29 SE 2nd St., Newport
For Information Contact: chloe.rico@occc.cc.or.us; 541-867-8672

Friday, March 4, 2011

2nd TRFW Chefs' Show-Off on Sunday, April 10 at Linn-Benton Community College from 2pm -5pm.
For more information: http://tenriversfoodweb.org/home/?p=8567