Reminder: Design the Food Web Jan 25th @9:30am

Designing the Food Web (Lincoln County)

Saturday, January 25

9:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Flowerree Community Center

321 SE 3rd Street, Toledo

The purpose of this convening is to learn what our farmers and growers believe are the most significant assets, opportunities, challenges, and barriers in our current food system. As an attendee, you will have the opportunity to discuss the design of your food web, meet with other folks growing food in your community, learn more about Ten Rivers Food Web, and enjoy lunch on us! We truly need your voice to help us create the strongest food system possible! 

Learn more and register here!

For more information, or to register by phone, please contact Cassie at (541) 224-6735.

*Please note, you are welcome to attend any one of our Designing the Food Web convenings, regardless of the county you live or grow food in.

Katy AlexanderCommunity Organizer | Outreach Coordinator

Ten Rivers Food Web
Cell: (541) 224-8095

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Home » Winter 2014

Salad wall garden in a small space

This is an old idea but still worth considering for a small space

News from OSU Ext. Lincoln Co Foods

WSJ: ....Tucked inside Congress's new trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill is potential regulatory relief for small businesses in agriculture. A recent Journal editorial noted that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been attempting to do an end-run around a law preventing the agency from regulating small farms. The bureaucrats were trying to redefine the farms as grain storage companies to make them eligible for OSHA inspections. But Sen. Mike Johanns says that he now has a bipartisan agreement to clarify that the agency must keep its hands off the family farm.

Lowdown on the kale-thyroid connection

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/01/the-dark-side-of-kale-and-how-to-eat-around-it
from the Oregon State University Micronutrient Information site:

Very high intakes of cruciferous vegetables…have been found to cause hypothyroidism (insufficient thyroid hormone) in animals (68). There has been one case report of an 88-year-old woman developing severe hypothyroidism and coma following consumption of an estimated 1.0 to 1.5 kg/day of raw bok choy for several months. Two mechanisms have been identified to explain this effect. The hydrolysis of some glucosinolates found in cruciferous vegetables (e.g., progoitrin) may yield a compound known as goitrin, which has been found to interfere with thyroid hormone synthesis. The hydrolysis of another class of glucosinolates, known as indole glucosinolates, results in the release of thiocyanate ions, which can compete with iodine for uptake by the thyroid gland. Increased exposure to thiocyanate ions from cruciferous vegetable consumption or, more commonly, from cigarette smoking, does not appear to increase the risk of hypothyroidism unless accompanied by iodine deficiency. One study in humans found that the consumption of 150 g/day (5 oz/day) of cooked Brussels sprouts for four weeks had no adverse effects on thyroid function.

 http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/foods/cruciferous/