By Oregon Family Farm Association

Move over, Maine: Oregon is competing for the maple syrup market. The state’s forestry community, which has traditionally relied on growing, logging, and selling Douglas fir trees, is using new technology—reverse osmosis pumps—to remove water from the sap produced in bigleaf maples to make and market maple syrup, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. Continue reading

By Oregon Family farm Association

A Southern Oregon rancher received a $235,000 grant to market and develop the products from her herd of 80 Tibetan yaks bred and raised on the 200-acre Firebird Farms near Ashland, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. Continue reading

By Oregon Family Farm Association

A “farm to fork” bill introduced in the Oregon Legislature would create a demonstration project in Lane County where farmers could open restaurants to serve food grown on their land, according to KLCC, but opponents say such a bill would urbanize rural areas and increase both traffic and pollution. Continue reading

By Oregon Family Farm Association,

Farmers are two to three times more likely to kill themselves than the general public, according to a study by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which prompted calls to create a suicide helpline for people who work the land, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. Continue reading

(photo: Matt Roloff Instagram)
By Oregon Family Farm Association

Audrey Roloff, the 31-year-old star from the Little People, Big World reality show, shared an Instagram clip from a windy day on her family’s $1.5 million Oregon farm highlighting deer frolicking amid trees on green grass, according to The Sun. Continue reading