FEAST to Take Aim at Hunger

Our recent partnership with the Oregon Food Bank to plan and host a series of local conversations around food and food systems was recently highlighted by the La Grande Observer. Check out some of what our Union county organizer, Kagan Koehn, shared about our work:

“In terms of what FEAST can do, in the way we’re looking at with Oregon Rural Action, is to create a really strong network of people in all facets of food that can continue past this grant cycle and can continue to have power to work on projects beyond,” said Kagan Koehn, a community organizer with Oregon Rural Action.

Koehn said a big part of what the FEAST program would be aimed at doing in Union County was organizing local people and resources, helping them communicate, collaborate and find grant funding to tackle local food insecurity.

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