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Join us at the Art House on April 23rd at 6:30pm for a viewing of "The Jungle", a documentary about meat, greed, and profit. Following the movie there will be a panel (panelist's bios below). Buy tickets here, tickets will be going quickly!
MODERATOR Lilli DiPaola is the Stand Up to Factory Farms Coalition organizer. The coalition is a group of local, state, and national organizations concerned about the ongoing expansion of factory farming and its harmful impacts to Oregon’s climate, family farms, communities, air & water, and animal welfare. The coalition is currently working together to pass legislation to stop new or expanding factory farms in Oregon’s groundwater management areas. |
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PANELISTS
Aimee Stone is the Oregon organizer for Food & Water Watch, an environmental organization focused on protecting people from corporations that put profits ahead of everything else. In Oregon, our campaign is focused on putting an end to factory farming for the sake of protecting our communities, our environment, and our independent farming communities. We are currently running a bill in the Oregon legislature with allies in the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition that would place an immediate moratorium on large CAFOs in Oregon’s three critical groundwater management areas.
Laura Wayte works as the customer service manager at Full Farm CSA, the retail CSA of Deck Family Farm. She also writes the website blog and creates all the email marketing which keeps our membership up to date about farm news. A lifelong gardener and chicken keeper, Laura is happy to be working on a real farm and educating our community about healthier foods.
Adam Daesen has lived and worked at Deck Family Farm for 4 years, currently running the farmers markets and wholesale sides of the business. He started as a working student and has engaged with all the facets of the livestock business. His future interests include broadening his engagement in regenerative agriculture management and playing a key role in the turning tide of healthful food production.
Paul Atkinson- I am a 73-year-old farmer who has lived on, and helped care for, our 50-acre family farm near Crow, Oregon since 1964. I earned a degree in Animal Production from OSU in 1974 after starting a unique beef breeding program with my father in 1972 to produce beef on grass and mother’s milk by 10 months of age. We were anticipating that by the 1980s feedlot, grain-fed beef would not be viable.
Multi-species grass-based production has been the thrust of my Laughing Stock Farm business since 1988. Species include: dairy goats, laying hens, hogs, sheep, turkeys, and beef cattle, along with a large garden area. We have used no chemical input on the land since about 1980. The property is under a conservation easement with a stated mission of feeding and powering at least a family from on-site sources, while enhancing habitat for all geographically and climatically appropriate flora and fauna. The path to that end is ever evolving as we continue to learn what methods and animal populations can be sustained while we care for this farm.
Aimee Stone is the Oregon organizer for Food & Water Watch, an environmental organization focused on protecting people from corporations that put profits ahead of everything else. In Oregon, our campaign is focused on putting an end to factory farming for the sake of protecting our communities, our environment, and our independent farming communities. We are currently running a bill in the Oregon legislature with allies in the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition that would place an immediate moratorium on large CAFOs in Oregon’s three critical groundwater management areas.
Laura Wayte works as the customer service manager at Full Farm CSA, the retail CSA of Deck Family Farm. She also writes the website blog and creates all the email marketing which keeps our membership up to date about farm news. A lifelong gardener and chicken keeper, Laura is happy to be working on a real farm and educating our community about healthier foods.
Adam Daesen has lived and worked at Deck Family Farm for 4 years, currently running the farmers markets and wholesale sides of the business. He started as a working student and has engaged with all the facets of the livestock business. His future interests include broadening his engagement in regenerative agriculture management and playing a key role in the turning tide of healthful food production.
Paul Atkinson- I am a 73-year-old farmer who has lived on, and helped care for, our 50-acre family farm near Crow, Oregon since 1964. I earned a degree in Animal Production from OSU in 1974 after starting a unique beef breeding program with my father in 1972 to produce beef on grass and mother’s milk by 10 months of age. We were anticipating that by the 1980s feedlot, grain-fed beef would not be viable.
Multi-species grass-based production has been the thrust of my Laughing Stock Farm business since 1988. Species include: dairy goats, laying hens, hogs, sheep, turkeys, and beef cattle, along with a large garden area. We have used no chemical input on the land since about 1980. The property is under a conservation easement with a stated mission of feeding and powering at least a family from on-site sources, while enhancing habitat for all geographically and climatically appropriate flora and fauna. The path to that end is ever evolving as we continue to learn what methods and animal populations can be sustained while we care for this farm.