OUR WORK

Oregon Rural Action is leading the way in enhancing and developing local Farmers’ markets throughout northeastern Oregon.

Oregon Rural Action members have implemented a Food Literacy educational curriculum to be taught to La Grande 1st graders. Once a month, members of Oregon Rural Action volunteer to teach classes about where our food comes from and the various ways in which it is grown and produced.

As part of a coalition of family farm and environmental groups, Oregon Rural Action is working to make Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) comply to the Federal Clean Air Act and allow rural neighbors of these factory farms have a say in their location.

Oregon Rural Action is working to increase access to healthy, locally grown meat.  Click here to read more about this campaign.

Blue Mountain Chapter Members have a community garden to assist in the healthy food needs of low-income people in our area.

Social Justice

Working with the Heinz Corporation, members of the Snake River Chapter of Oregon Rural Action have significantly increased the availability of food at all the Malheur County area food pantries.

Snake River Chapter members uncovered significant racial and personal bias within their local Malheur County Food Stamp Program and successfully implemented policy and procedure changes to insure fair and equitable treatment of all.

Oregon Rural Action is part of a state-wide coalition advocating for fundamental health care reform and lobbying our local state representatives to support measures to increase access to health care for our rural Eastern Oregon residents.

Locally Generated, Clean, Renewable Energy

Oregon Rural Action sponsored two community forums on residential solar hot water heating systems resulting in fourteen homes in Baker and Union counties converting their homes existing electric or gas hot water heaters to a solar.

Oregon Rural Action members are addressing Climate Change! Due in part to the testimonies and letters of our members Oregon now has in place the most comprehensive Renewable Energy Standard in the nation. Many Eastern Oregon counties are already reaping the economic benefits of renewable energy development such as wind energy, biomass and biofuels production.

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