Quick Start to Keeping Kurrent

Our lives are busy. Keeping Kurrent is the place where you can listen to short, reasonably in depth interviews and presentations about a variety of issues, ideas and trends are helpful to you. You are invited to take a quick look some of the broad issues we cover by clicking on the items listed below. Or, you can also examine the details for each category by checking the statements on the right hand side of this page.

• Quality Communities
• Fine Arts
• Education
• Environment
• Travel
• Your Health Matters
• Seniors and Boomers Speak Up

Food Security -What does food security mean and how does it apply to our eating habits and pocket values. Keeping Kurrent will explore a variety of issues including farmer's markets, sustainable food processing, farm resources, and organizations that examine food security. Take a look at the Food Security web page.

Pramod Parjuli, Professor at Portland State University, teaches students how to apply the principles of Sustainability to Portland School's elementary students. University students teach these youngsters how to plant gardens that employ less water, produce organic vegetables.

Find out more about this PSU program by looking at their website

Oregon Farmers' Markets Shine

If you have pictures of your favorite market send to Wayne Potter, the host of Keeping Kurrent. Not all markets have a web site and it would be exciting to have all the markets identified.

Benedictine Sisters offer their Monastery Mustards once again at the Beaverton Farmer's Market. Thousands of visitors come to this favorite market to meet neighbors, eat their favorite foods, and buy local produce, flowers, locally produced honey, peanut brittle, and the like. There is a substantial amount of organic fruits and vegetables.

Gloria's Tasty Salsas will be available beginning May 13, 2006 also at t he Beaverton Farmer's Market. She is also selling them through New Seasons grocery stores.

Time in Portland, Oregon

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Page last modified on Oct. 5, 2009.

Making Wine Naturally

Who makes wine from the grapes without any additives? You'll find a local, Washington winery, Klickatat Canyon Winery located in Lyle, Washington. Meet Robin Dobson, the owner and vintner. He also grows grapes for his wines. He actually stomps on the grapes with his feet to produce the juice. If you visit there during that time you may help produce the grape juice. He produces about 600 cases of wine each year without the use of any mechanized equipment except for a pump that moves wine from one storage container to another. He also uses some local grapes for making some of his wine. Listen to him tell why he prefers to produce wine this way.

Robin Dobson, owner and vintner, Klickitat Canyon Winery. The winery produces wine naturally.
Look at the winery's web site at Klickitat Canyon Winery.

Hear Dobson talk about the winery.

Grape Growers and Wineries Seek Sustainable Certification from LIVE

A growing number of Oregon and Washington wineries want to have their wineries classified as utilizing sustainable standards. These standards are listed by LIVE (Low Input Vinticulture and Enology {study of wines}). The organization has certified about 25% of all grape growers in Oregon. Check on their activities at LIVE.

Sustainable standards are established by the International Organization for Biological Control, IOBC. See their website at IOBC. LIVE has been certified by IOBC, therefore allowing LIVE wines to be internationally certified as sustainable. Also listen to Allen Holstein, a LIVE board member and grape grower, talk about the certification process describe the Oregon and Washington growers who have been certified.

Are There Benefits of Moderate Wine Drinking

Of course, there are benefits. You can find out more about them by listening to this evidence. Check it out.