Organic: 

    “A watershed where water is abundant, cool, and clean; where natural systems that
create and sustain fish and wildlife and their habitat are respected; and where a
healthy economy is compatible with healthy native fish and wildlife populations.”   

    - Hood River Watershed Plan, 2008

 

 

New York Times 03/05/2011:

In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges

 

 

  

 

 

   

2007 2008-09 2008-10 2010 2011 2012
Two hundred pounds of native Cascadian wild flower seeds planted.

 		Water run off filtered through native grasses.

 Lower Creeks restored with native plants, improved erosion control allows passage of run-off from the East Ridge and farm into the creeks. Wetland preserved for native flora and fauna. Four thousand five hundred native conifer trees planted. Fifteen hundred native deciduous trees planted.

 Elimination of the use of spray pesticides.