Food Roots

05/28/2026

We're excited to share about new growth happening in your North Oregon Coast food community! Read all about it at foodrootsnw.org

05/18/2026

03/05/2026

A restaurant in Oceanside, Willy's, is being opened next week by a wife-and-husband team of experienced restaurateurs who originally reached out to Food Roots so they can source as local as possible. They are wonderfully kind and creative and are looking for staff! The cook positions are for 5 6-hour shifts and a compensation of $18-20/hr plus tips. The server position is for 4 5-hour shifts with a compensation of $15.05/hr plus tips. The owners will not get tips, so they anticipate the tips being generous and shared equally. Willy’s will be a seasonal restaurant operating from March to November. The restaurant will be dinners only (4pm to 9pm) but may open for lunch at some point. If you're interested, email [email protected].

Los puestos de cocinera son para 5 turnos de 6 horas y una compensación de 18-20 $/hora más propinas. El puesto de camarero es para 4 turnos de 5 horas con una remuneración de 15,05 $/hora más propinas. Los propietarios no recibirán propinas, así que esperamos que las propinas sean generosas y compartidas por igual. Willy's será un restaurante de temporada que funcionará de marzo a noviembre. El restaurante solo se ofrece para cenar (de 16:00 a 21:00), pero puede abrir para la comida en algún momento. [email protected]

01/22/2026

RSVP by January 25th to join us for either of these free events! Featuring a facilitated speed-dating-styled session to connect buyers and sellers, a mini speaker session, and resources!

12/19/2025

Thanks to grant funding from the Kiwanis Club of Tillamook and Columbia Pacific CCO, Food Roots staff and TELC and Head Start students had an incredible time teaching and learning how to make a locally-sourced squash sauce from scratch and grate local Asiago cheese for a winter season pizza! So many students practiced their scooping, mashing, pouring, and grating skills, and were curious enough to try this new food. The grant funding also provided them with take-home recipe kits--an opportunity to fine-tune their skills making it and then eating it with their families! (And a beautiful job done by the choirs--what harmony!)

12/03/2025

A misprint in the Tillamook County Giving Guide that has reached your mailboxes displays last year's information. We invite you to engage in our actual 2025 showcase with the active QR code, key impacts from this past year, and the email address to reach us! To all of you who have been involved with us this past year--activity participants, partners, donors, and volunteers--thank you! To those learning about Food Roots, we look forward to connecting with you!

12/03/2025

Today, on Giving Tuesday, nourish your neighbors with nutrient-filled foods sourced from your neighborhood farmers, fishers, ranchers, and food-makers.

Tillamook County food producers are a resource unlike any other: they enhance our local economy, help protect our environment, and fortify and fuel our minds and bodies. How? They spend money they earn locally just like you—at your own businesses, or at your place of employment. And did you know, the average produce in grocery stores travel 1,500 miles to reach us? Canned and boxed foods also travel a mighty distance. In addition, many, if not all, Tillamook County farmers grow produce without pesticides, and ranch cattle and sheep without chemical fertilizers. Small-scale farm food is also more nutrient-dense than produce that traveled those 1,500 miles, giving us more energy and nurturing sharp minds.

That’s why Food Roots consistently takes an active role in purchasing foods directly from Tillamook County farmers, fishers, ranchers, and food-makers, and delivering them directly to other Tillamook County families.

From recipe-making activities in the classroom with Tillamook pre-k students who are then sent home with recipes and the ingredients to put on their table that evening, to home deliveries, there’s nothing like helping local farmers feed local families. We love learning what fresh ingredients families prefer to cook with, and ensuring that we provide as many of those as possible.

Today, we invite you to take an active role in nourishing and supporting your neighbors by helping Food Roots continue this work. Either through contributing a tax-deductible financial gift, or by signing up as a volunteer to help us portion ingredients, pack and hand out meal kits, write grants, or participate in other activities. Both support us in nourishing our community from the ground up.

With gratitude,

The Food Roots team

12/02/2025

For both food industry buyers and vendors, this engaging webinar will supply you with contract templates you need. Food Roots, in partnership with and farmers, developed contract templates to make establishing bulk sales easier for both small-scale vendors and local buyers. The contracts include language that simultaneously addresses challenges small-scale farmers, ranchers, and value-added product producers face when filling bulk orders, and the needs of the buying entity.

12/01/2025

We're accepting applications through December 15th! In partnership with CASA of Oregon, Food Roots is again operating the Individual Development Account, a match-savings and business education program for aspiring or expanding food business entrepreneurs. foodrootsnw.org/ida