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The seventh annual Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry event will be Saturday, November 12th at the OSU-Extension parking lot at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds from 11am to 3pm. Fill Your Pantry is a community bulk buying event created so Central Oregonians can fill up their pantries, freezers, root cellars, and garages full of nutritious local products for the long high desert winter. Farmers, ranchers, orchardists, and producers will be selling large quantities of items: 10lb bags of onions, 20lb boxes of apples, mixed boxes of grass fed beef, gallon jars of kraut, etc. All items will be at di...

Drought and river conservation measures have left Central Oregon farmers with less water — though some are harder hit than others.

Guest Opinion: Water laws in Oregon As a local farmer in Central Oregon, I am writing today out of desperation, out of panic, and from...