The detailed timeline highlights several important trends. First, the dominance of the period of settler colonization, which began in the early 1800s. This period was critical as it began the expropriation of indigenous lands for settler agriculture, and began establishing territorial processes of racialized labor. Second, our research highlights that beginning in the 1980s there began an alternative food movement in the Willamette Valley. Key organizations involved at a local scale include migrant farmworkers organization Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), the Eugene Farmers’ Market, the University of Oregon Urban Farm, and the Food for Lane County Youth Farm. In the early 2000s, expanding interest in urban agriculture led to the origination of the Latinx Huerto de La Familia organization, and the Rogue Farm Corps. The creation of these organizations heralded a broader cultural shift, which is our third major finding. This shift involved the increasing participation of young new farmers, and BIPOC (Black Indigenous and People Of Color) farmers. Our last trend was the importance of COVID; for many organizations, COVID provided somewhat of a boon, as organizations were able to get access to new sources of funding, and had rapidly expanding interest from new volunteers. However, for other organizations, such as Food Not Bombs, COVID and the necessary social precautions decimated the organizations’ capacity. In the current phase of “post-COVID,” certain organizations, such as HDLF (Huerto de La Familia) are expanding operations and opening new farming sites, whereas others are pushing for legislative changes, i.e. supplemental food access for all regard.