Adrien Schless-Meier is deputy managing editor of Civil Eats and a contributor to the Local Eats series, a column highlighting innovative efforts to create vibrant local food systems across the United States. She is currently an AmeriCorps member at the Multnomah County Office of Sustainability, working on food policy and resource conservation issues in the greater Portland area. She recently completed a social media internship at Ecotrust, a non-profit that brings together economics and ecology to develop models for community development in the Pacific Northwest. Adrien spends much of her spare time working at farmers markets and cycling around the city to make up for her indulgences in the Portland restaurant scene. She tweets on local food and agriculture at @local_eats.
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