Oregon Permaculture Works
Vendor
About
Oregon Permaculture Works is a small business with a focus on farming, foraging, and fermenting local food in a sustainable and waste-free manner via ethical design. Vasily Gouliouk runs the operation out of Corvallis while working on a graduate degree in inorganic chemistry at OSU. With ~30 years of experience foraging for wild edible mushrooms OPW offers a wide variety ethically foraged from eastern Cascades all the way to the coast. Vasily also guides mushroom foraging classes to teach others how to safely find, identify, cook, store, etc. the wonderful bounty that grows in the forests of Oregon. OPW also specializes in farming with zero-inputs and permaculture design with a focus on rare berries like heirloom varieties of black currant, red currant, gooseberries, etc.
Production Practices
Integrated Pest Management Extended Growing Season Use Only Organic Materials Non Gmo Perennial Crops Permaculture Design Holistic Management Cover Crops No Till Uncultivated Landscape Management Polyculture Design
OPW practices ethical design of sustainable food production systems to provide high quality local food. Our main passion and goal is to connect local production directly to local consumers. Our foraging operation focuses on ethical harvest of local wild choice edible mushrooms, We specialize in providing a large variety of clean mushrooms earlier and later in the season and on a consistent basis. OPW is currently selling local wild mushrooms direct to consumers, at farmers’ markets, to restaurants, grocery stores, and have recently expanded into CSA programs. Our farming practices include beyond-organic land management with several years of striving for zero-input production. This includes the complete absence of use of irrigation, fertilizers, and all biocides. This is facilitated with intentionally designed permaculture systems that focus on high perennial diversity. We utilize chickens in chicken-tractor systems in order to improve the fertility of our soil food web. We encourage customer certification of our operations with full transparency.