LocavOregon celebrates local food, wine, and travel in the Pacific Northwest.
Wendy Bumgardner is native to Northwest Oregon. She grew up in the farming area of Verboort, Oregon and picked strawberries, marionberries, pole beans and cucumbers all summer for profit from the age of six.
After graduating from the University of Portland as a Life Sciences/Medical Technology Bachelor of Science, she worked in health care in the Portland area for 33 years before retiring from the day job to continue as a full-time writer.
Writing
- Writing Portfolio: Examples of recent articles on travel, food and walking.
- LocavOregon.com: Covering local foods and travel in the Pacific Northwest, with some jaunts abroad.
- Walking Expert at About.com: Wendy Bumgardner has been the walking editor/expert since 1996. Walking.about.com shows you how to walk for fitness, weight loss, sightseeing and touring.
- Portland Sustainable Foods Examiner: Wendy Bumgardner reports on sustainable food, craft food, local wine and beer, and the restaurants and chefs in Portland who turn local produce into amazing cuisine.
- Locavoregon Facebook Page
- Locavoregon Twitter
- Locavoregon Instagram
- Email to walking at teleport.com
Hello Wendy,
I hope you’re having a great week! Apologies for the long comment, I couldn’t find your email!
My name is Lee, and I’m the Community Engagement Lead for Zomato in Portland. Zomato is a popular online and mobile restaurant discovery platform and social food network with a presence in 22 countries and over 500 cities!
I came across your blog LocavOregon and I would love to meet for a coffee to discuss the Portland food scene and some of the blogger features we offer on Zomato!
Since we’re very different from other restaurant discovery platforms, I wanted to share a few key points that I think differentiate us.
We physically collect information from every single restaurant/cafe/bar in town (menus, photos, pricing, hours, etc) and ensure this information remains up to date. Always!
Our users, better known as “foodies”, have the unique opportunity to interact on our platform. Foodies can rate and review restaurants, upload photos, follow other foodies, and create a trusted network of people whose opinions they value, all of which is based around one common interest and love…Food!
You can also like reviews and photos of other foodies, connect your Instagram/Twitter/Facebook account(s), check-in at restaurants, tag friends, and essentially use Zomato as your own personal social food network!
We’d love for you to be a part of our Zomato Portland community! I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Cheers,
Lee