It’s been a great media month so far for Hotel Monaco Portland.  Last week, the March issue of Travel + Leisure hit the stands and Hotel Monaco’s Mini DaVinci package was included as the “great deal” in Portland.  This morning,  “The Today Show” interviewed T+L’s editor on planning family summer getaways and the Hotel Monaco’s Mini DaVinci package was featured as a great family package available on the West Coast.

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ideabox – bringing lifestyle back to housing.

If you didn’t get the chance to make it out to the Expo Center for the Portland Home & Garden show this past weekend, here’s your second chance to see the ideabox!  This KOIN Keep it Local segment will give you a peek into the modern, energy and resource efficient pre-fab firm known as ideabox. This is a very cool discovery for the urban, eco-conscious homebuyer and all the homes are made right here in Oregon! We were really excited to work with Owner Jim Russell on this project!

To learn more about ideabox or to check out more of there model homes click here.

Keep It Local Host Priya David visited Chef Dustin Clark at Wildwood Restaurant and Bar last week to get some tips on creating more upscale small bites for the Superbowl.  To view the segment on KOIN’s website click here.

Amazing review of Wildwood Restaurant & Bar by Downtown Monthly Editor Janet Filips!  She hit on all of Wildwood’s great offerings – seasonal food and drink with a warm atmosphere.  As we are sad to see that this is the last issue of the Downtown Monthly, we are happy to see this section close with a review of one of Portland’s most well-known and well-loved restaurants.

The Oregonian shares our Watershed Moment.

True to our approach, this strategic article on Steven Smith Teamaker for The Oregonian was well in the works before we even wrote the press release announcing Steven Smith’s return to the tea market.

While we’ve been planting long-term seeds for national media coverage, we were also shaping breaking-news stories for top local media.  At Watershed, we believe it’s  important to give local writers access to local business stories first. Why you ask? Because often they have a deeper understanding of the people and culture behind locally-based businesses, and that insider perspective can help  shape the conversation for future stories.

Great work Leslie! We love your angle. This is a great foundation story to Steven Smith Teamaker, and just the beginning…

Our interest in farmers and the meat they produce dates back to when Watershed Director Lisa Donoughe worked with 5,000 deer farmers in New Zealand to help market their meat in the US – now a fairly common product on restaurant menus. Since that time, we have worked with local farmers, such as Cattail Creek Lamb, to promote their ecologically sound and socially responsible products.

Our active interest in the provenance of meat has spawned a new 2009 event called Livestock. This sister event to Wordstock, is designed to inspire a passionate discussion on killing your dinner.  Livestock is being produced in collaboration with Camas Davis, former food editor of Portland Monthly and founder of the Portland Meat Collective.

Patrick Coleman featured Livestock in an article in the October 8th issue of the Portland Mercury.  In the article, Watershed Director Lisa Donoughe shares her experience of coming face-to-face with her food.

Livestock is scheduled for November 4th and November 11th from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland.  To reserve your tickets please call 503-827-6564.

To view the article online click here.

San Francisco based freelance writer Laura Fraser looked to Watershed for culinary and wine country recommendations when assigned a story on Portland for Frontier Airline’s Wild Blue Yonder magazine. Watershed worked with Laura to craft a story on Portland’s spectacular restaurant scene and Oregon’s beautiful wine country.

Laura uncovers the gems of Portland and Oregon’s wine country in her feature story “Portland in its Prime,” published in the September issue of Wild Blue Yonder.

You can also read this story on Wild Blue Yonder’s website – http://www.gowildblueyonder.com/

Cafe Nell was profiled in the August 21st issue of Just Out.  Cafe Nell serves American Brasserie cuisine and is located in Portland’s Nob Hill.