Anne Berblinger and her husband Rene’ began farming in the Gales Creek Valley in western Washington County, Oregon in 1999. Gales Meadow Farm currently employs up to seven full-time and part-time employees and produces more than 300 varieties of vegetables and herbs. They market directly to consumers through the Hollywood Farmers Market in Northeast Portland, the Cannon Beach Farmers Market, and the Hillsdale Farmers Market; and through sales to several fine chefs. Early in the season, they sell starts of almost 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs.

Anne is integrally involved in the fresh, local, seasonal food industry cluster in the Portland region through the Farmer-Chef Connection, Slow Food Portland, the Oregon Slow Food Ark of Taste Committee, , and the farmers market community. She serves on advisory committees for Oregon State University’s Small Farm and Local Food Systems Center and North Willamette Research and Education Center, the Oregon Department of Agriculture Specialty Block Grant program, and the Rogue Farm Corps Portland Chapter. She has taught classes on vegetable varieties, seed selection, farmers market success, harvest techniques, and post-harvest handling, and food systems, as well as a series of classes on organic farming and food systems in the Pacific University Environmental Studies Department.