festival in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Yamhill Watershed Council to celebrate camas, or camassia plant, which was once prolific in the region and a prolific food source for the local tribes. Linfield's McMinnville campus has a patch of camas growing on it that faculty and students have restored.
=== NW Media Fest ===
NW Media Fest is a multiple-day event featuring guests from across the media and entertainment industry, which started in 2022. Guests have included chef Susan Feniger, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Steve Kurkjian, photographer Joey Terrill, Warner Brothers Discovery executive Peter Clem, Dark Horse Comics CEO and founder Mike Richardson, and filmmaker and composer Liz Lachman.
=== Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium ===
Former Linfield President Charles Walker secured several grants in 1981 to endow a permanent endowment fund dedicated to bringing Nobel laureates to McMinnville. The symposium evolved out of a lecture series organized by Bill Apel, then the …
