Listen Up! It’s The New Market & Garden Report

Photo by Guy Hand

After a long, lingering winter, Spring has finally sprung here in southern Idaho.  To celebrate, NPR’s Edible Idaho is trying something new:

A weekly radio show called The Market & Garden Report.

Every Friday morning beginning April 30th during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), producer Guy Hand will bring you the news on what’s fresh and interesting at the area’s farmers’ markets. We’ll also gather timely tips on how to plant your own garden and grow you’re own food.

Photo by Guy Hand

One week The Market & Garden Report will explore Boise’s Capital City Public Market.  We’ll talk to vendors about their best, most unique products (often focusing on those mystery vegies that most of us haven’t tried or know how to cook). We’ll get recipes from area chefs, let you know when your favorite berries are in season and alert you to upcoming events at farmers’ markets all around the Treasure Valley.

Photo by Guy Hand

The following week — for those of you who’d like to get your hands dirty — we’ll head out to Peaceful Belly Farms. There Clay and Josie Erskine will let us sneak into their very popular gardening class. They’ll teach us about heirloom tomatoes, compost piles and what to do about all those pesky bugs.

So, one week the Market, the next week the Garden. From Springtime to Fall harvest. That’s what Edible Idaho’s Market & Garden Report is all about.  Whether you grow your own food or pick it at the area’s farmers’ markets, the show will help you make the most of this bright new growing season.

Listen every Friday morning on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5) from April 30th all the way to the frosty end of October.

And stay tuned to the regular Edible Idaho program the first Monday of every month.  As it has for the last four years, Edible Idaho will continue to explore in-depth issues about Idaho food and agriculture on Boise State Radio.

Of course,  Edible Idaho and  the new Market & Garden Report will be available on-line, anytime, right here on Northwest Food News.

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