Quick takes and interesting links to food and agriculture in the Northwest
Every great once and a while, a farmer gets off the farm. About as far off the farm as I dare get is onto to someone else’s farm. So when Katie and I took off out of town, in early November, we headed straight for Upper Rogue Organics. Upper Rogue is a small 10...
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The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up With 2011 coming to an end, so does the Year of Idaho Food (check out the projects accomplishments this Wednesday in the Boise Weekly.) As a result, Northwest Food News, web host for the Year of Idaho Food, will be making some adjustments. Some Things Will Change My...
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Farmer Marty always says that winter is the best time for gardening. Everything is perfect in your head, the possibilities are endless, and there’s not a bug or a weed to be found. So, let’s get thinking about the gorgeous home garden you are going to have next year. The most important thing that...
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On Saturday, the last farmers’ market of the 2011 season was held in downtown Boise, wrapping up the largest farmers’ market season ever held in Idaho—measured by the sheer number of markets opened this year around the state. Here’s a glimpse at the final days of the Capital City Public Market.
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I never used to save seeds from my gardens. For years, I dutifully pulled the bolted plants, wiping the slate clean for the next season. I’d pour over seed catalogues, snuggled up against my heater with a steaming mug of tea, and make my selections. Plucking varieties trucked from here and there across the...
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CLAY SCOTT: You’re listening to Mountain West Voices. I’m Clay Scott. Margaret Corcoran got one degree in Latin, then got another in philosophy, classics and religious studies…but her entire professional life has had to do with food. KITCHEN SOUNDS, PEOPLE TALKING SCOTT: That’s the sound of the lunch rush at Margaret’s restaurant, Benny’s Bistro,...
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Barbecue is best served roadside–a hot mess of meat marinated in exhaust and sizzling hot from the sun-baked asphalt below. It’s as much cult as it is culinary. With the rich aroma that wafts from its half-barrel barbecue, Bob’s Texas Barbecue, a wooden trailer covered with cattle brands that resides in a gravel parking lot...
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