Quick takes and interesting links to food and agriculture in the Northwest
On Saturday, Boise’s Capital City Public Market opened to t-shirt weather and farmers with piles of produce, thanks to a mild spring. Along with the opening of the Eagle Saturday Market the same day, it was prelude to fifty-some farmers markets planning to open across Idaho this season. Last year, when I interviewed Laura Johnson,...
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(Editor’s Note: Craig Goodwin manages the Millwood Farmers’ Market, is a Master Food Preserver and Pastor at Millwood Presbyterian Church in Spokane. His Year of Plenty blog has been an excellent mix of gardening, local food and spirituality since the winter of 2008. That was when Goodwin decided “to chronicle his family’s year of consuming everything local, used, homegrown or...
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(Editor’s Note: Craig Goodwin manages the Millwood Farmers’ Market, is a Master Food Preserver and Pastor at Millwood Presbyterian Church in Spokane. His Year of Plenty blog has been an excellent mix of gardening, local food and the spirituality he finds in food and gardening since the winter of 2008. That was when Goodwin decided, as he writes,...
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Erin Guerricabeitia, executive director of Boise Urban Garden School, also known as “BUGS”, speaks to us about the Urban Garden School and why it’snot just for kids anymore. BUGS, with guidance from garden coordinator Mike Wallace, is hard at work on a plan to propagate community gardens throughout Treasure Valley. The Adult Education Series on...
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Beyond Idaho, we may be famous for that one ubiquitous tuber, but we’re less renowned for our restaurant scene. So, when Providence Cicero, the chair of the James Beard Foundation‘s award committee, emailed me in June 2011, asking if I’d represent Idaho on the panel that nominates chefs and restaurants for the influential James Beard...
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(Editor’s note: Boisean Kim Metez recently began producing a food show called “Chew on This” on Radio Boise, the Treasure Valley’s ambitious new community radio station. As Kim describes the weekly interview program, “Chew on This” is all about “food, farms and holistic health.” She has graciously agreed to let Northwest Food News post her...
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I’m visiting friends and attended a food conference here in my once hometown of Santa Barbara, Ca. I went to school here and spent the ’90s here — and couldn’t resist posting a few shots from my then favorite Saturday farmers’ market. It was quietly raining at the time, but didn’t stop a good...
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