From Boise State Public Radio: A season at Boise’s Capital City Public Market and tips on gardening from Peaceful Belly Farms.
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...
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It’s mid-November, the temperature is in the high 30′s, but Boise’s Capital City Public Market is still open and full of a surprising array of foods. I take a walk with market manager Karen Ellis as she talks about what’s available from now until the Market’s seasonal closing on December 19th. Here’s an audio...
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It’s a blustery late October Saturday at Boise’s Capital City Public Market. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of local food still available. I talk to Lee Rice of Rice Family Farms in Meridian and restauranteur Dave Krick of Red Feather and Bittercreek Ale House about foods in the fall. Scroll down...
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It’s late September at the Capital City Public Market in Boise and Kurtis Williams of Waterwheel Gardens in Emmett says the vegetable season is beginning to wane. But, he adds, his late season fruits and berries are coming on strong. He’s got Flavor Top nectarines, Fortune plums, Dapple Dandy plumcots, pears, two kinds of...
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Peaceful Belly Farms owner Josie and Clay Erskine put on their first Tomato Fest, a tasting of 20-some different varieties of tomatoes, at Boise’s Capital City Farmers’ Market on Saturday, September 12th. Josie Erskine said that people go to the farmers’ market, in part, to get food they can’t find at a supermarket. “But...
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Janie Burns of Meadowlark Farms in Nampa is bringing boudin to Boise. If you don’t already know, boudin is a much loved, meat and rice sausage you’ll find all over Louisiana’s Cajun country. Janie has been working on the recipe with sausage maker Lin Hintze of Big Lost River Meats in Mackay, Idaho and...
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It’s harvest season and that means a flurry of farm to fork dinners in the Treasure Valley. Dinners showcasing local food are all the rage nationwide and whether you call them farm to fork, farm to table, or just food served outside, usually on or close to the farm that provided them, these...
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