Comments for Northwest Food News http://www.nwfoodnews.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:41:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Market & Garden Report: Battling Bugs by Guy Hand http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/30/market-garden-report-battling-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-2247 Guy Hand Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:41:32 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3235#comment-2247 I've been following Peaceful Belly Farms' season-long organic gardening class in the Market & Garden Report. You could contact them. Here's a link: http://www.peacefulbelly.com/garden-class/. I’ve been following Peaceful Belly Farms’ season-long organic gardening class in the Market & Garden Report. You could contact them. Here’s a link: http://www.peacefulbelly.com/garden-class/.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Fall Plantings by Guy Hand http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/08/27/market-garden-report-fall-plantings/comment-page-1/#comment-2246 Guy Hand Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:38:07 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3344#comment-2246 Overhead watering and enough of it is the key to keeping those tender new plants going in the last few weeks of hot weather. Once cool weather comes, cool season plants should flourish. Overhead watering and enough of it is the key to keeping those tender new plants going in the last few weeks of hot weather. Once cool weather comes, cool season plants should flourish.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Fall Plantings by Sue http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/08/27/market-garden-report-fall-plantings/comment-page-1/#comment-2232 Sue Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:33:14 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3344#comment-2232 Great article. I was wondering how to keep the newbies cool enough to get through August and early September heat. Thanks for the overhead water idea. Have also found that Straw Bales make a good Cold Frame, with an old window on the top. Have to slant it for the snows, but we don't get that much snow of late. Great article. I was wondering how to keep the newbies cool enough to get through August and early September heat. Thanks for the overhead water idea. Have also found that Straw Bales make a good Cold Frame, with an old window on the top. Have to slant it for the snows, but we don’t get that much snow of late.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Battling Bugs by debi marts http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/30/market-garden-report-battling-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-2230 debi marts Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:01:30 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3235#comment-2230 How do I get involved with organic gardening classes? I started my own raised organic garden this year and it seems to be doing fairly well, but I would love to learn a lot more so I can be much more effective. Thanks. How do I get involved with organic gardening classes? I started my own raised organic garden this year and it seems to be doing fairly well, but I would love to learn a lot more so I can be much more effective. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Food & Faith by Scott http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/08/02/food-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-2194 Scott Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:26:32 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3248#comment-2194 My wife & I drove up to this festival from Boise after reading reviews like this. This is hard to say since it involves a very good organization, but this is the worse festival we've ever been to. You can tell it's probably not going to be good when the only raspberry products available at the festival are imported. I would no recommend going out of your way to go to this festival. My wife & I drove up to this festival from Boise after reading reviews like this. This is hard to say since it involves a very good organization, but this is the worse festival we’ve ever been to. You can tell it’s probably not going to be good when the only raspberry products available at the festival are imported. I would no recommend going out of your way to go to this festival.

]]> Comment on Glowing Seafood in Oregon? by Patricia http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/08/11/glowing-seafood-in-oregon/comment-page-1/#comment-2186 Patricia Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:12:50 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3293#comment-2186 How fascinating.. We are currently so far from the coast that we may never experience this phenomenon. I will share this. How fascinating.. We are currently so far from the coast that we may never experience this phenomenon. I will share this.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Raw Milk by Raine http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/23/market-garden-report-raw-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-2065 Raine Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:15:41 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3210#comment-2065 I am very glad to see a local dietitian in support of the raw milk movement here in Idaho. Ask most dietitians about what's healthy to consume and you'll receive the following answer: low-fat diets replete with a lot of grains and vegetables and fruits, many processed foods and unhealthy polyunsaturated fats like vegetable oils. Most of them definitely don't agree that whole, raw milk from cows on pasture carries health benefits. In fact, the standard recommendation is to avoid saturated fats because they cause heart disease - which couldn't be further from the truth. If it were true, why is that recommendation so widespread and our health epidemics in obesity, heart disease, stroke, cancer, auto-immune disorders and other problems such a scourge in modern life? Our family has been drinking milk from Saint John's Organic Farm for over a year, and eating their meat. The farm owners are good friends of ours, and I will continue to support their efforts as long as they sell wholesome milk and meat. TM is absolutely right, the nutritional profile of organically-produced whole, raw milk from cows on pasture is completely different than that of milk from cattle on feedlots on dirt in crowded, filthy conditions who are given toxic chemicals and the wrong kinds of feed. I'm also very grateful to have this amazing resource so close to home (in Boise) and available legally through the state certification process. I am very glad to see a local dietitian in support of the raw milk movement here in Idaho. Ask most dietitians about what’s healthy to consume and you’ll receive the following answer: low-fat diets replete with a lot of grains and vegetables and fruits, many processed foods and unhealthy polyunsaturated fats like vegetable oils. Most of them definitely don’t agree that whole, raw milk from cows on pasture carries health benefits. In fact, the standard recommendation is to avoid saturated fats because they cause heart disease – which couldn’t be further from the truth. If it were true, why is that recommendation so widespread and our health epidemics in obesity, heart disease, stroke, cancer, auto-immune disorders and other problems such a scourge in modern life?

Our family has been drinking milk from Saint John’s Organic Farm for over a year, and eating their meat. The farm owners are good friends of ours, and I will continue to support their efforts as long as they sell wholesome milk and meat. TM is absolutely right, the nutritional profile of organically-produced whole, raw milk from cows on pasture is completely different than that of milk from cattle on feedlots on dirt in crowded, filthy conditions who are given toxic chemicals and the wrong kinds of feed. I’m also very grateful to have this amazing resource so close to home (in Boise) and available legally through the state certification process.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Raw Milk by TM http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/23/market-garden-report-raw-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-2051 TM Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:59:29 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3210#comment-2051 Sometimes I think people are so out of touch with anything that is not commercially produced, that the images of cows in feedlots, knee-high, so to speak, in their manure, creates a fear about raw milk, because it would be untenable to get it from such a producer. Yet, if anyone visited a farm that produces it in an organic and sustainable way, they would have to wonder why they would buy it any other way. Shiny coated, relaxed animals feeding on lush pastures. Such a farm is St John's Organic Farm in Emmett, also certified for raw milk sales; with the added benefit of raising and feeding them organically. As a dietitian, the biological/nutrient profile of raw milk is drastically different and very beneficial compared to commercially raised, grain fed milk. Many with lactose intolerance can digest raw milk products due to the innate digestive components in raw milk. It has the good bacteria that actually protect and heal the gut. The omega 3:6 ratio is what nature intended when cows/steers eat what their bodies were made to, pasture, not grains. I'm so thankful Boise has such a resource so close to home and that it is not outlawed in our state. I'd be afraid to consume milk that was not both organic and raw. Sometimes I think people are so out of touch with anything that is not commercially produced, that the images of cows in feedlots, knee-high, so to speak, in their manure, creates a fear about raw milk, because it would be untenable to get it from such a producer. Yet, if anyone visited a farm that produces it in an organic and sustainable way, they would have to wonder why they would buy it any other way. Shiny coated, relaxed animals feeding on lush pastures. Such a farm is St John’s Organic Farm in Emmett, also certified for raw milk sales; with the added benefit of raising and feeding them organically. As a dietitian, the biological/nutrient profile of raw milk is drastically different and very beneficial compared to commercially raised, grain fed milk. Many with lactose intolerance can digest raw milk products due to the innate digestive components in raw milk. It has the good bacteria that actually protect and heal the gut. The omega 3:6 ratio is what nature intended when cows/steers eat what their bodies were made to, pasture, not grains. I’m so thankful Boise has such a resource so close to home and that it is not outlawed in our state. I’d be afraid to consume milk that was not both organic and raw.

]]> Comment on Market & Garden Report: Raw Milk by Raine http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/23/market-garden-report-raw-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 Raine Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:27:46 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3210#comment-2046 I am a local writer in Boise, Idaho, and I manage my web site, Agriculture Society, dedicated to all things sustainable and focusing on whole foods and nutrition through traditional foods like raw milk. In my two posts, The Truth About Raw Milk, Parts I and II, there is a link to Mark McAfee's farm, Organic Pastures in Fresno, CA, and also a very interesting interview he did where he talks about how pasteurized milk never goes through any testing at all, it is simply pasteurized. And harmful bacteria, which are always found in commercial milk from factory farms are sometimes not killed by the heating process. The only temperatures that can kill some bacteria are the UHT (ultra high temperature pasteurization), and then all you have when you are finished pasteurizing is dead bacteria. On the other end of the spectrum you have clean, whole, raw milk from a healthy source. This milk must be tested, every time it is produced and sold, in order to be able to be sold. Why is it that pasteurized milk gets a pass while many people are skeptical of clean, wholesome raw milk? It's because powerful lobbyists working for the dairy industry and big corporations have a lot of power and money to continue what they do. So, supporting smaller, sustainable family farms is the way to ensure you get good quality food and allow the farmers to continue bringing that food to you. The choice is yours. I am a local writer in Boise, Idaho, and I manage my web site, Agriculture Society, dedicated to all things sustainable and focusing on whole foods and nutrition through traditional foods like raw milk. In my two posts, The Truth About Raw Milk, Parts I and II, there is a link to Mark McAfee’s farm, Organic Pastures in Fresno, CA, and also a very interesting interview he did where he talks about how pasteurized milk never goes through any testing at all, it is simply pasteurized. And harmful bacteria, which are always found in commercial milk from factory farms are sometimes not killed by the heating process. The only temperatures that can kill some bacteria are the UHT (ultra high temperature pasteurization), and then all you have when you are finished pasteurizing is dead bacteria. On the other end of the spectrum you have clean, whole, raw milk from a healthy source. This milk must be tested, every time it is produced and sold, in order to be able to be sold. Why is it that pasteurized milk gets a pass while many people are skeptical of clean, wholesome raw milk? It’s because powerful lobbyists working for the dairy industry and big corporations have a lot of power and money to continue what they do. So, supporting smaller, sustainable family farms is the way to ensure you get good quality food and allow the farmers to continue bringing that food to you. The choice is yours.

]]> Comment on The Treasure Valley Taco Truck Tour by Cindy Salo http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/05/20/the-treasure-valley-taco-truck-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-2036 Cindy Salo Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:52:35 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=2804#comment-2036 Three tacos pastor at Taco Veloz: $3.00 Table conversation when you, the only woman, pull up a chair: None Reliving a previous life working in Mexico: Priceless Three tacos pastor at Taco Veloz: $3.00
Table conversation when you, the only woman, pull up a chair: None
Reliving a previous life working in Mexico: Priceless

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