A Visit to Upper Rogue Organics
The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up
With the New Year, Comes Change
Balancing Ducks, Diversity and Dollars: The future of local...
Every great once and a while, a farmer gets off the farm. About as...
If Janie Burns and Amy Hutchinson hadn’t organized the project called “2011: The Year...
The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up With 2011 coming to an end, so...
In the pre-dawn December darkness, Mary Rohlfing nodded toward a familiar silhouette perched in...
The Florida legislation Craig Goodwin discusses here—which would make the unauthorized filming or photographing of a farm illegal—has similarities to an Idaho bill designed to protect farming operations from lawsuits and local ordinances. Both suggest that certain segments of the agricultural community are attempting to insulate themselves from public scrutiny at a time when the...
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On stage at the Basque Center in Boise, farmer Casey O’Leary cuts through the air with an imaginary blade as she sings out a self-penned, seed-centric poem. “Slicing self-consciously, subconsciously stabbing the dense, orange sponge top of my Halloween prop, I’m pondering the wisdom in the combining of red wine and knife.” The 31-year-old O’Leary...
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Right behind the Karcher Mall in Nampa, Idaho you would never guess that there is a family growing up to 1,000 tomato plants—many of them will have ripe tomato by the 4th of July. Jim and Elaine Jenkins, found an acre of land with a small house on it and decided to call it...
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I like to think that I have made peace with my food. When I have a choice, I try to eat from our farm and garden first, then from my friends and neighbors, then from Idaho or the northwest, and then, reluctantly, from who knows where. This has worked pretty well until I encountered...
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Travelers whizzing past Southern Idaho’s sagebrush desert on I-84 are likely thinking about anything but caviar. Rattlesnakes, lava rocks and the next restroom, sure. But not glistening black beads of high-end sturgeon roe. And yet, just to the south of the highway, often hidden below the rim of the Snake River Canyon, flows its...
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I sat beside a man from Hollywood, California on a plane He said he had rich and famous friends, he liked droppin’ names I said ‘Howdy do, that’s good for you, I dig a lot of those actors, But son you ain’t got a thing on me, see I got friends with tractors’ –From...
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Because of their lack of parking or infrastructure requirements, food carts are perfect for urban areas. It’s strange, then, that some of Boise’s...
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Chef Shige Matsuzawa has dominated the downtown Boise sushi scene for years. And despite a questionable expansion into French-infused red carpet fine dining...
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In the last decade, Hawaiian restaurants have become as numerous in the valley as Speedo-clad Japanese tourists at Waikiki Beach. I’ve been firmly...
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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...
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When you crave a dash of gastropub class with your dinner, Overland Road in Meridian isn’t often your first stop. But the R&R...
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