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A Northwest Winery Says No To Wine Critics
(GH: Anna King of The Northwest News Network reports on a battle between wine makers and wine critics on Northwest Public Radio.) Posted: Friday, March 5, 2010 RICHLAND, WA – Some big names in the Northwest wine industry have been quarrelling publicly — online. Gut punches on Facebook have led to rebuttals on blogs and plenty... »
Animal Welfare on the Farm
The ethical treatment of farm animals is a growing concern for many Americans. And that puts states with relatively few animal cruelty laws, like Idaho, in the cross-hairs of animal welfare groups. It also makes those states attractive to livestock operations looking to relocate to less regulated areas. In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent... »
Boss Bob Gives Company to Employees
Now here’s one you won’t read every day: This week Bob Moore, owner of the internationally known Bob’s Red Mill Natural Food store based in Milwaukie, Oregon gave the whole business to his 209 employees at his 81st birthday party. Red Mill produces and sells more than 400 whole-grain flours, cereals and bread mixes. The... »
Cow Power To Horsepower, making mileage on manure
(GH: Tom Banse of The Northwest News Network reports on converting cow manure to electricity on Northwest Public Radio) BELLINGHAM, WA – When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high-speed trains. Now here’s one of the... »
Food, Up Close and Personal
OK, here’s a story a little far afield from the Northwest, but a Brooklyn, NY high school perfectly illustrates an issue Edible Idaho explored on Monday: the strong desire people have to get close to the source of their food. As the New York Times reports: These curious students, all juniors and seniors at Automotive High... »
New Funds Save Parma Research Center, For Now
Yesterday, Capital Press reported contributions from several groups will allow specialty crop research to continue at the University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center. Last September Edible Idaho aired a story on Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, a fruit researcher for the Parma Center who has done innovative work to bring new fruit crops to the Northwest and... »
Butchery Classes For Conscientious Carnivores
More and more people are getting directly involved in food. Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it. Some are going still further: plunging — literally — into the meat of the matter. In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the desire... »
Farmers vs Agro-Industrialist, not Ag. Critics
On January 11th, I reported on the drawing-a-line-in-the-sand speech by American Farm Bureau Federation president, Bob Stallman. In his speech, Stallman said farmers and ranchers of all types should “aggressively” defend themselves against “self-appointed and self-promoting food experts” who he said “seek to damage the reputation of traditional agricultural values.” The speech was an... »
Cutting CAFO Regulations in Idaho Counties
The dairy industry in Idaho has seen explosive growth over the last decade or so. According to United Dairymen of Idaho, the state is now the 2nd largest milk producer in the West and the 3rd largest cheese maker in America. That output comes, in large part, from confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that... »
Newer Spuds Promise Less Pesticides & Fertilizer
Potatoes are notorious users of pesticides and fertilizers. Back in 2007, I produced an Edible Idaho radio story on how potato production had tainted wells on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Eastern Idaho. That lead the Shoshone Bannock tribes on a search for healthier ways to grow potatoes. An article in the Capital... »
