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		<title>A Visit to Upper Rogue Organics</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/09/a-visit-to-upper-rogue-organics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Camberlango and Katie Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every great once and a while, a farmer gets off the farm. About as far off the farm as I dare get is onto to someone else’s farm. So when Katie and I took off out of town, in early November, we headed straight for Upper Rogue Organics. Upper Rogue is a small 10 acre fruit and vegetable farm in Prospect, Oregon. The Navickas brothers, Eric and Ryan, have been market gardening for almost 20 years now. I met these two in 2002 at the Ashland, Oregon Farmer’s Market. Instantly we became friends, and over the years they have become my most admired mentors. I wanted to introduce Katie to the Eco Vikings and show her where I learned I wanted to be a farmer. Eric and Ryan had grown up gardening and when Ashland decided to host a farmers’ market to the young Ryan Navickas it seemed a no-brainer. Grow veggies on an old empty lot and sell them at the market. Soon Ryan had recruited his older brother Eric and their farming careers began. This is around 1995, before Omnivore’s Dilemma, before… It became clear very early these guys had a talent for growing veggies and their family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food isn’t the end of Idaho Food</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/06/the-year-of-idaho-food-isn%e2%80%99t-the-end-of-idaho-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago, Amy Hutchinson and I helped create a campaign called 2011: The Year of Idaho.  This grassroots effort received a broad reach across Idaho, and even throughout the Pacific Northwest through the work of many individuals and particularly through the media work of Guy Hand.  His Northwest Food News has chronicled the past year with colorful, weekly print articles in the Boise Weekly and radio segments on Boise State Public Radio.  Sadly, the weekly radio spots will be discontinued. These weekly stories about Idaho food helped to enlighten us about the surprising variety of food grown in the state.  They introduced us to the people who are quietly rejecting cookie-cutter industrial food and expanding our notions about what we can grow in our backyards, neighborhoods, and farms.  They brought us passion and joy about food.   Most importantly, these weekly profiles gave us hope—hope that in a world of uncertainty we have the ability to feed ourselves, and feed ourselves well. Just because the Year of Idaho Food has come to an end doesn’t mean that we should stop the festivities.   There are more stories to tell.  Please consider writing one for Northwest Food News.  And if Guy’s weekly radio shows were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/04/the-year-of-idaho-food-wraps-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Janie Burns and Amy Hutchinson hadn’t organized the project called “2011: The Year of Idaho Food,” I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to spend the last 12 months sipping gin at 8:30 in the morning (well, once), foraging for stinging nettles in the forests of McCall, riding in a big-ass wheat combine on the Palouse, sampling more fermented foods than I thought humanly possible (or medically prudent), eating goat five ways, jet boating down the Salmon in search of pioneer apples and sifting through the sands of the Snake River for a lunch of fresh-water mussels (not recommended). And that’s just for starters. Still, my weekly collaboration with the Boise Weekly and Boise State Public Radio to write food and farming stories under the Year of Idaho Food banner was just one feature of the project’s broader agenda. “The Year of Idaho Food was envisioned as a means of engaging the public to think about their food,” local food advocate Janie Burns said of the statewide project she and Hutchinson dreamt up in March of 2010 while “Amy and I were trapped in a car for six hours, traveling back from Moscow where we’d both been at a food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With the New Year, Comes Change</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/01/with-the-new-year-comes-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up With 2011 coming to an end, so does the Year of Idaho Food (check out the projects accomplishments this Wednesday in the Boise Weekly.) As a result, Northwest Food News, web host for the Year of Idaho Food, will be making some adjustments. Some Things Will Change My contributions to Northwest Food News will be less frequent (at least initially) due to Boise State Radio&#8217;s decision to drop the frequency of my radio show “Edible Idaho” from weekly to monthly beginning with the New Year (if you have an opinion about that, contact the station). And since my contributions to the Boise Weekly were tied to those weekly radio programs, my print stories and their resulting website counterparts on Northwest Food News will also appear less frequently—at least for the time being. But Some Things Won’t Change Despite the initial drop in frequency of my contributions, many of the Year of Idaho Food’s best features—a web forum encouraging people from all over the state to contribute food and farming stories to Northwest Food News, the project’s food-centric events calendar, its Facebook and Twitter pages—have value that clearly transcend the Year of Idaho Food’s finite, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Ducks, Diversity and Dollars: The future of local food</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/23/balancing-ducks-diversity-and-dollars-the-future-of-local-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the pre-dawn December darkness, Mary Rohlfing nodded toward a familiar silhouette perched in a tree on the edge of her Boise farm. As if on cue, a great horned owl let loose a burst of hoots as Rohlfing pulled on gloves, preparing for her morning chores. &#8220;Now that it&#8217;s getting a little bit lighter, you can see the bib on her neck area there. She&#8217;s kind of the mother owl,&#8221; Rohlfing said, her words condensing into translucent clouds. &#8220;And you named the farm for her?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Yeah, we did name the farm for her because, in the morning, I&#8217;d come out and hear the owls, just like we are this morning, so we named the farm Morning Owl Farm.&#8221; That was 10 years ago, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Rohlfing, a tenured professor at Boise State at the time, decided to make a radical career change. &#8220;I was in my garden on about the 30th of September in 2001 and just realized I was at home and where I wanted to be,&#8221; she said. Rohlfing wasn&#8217;t thinking only of changes she needed to make to her life, but of changes she felt the whole nation needed to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIMFY (Not in My Front Yard) Gardening</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/21/nimfy-not-in-my-front-yard-gardening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmer Marty always says that winter is the best time for gardening.  Everything is perfect in your head, the possibilities are endless, and there’s not a bug or a weed to be found.  So, let’s get thinking about the gorgeous home garden you are going to have next year.  The most important thing that your garden will need is FULL SUN.  No, really.  If there’s a tree above your garden, you will need to cut it down.  Or….find a sunnier spot, even if it’s in (GASP!) your FRONT yard. My mama is a great gardener.  I learned my first gardening skills from her, in the large backyard of the house I grew up in.  After tending that lovely garden for many years, she and my dad moved to a different house with a much smaller yard, and my mom put in a much smaller backyard garden.  But alas, nearby trees and a shed thwarted her efforts, and for several years, she had a very mediocre garden, due to her NIMFY attitude.  Finally, about two years ago, I was home in Maryland for a visit and decided to spearhead a new and improved garden for my mom, not exactly in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holiday Farmers&#8217; Market</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/19/the-holiday-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the last farmers&#8217; market of the 2011 season was held in downtown Boise, wrapping up the largest farmers&#8217; market season ever held in Idaho—measured by the sheer number of markets opened this year around the state. Here&#8217;s a glimpse at the final days of the Capital City Public Market.]]></description>
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		<title>Chestnuts Return to America</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/16/chestnuts-return-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think we got a rainstorm coming in,&#8221; Peggy Paul said, pointing to the ominous band of clouds rolling our way on a blustery, mid-November day. She led me into the shelter of her nearby orchard as icy rain began to tick against the dry leaves and bristled burrs that clung to some 500 chestnut trees. As my eyes adjusted to the light under that nearly closed canopy, I whispered the word &#8220;beautiful.&#8221; Those trees both protected us from the rain and reminded me&#8211;with hundreds of trunks giving way to a tangle of interlocking branches&#8211;of an enchanted forest far more than a commercial orchard. Enchanted or not, a chestnut forest is a rare sight. That&#8217;s because, as a recent New York Times article put it, the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) &#8220;had a worse 20th century than the British Empire, the ice-delivery trade or rhyming poetry.&#8221; Once a stately member of the Eastern hardwood forest ecosystem, up to 4 billion American chestnut trees fell victim to a blight during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually scouring the species from its native habitat. That&#8217;s why the majority of Americans today experience the chestnut via imported and frequently inferior Chinese chestnuts, or vicariously through that 1946 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seedy Confessions: Birthing a seed freak</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/14/seedy-confessions-birthing-a-seed-freak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never used to save seeds from my gardens. For years, I dutifully pulled the bolted plants, wiping the slate clean for the next season. I’d pour over seed catalogues, snuggled up against my heater with a steaming mug of tea, and make my selections. Plucking varieties trucked from here and there across the country, a smorgasbord would arrive in a box seemingly far too tiny to hold the hundreds housed within. Then, in 2005, I visited a farm in Sooke, BC, that changed my life. Mary Alice Johnson runs ALM farm, a tiny farm much like mine, but with one major difference—instead of working against each plant’s biological predisposition to survive by setting seed, she embraced it, allowing it to flower, to have sex, to make babies in the form of seeds. Looking around her exuberant, wild farm, full of flowers and buzzing pollinators, I clearly grasped the faux pas I had been committing. I was killing my beloved vegetables before they got a chance to reproduce and die on their own. That’s an fitting fate for a weed, not a prized garden treasure. Further, I was spending hundreds of dollars each year to let some other farm like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quince: A Path to the Past</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/09/quince-time-travel-and-membrillo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to invoke the famous Marcel Proust time-travel tale one more time, since uncountable references to that story have ricocheted across food literature like pepper-spraying cops across the Internet. But for those whose reading habits haven&#8217;t myopically focused on food and culture, I&#8217;ll briefly recap: In the novel Remembrance of Things Past by French writer Proust, the narrator had an absentminded taste of &#8220;one of those squat, plump little cakes called &#8216;petites madeleines,&#8217; which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell,&#8221; which teleported him back to his long-forgotten childhood. Proust explores this food-induced teleportation for nearly 1.5 million words, examining what he called the &#8220;involuntary memories&#8221; invoked by something as seemingly innocuous as a scalloped cookie. Boisean Dave Turner knows all about taste and memory, if not Marcel Proust and his madeleines. The catalyst that shot Turner into his past was quince, a fragrant apple-like fruit. &#8220;Somewhere when I was between 6 and 10, my grandmother used to make this quince jelly,&#8221; the 60-year-old Turner said as he opened a gate and walked me into his suburban back yard. &#8220;I never knew what a quince was, all I knew was it [...]]]></description>
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