We may be turning our attention toward football, fall foliage and the coming ski season, but autumn is also a great time to focus on the garden. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to garden teacher Clay Erskine about fruit trees — and why fall...
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After three visits to the month-old Matador, I still can’t tell if this popular new restaurant on 8th Street in Downtown Boise aspires to be a stylish, nouveau-Mexican innovator or merely a chain with pretenses (the Matador has half a dozen locations around Seattle and Portland). Boise’s Matador seems to be both. Sometimes on...
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Farmers’ markets are best known for fresh, seasonal produce. But they can also offer “value-added” products like pies, sausage and cheese. In today’s installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to a vendor cooking up an Idaho version of that most famous of New Orleanian pastries: the beignet....
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One of the greatest strength of a farmers’ market is its diversity of produce. But that diversity can be daunting. When faced with a bewildering array of tomatoes, for instance, how do you make a choice? Well, the Capital City Public Market in Boise is offering a free tomato tasting at tomorrow’s...
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I can’t get past these tomatoes. It’s late August. High-season for tomatoes. And even though this hasn’t been a totally stellar summer for local tomatoes, there are still enough fat specimens hanging in gardens and piled high at area farmers’ markets to give me pause. These pale shadows of summer at 13th Street Pub...
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For all those gardeners who’ve been weeding, watering and working away in the summer sun, it’s pay-off time: harvest season. But what do you do with all that bounty? In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms about the fundamental...
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Farmers’ markets are not only gathering places that offer fresh, local food. They’re also testing grounds for new and unusual products. Customers give direct, often instant feedback to farmers, which helps farmers decide what to grow next. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand finds out how...
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