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		<title>The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/02/the-raw-milk-deal-idaho-legitimizes-small-scale-raw-milk-producers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Aug. 3, federal and county law enforcement agents raided a Venice, Calif., raw-food club, searching for raw milk. The YouTube video of the raid showed officers, with guns drawn, working their way through the facility in what critics called &#8220;government-sponsored terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;an attack on food freedom.&#8221; Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several years, law enforcement agencies have carried out raw-milk raids in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. Each raid increases the tension that already surrounds the debate over raw milk. Idaho, by contrast, has taken a very different raw-milk route. &#8220;Raw milk comes straight from the cow or goat. We don&#8217;t do anything to it except filter it and flash cool it and bottle it,&#8221; said Debra Jantzi, owner of Treasured Sunrise Acres, a Grade A raw-milk dairy in Fruitland. Pasteurization, on the other hand, is a heating process that kills bacteria and other pathogens and has been a standard practice in the U.S. dairy industry since the mid-20th century. Many state and federal health agencies claim that raw milk is dangerous to drink&#8211;citing a 2010 outbreak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Farm vs. the Public&#8217;s Right to Know</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county&#8217;s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and Hasse wanted a look at them. She and her agricultural watchdog group, Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment believed that Idaho&#8217;s factory farms weren&#8217;t being adequately monitored or regulated. That&#8217;s why she and a small group of her members burst into the county offices on that dreary December afternoon, requesting to see the CAFO records. But it soon became clear the group wouldn&#8217;t get what it wanted. The office staff, caught off guard and obviously not prepared to respond to that rare and forceful request for files, complied hesitantly, but within minutes Jerome County Commissioner Charlie Howell and County Planner Nancy Marshall arrived and asked the group to give the records back. Faces reddened, voices rose and soon a Jerome County cop arrived, looking as confused as everyone else. Marshall said the county simply didn&#8217;t have an employee available to sit with the group as they pored over files. Hasse&#8217;s daughter, Shavan, demanded that Marshall cite the county code allowing her to withhold the requested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get all Dickensian when looking at what’s happening across the agriculture landscape. As the spring growing season begins, there are plenty of examples sprouting that suggest that, in terms of food and farming, we are indeed living in the best of times and, if not the worst of times, some pretty disconcerting ones. First the the best of times. This coming weekend some of Idaho’s 55-and-counting farmers’ markets will set up their stands for the season. Here in the Treasure Valley, the Capital City Public Market in Boise and the Eagle Saturday Market in Eagle will both open on Saturday, April 16th. As I’ll report in the April 20th Boise Weekly and the following Friday’s Edible Idaho radio program on KBSX 91.5, Idaho’s farmers’ markets have more than doubled in number in the last five years. And they’ve added all kinds of new, user friendly features like EBT, social networking, interactive online maps, cooking classes and countless other embellishments to make shopping for fresh, local food easier and more fun. The best single feature of the farmers’ market system, though, is also its oldest: Transparency. That one-on-one, face-to-face contact between grower and eater instantly shortens our often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Water Footprint on Your Plate</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Arkle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent rains and sunny weather have got me thinking about spring, planting vegetable gardens — and the water footprint of food production. This time of year, as farmer&#8217;s markets open up after a winter hiatus and Idaho starts to offer fruits and vegetable again, I’m reminded that producing food in much of Idaho requires one scarce thing — water. Whether from my vegetable garden or the grocery store, the food we purchase and enjoy has a water footprint. Depending on what food is grown and the size of the farming operation, the footprint can be a large one or a small one. It’s a question of scale. Agriculture and food production is obviously a major piece of Idaho’s heritage and current economy. We raise beef, produce enough milk to rank 3rd in the nation, grow alfalfa, potatoes, onions, sugar beets, hops, and much, much more. Both water consumption and quality are part of the total water footprint of food production. Whether diverted from rivers through irrigation canals to a farm or pumped up from underground, it’s surprising how much water is needed to irrigate Idaho’s crops. Worldwide, agriculture accounts for 70% of water use. In Idaho, where agriculture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KBOO Community Radio’s Food Show: Dairy</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/21/kboo-community-radios-food-show-dairy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura McCandlish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is KBOO community radio&#8217;s monthly Food Show. This installment focuses on dairy. This month is devoted to dairy. Listen to dairy breakfast suggestions from Paul Gerald, author of Breakfast in Bridgetownhttp://www.breakfastinbridgetown.com and hear an interview by Host Miriam Widman with Reyna Simnegar, author of Persian Food for the Non-Persian Bride about kosher dairy Persian foods and specialties for Purimhttp://www.kosherpersianfood.com/ There&#8217;s also a segment from householder Harriet Fasenfest about spring milk and a discussion about raw milk. Host Laura McCandlish hears the dairy industry&#8217;s pushback against raw milk from Friends of Family Farmers President Kendra Kimbirauskas. Then Laura takes us inside the new cheese-making lab Oregon State University in Corvallis. The lab will market a new OSU cheese to the public this fall. And Food Show Friend Marliese Franklin speaks with Gabriele Hamilton, author of Blood Bones and Butter &#8211; theInadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. There&#8217;s also a legislative update from Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, about funding for a bill to support school districts&#8217; purchases of local farm products. Other Useful Links: Info on FDA position on raw milk:  http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm232980.htm State Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem: http://www.leg.state.or.us/clem/ Oregon&#8217;s 100th Dairy Conference in April: http://www.oregondairy.org/conference.php]]></description>
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		<title>Artisan Cheesemakers &amp; The FDA Tangle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTESANO, Wash. – Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents like last August’s nation-wide egg recall. President Obama signed a new food safety law this month expanding the F.D.A.’s authority. But two Northwest cheesemakers have been especially hard hit by new requirements. Bryan Buckalew reports. Last year, Washington State inspectors found listeria at the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano, Washington.  It’s a bacteria that causes flu-like symptoms that’s especially dangerous for pregnant women.  Owner Kelli Estrella says she cleaned up the listeria, but last September the FDA checked again.  After one swab came back positive, inspectors asked Estrella to order a broad recall.  She said no. Estrella argued most of her cheese wasn’t contaminated at all.  But a federal judge sent marshals to impound the cheese anyway. Kelli Estrella: “At this point, our attorney is hoping we can come to an agreement out of court. To be honest, I’ve very concerned that we are still too far away from coming to an agreement and will we be able to hold up and not go bankrupt by the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This was formerly the Smith&#8217;s Dairy,&#8221; says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl&#8217;s town square. &#8220;The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.&#8221; This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a new, national agricultural movement. But they are. Stoltzfus, a lifelong dairyman, moved to Idaho in 1992 from Pennsylvania&#8217;s once pastoral dairy country. He still carries a hint of the rural East in his voice and a lasting love of the small dairy farms that dot his home state. &#8220;We do a non-homogenized whole milk, a 2 percent and a low-fat milk,&#8221; Stoltzfus says as he shows me around the pleasantly old-fashioned retail space that fronts his bottling plant. Behind the counter are 24 flavors of homemade ice cream. &#8220;We also are planning on trying to get into some cottage cheese and possibly some yogurt and do our own artisan cheese.&#8221; Most modern dairymen have gone a very different route than Stoltzfus. The Idaho dairy industry has grown explosively in the last decade. Fed in part by factory dairies fleeing more tightly regulated places like California, dairy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Year of Idaho Food Kick-Off Luncheon</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/15/kickoff-luncheon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the Idaho legislature passed a resolution in support of Idaho Grown Food. In response, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition dreamed up a grass-roots, year-long project called “2011: The Year of Idaho Food”—which I’ve written about recently in the Boise Weekly —and started working on ways to encourage individuals and organizations to put together their own activities acknowledging and celebrating Idaho food. To that end, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition hosted one of the first official Year of Idaho Food events on January 10 at the Cathedral of the Rockies. Called “An Idaho Lunch: Food for Thought,” the combination lunch and brainstorming session included input from restaurant owners, chefs, farmers and representatives from local and state agencies that are involved, directly or indirectly, in food production. While eating locally grown food prepared by area restaurants Locavore, Bar Gernika, Cafe Vicino, Red Feather and the Modern, participants talked over ways to strengthen Idaho’s food system. After lunch, the various groups shared their ideas. Here are a few of those fledgling ideas: Organize school field trips to local farms so children can see where their food comes from.Promote school gardens to not only provide food for school lunches but as subjects for life science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Food and Farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/11/08/local-food-and-farmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] A just released Zagat survey found that 68 percent of restaurant goers say they prefer locally grown food.  Sixty percent of those would pay more for that food.  That’s good news for the small, but increasing number of farmers and ranchers who grow products for local markets. In this month’s installment of Edible Idaho, producer Guy Hand finds out why Idaho farmers and ranchers are joining the local food movement. (Sounds at farmers’ market) Hand: Today, farmer Janie Burns is selling lamb, chicken and eggs at Boise’s farmers’ market.   She’s the first in her farming-family to become an outspoken advocate of the local food movement.  For Burns, the reasons are obvious. Burns: I think you only have to drive through rural Idaho to see the kind of hollowed out towns, the lack of wealth and you don’t have to be a genius to see that there’s just no money in rural Idaho.  Those rural economies that once depended on agriculture, their money is somewhere else. Hand: Burns says the local food movement not only offers consumers fresh food; it offers struggling farmers and ranchers a way off a poorly-paid, commodity-driven tread mill. Burns: The farmers are captive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market &amp; Garden Report: Idaho Cheeses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] America is in the midst of a cheese making renaissance.  Small-scale, artisans have set up shop in virtually every state.  The Northwest is particularly well represented.  Oregon has over 20 professional cheese making businesses — Washington twice that.   Idaho has less than six so far.  But, as correspondent Guy Hand finds out in this installment of the Market &#38; Garden Report, Idaho cheeses are well worth seeking out. Stacie Ballard: We&#8217;re Ballard Family Dairy and Cheese.  We milk our own cows and make our own cheese. Hand: That’s Stacie Ballard here at the Capital City Public Market in Boise.  She and her husband Steve are two of Idaho’s most successful cheese makers. Hand: And I just heard that you guys are the best cheese makers in the state.  Is that correct?  (laughing)  Steve: Yea.  Stacie: That&#8217;s what we think.  Steve: We&#8217;re the only farmstead cheese manufacturer in the state and our cheese has lots of flavor and good taste and we think we are the best. Hand: The term farmstead means they raise the cows and make the cheese on the farm.  It’s a lot like estate bottled wine. Hand: And you&#8217;ve won a few awards over [...]]]></description>
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