Raw milk is a controversial food. Proponents say it is healthier and more flavorful than processed, pasteurized milk. Yet many states outlaw its sale, saying raw milk is unsafe.
Idaho, however, recently changed it’s laws to allow the selling of raw milk. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy...
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This Thursday, Outdoor Idaho will air a show on Idaho’s vibrant local food scene. It’s a story that Idaho Public Television producer Thanh Tan has been working on since last summer — a subject dear to her heart. Here’s what Tan says about the show:
“I always tell people one of the pleasures of working at IdahoPTV...
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It’s berry season. Area farmers’ markets are chocked full of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. But there’s one berry at the Capital City Public Market in Boise that many of us know only through nursery rhythms. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand tries the sung-about-but-seldom-eaten mulberry.
(Mulberry Music)...
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California produces 90% of America’s strawberries. To grow that much fruit, the California strawberry industry uses highly toxic fumigants and fruit varieties that travel well, but lack taste.
On today’s Market & Garden Report, Guy Hand learns that local strawberry growers are taking a tastier, less toxic path . . . a path...
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Thanks to a rainy spring, morel mushroom are popping up all over the Northwest. That means an abundance at local farmers markets. Today on the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand is going to follow morels from the market right into the kitchen — and get advice on cooking these highly...
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Farmers’ Markets often offer produce you won’t find in supermarkets — things that are unusual, fragile or that the average person simple doesn’t know how to cook. Green garlic, for instance. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand asks an expert about those tender, young shoots called green...
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Asparagus is at it’s peak right now at area farmers’ markets. But asparagus season is short. So, in this week’s Market & Garden Report, Guy Hand finds out how to make the most of this quintessential, spring vegetable.
(Sounds of market) (Hand) Asparagus is actually an immature fern, a delicacy even the Greeks...
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(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.)
ELTOPIA, WA – Across the Northwest farmers markets are starting up for the season. But produce pickings have been spartan. Farmers say a cool spring has delayed growth and even killed some crops. Correspondent Anna King reports from a farm in Eltopia...
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Asparagus is at it’s peak right now at area farmers’ markets.
But asparagus season is short.
So, on Friday’s Market & Garden Report, we’ll find out how to make the most of this quintessential, spring vegetable.
We’ll talk to an asparagus expert about how to choose the best specimens — and throw in some recipes too.
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I got this email from Lee Rice at Rice Family Farms in Meridian, Idaho the other day. Lest you think organic farming is a walk in the sustainable ag. park, take a read at what Lee and his dad Gilbert have been up to for the first few weeks of the new growing season:
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