“So where are we headed?” I asked Jason Brashears as we hiked to the far end of a field that looked as if it were planted in nothing more promising than plowed dirt. “We are going to Okraville,” he said with a grin and a tip of his wide-brimmed, straw hat. A little further...
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Hand: The Year of Idaho Food is nearing it’s halfway mark. A year long collaboration of volunteers, the Year of Idaho Food is designed to collect and catalogue stories, recipes, photographs and videos from any Idahoan willing to share. The project is gathering material from gardeners, farmers, restaurant owners, virtually anyone with a connection...
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Jake Willis, manager of Peaceful Cove Ranch, walked through the Foothills just north of Boise. The sky was blue, the pasture green, and on a sagebrush-dotted ridge above, a herd of cattle could be seen grazing. It was a quintessential Idaho ranch scene, except for those cattle. We climbed into Willis’ pickup for a...
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I always get a slightly sickish panic just before a party that I’ve organized starts. I worry no one will show and feel naked and overdressed at the same time. Because my friends are usually “fashionably late,” I really get myself in a tizzy dreaming up disaster scenarios that never happen. But last Friday...
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When Erin Miller moved here from England, the everyday dishes her mom cooked back home suddenly became a precious, if tenuous bridge to home and family. “I didn’t know how to cook all the things that she used to make,” Miller says “and that’s how I became really passionate about passing down recipes.” So,...
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Twelve-hundred pounds of beef stare us down. The cow is six feet from the tractor, and its posture says, “Come closer, I dare you.” Joe Pickett dares, and calls the cow’s bluff by creeping a foot forward. She rears up, turns, and darts off, followed closely by her calf. “That’s the one,” says Joe,...
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Banks, located 40 miles north of Boise on the Main of the Payette River, is known as a rafting put-in and beautiful location for a summer picnic and swim. What few people know is that Banks is also home to the Church’s Backyard Farm run by Beth Church. Thirty years ago Beth married into...
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