(Editor’s Note: Craig Goodwin manages the Millwood Farmers’ Market, is a Master Food Preserver and Pastor at Millwood Presbyterian Church in Spokane. His Year of Plenty blog has been an excellent mix of gardening, local food and the spirituality he finds in food and gardening since the winter of 2008. That was when Goodwin decided, as he writes,...
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(Editor’s Note: The Radio Television Digital News Association announced Thursday that this Edible Idaho story on saving pioneer apples in the River of No Return Wilderness has won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Audio Feature Reporting. According to the awards website ”The Radio Television Digital News Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic...
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Erin Guerricabeitia, executive director of Boise Urban Garden School, also known as “BUGS”, speaks to us about the Urban Garden School and why it’snot just for kids anymore. BUGS, with guidance from garden coordinator Mike Wallace, is hard at work on a plan to propagate community gardens throughout Treasure Valley. The Adult Education Series on...
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(Editor’s note: Boisean Kim Metez recently began producing a food show called “Chew on This” on Radio Boise, the Treasure Valley’s ambitious new community radio station. As Kim describes the weekly interview program, “Chew on This” is all about “food, farms and holistic health.” She has graciously agreed to let Northwest Food News post her...
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I’m visiting friends and attended a food conference here in my once hometown of Santa Barbara, Ca. I went to school here and spent the ’90s here — and couldn’t resist posting a few shots from my then favorite Saturday farmers’ market. It was quietly raining at the time, but didn’t stop a good...
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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...
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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...
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