What do you do when your garden is invaded by bugs? If you’re an organic gardener, a plague of pests can test your convictions. Do you patiently pick the bugs off, accept serious losses or pull out the big chemical guns?
In this installment of the Market & Garden Report correspondent Guy Hand...
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One of gardening’s most fundamental chores — watering — is also one of its most vexing. Even seasoned gardeners struggle with the question of when and how much to water.
In this episode of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms about...
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For the last two months, the Market & Garden Report has aired tips on vegetable gardening — with the help of Clay and Josie Erskine of Peacefully Belly Farms. That’s the “how” of gardening. Today correspondent Guy Hand is going to look at the “why” of gardening — why so many people...
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Does it get too hot to grow salad greens in a southern Idaho summer? Not according to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, they tell correspondent Guy Hand some secrets for growing salad in summer.
(Josie) So, right now we’re cutting salad...
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Blame a cool, wet Spring for our slow start to the garden season. But it’s also a perfect time to focus on fundamentals, like good soil. In this Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms about that most basic of garden skills:...
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As the weather warms up, so do bugs. That’s why gardeners should prepare for pests early. In this installment of The Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms about controlling that buggy bane of the Treasure Valley: earwigs.
(Clay) So, we’re going to...
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We’ve had a cold Spring and gardeners are anxious to get plants like tomatoes in the ground. But when? And what varieties? In this installment of The Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand digs up some useful tips on growing tomatoes.
(Plant Sale sounds) (Woman): Is there a red beef steak? (Josie):...
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In this the first installment of Edible Idaho’s new weekly Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand looks into tomorrow’s seed swap at the Capital City Public Market. He finds out why saving seed is not only practical, but vital.
(Rasgorshek) This is so cool, I just love opening this little box.
(Sounds of...
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Over the past several months, the Western Folklife Center has enlisted yours truly and ethnographer Sarah Barsness to document the stories and food ways of Somali Bantu, Congolese, Bhutanese, Burundian, Meskhetian Turk, Colombian, Ethiopian, Burmese and Bosnian families all living in the Treasure Valley.
The result, a newly published cookbook, Making West Home in Idaho:...
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After a long, lingering winter, Spring has finally sprung here in southern Idaho. To celebrate, NPR’s Edible Idaho is trying something new:
A weekly radio show called The Market & Garden Report.
Every Friday morning beginning April 30th during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), producer Guy Hand will bring you the news on...
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