In B-dubsville, we’ve been celebrating the Year of Idaho Food all freakin’ year. Writer Guy Hand has turned out one insightful article after another chronicling the local-foods movement in the Potato State. Why then, might you ask, are we psyched for the Day of Idaho Food, when we’ve been donning our local party hats...
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If you grab a plastic tray and shuffle through an Idaho school lunch line this fall, things will look a bit different than you might remember. In addition to whole grain pasta and brown rice, you’re also likely to find a Healthy Choices salad bar and bright posters advertising “incredible edible Idaho” grapes or...
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Lately, I have been reading articles about roof top gardens, vertical gardens and other amazing things happening all over the country and the world, as people are returning to growing their own food. This is not just happening in Europe, California and Oregon, but right here in Boise, Idaho. One of these places...
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By collectively demystifying the contents of the global pantry and by sourcing, growing and producing food independently of centralized, fragile and detrimental food trades, we are rediscovering our own worth as community members – people capable of interacting with and shaping the food landscapes around us. We are bringing our food culture home because...
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Tremendous potential exists to make Treasure Valley communities and rivers more resilient to climate change by gardening with greater water efficiency. According to Liz Paul, Idaho Rivers United Boise River Campaign Coordinator, local food production is a river-dependent process. “It doesn’t rain enough here to grow much food without irrigation. Gardening and farming requires...
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There’s not another crop that caresses the senses like lavender. That sounds a little sentimental, a little grandmother’s-potpourri corny, but “caress” is the right word for lavender. Even before arriving at theLakeside Lavender Festival in Nampa on a mid-July weekend, the scent of it drifted on the air like fresh laundry and violets. And...
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Brandon Stankewsky and his wife, Katherine, have an odd way of doing business at the Capital City Public Market. Not suspecting the nature of the Standkewski’s fruit and vegetable stand, a man in his fifties stops to peruse their bins of fresh greens, radishes, carrots, and beets. “Hi, is this cilantro?” he asks. Brandon...
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