Posts Tagged ‘ local food movement ’

On Wednesday, September 21st,  the Boise School District held what they called “Harvest Day.”  The event was held in cafeterias district-wide with local foods dominating the menus.  Locally produced foods included trout patties, baked potatoes and local tortillas, as well as fresh zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, watermelon and nectarines.  Over 21,000 students had local...
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On any given summer morning, you can wander through rows and rows of vegetables at the Boise Urban Garden School (BUGS) and spot a group of fourth to twelfth graders sitting, crouching or sprawling as they scribble and sketch entries in their custom-decorated garden journals. These days we expect most kids to be committed...
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My neighbors and I wanted to honor “Day of Idaho Food” so we all decided to host a “Hood” progressive dinner focusing on the bounty of Idaho’s amazing foods. The rules were that each family participating had to bring to the table something local. It could be homemade, or locally found, along with a...
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Stepping into the Family Foods supermarket in Plummer, 34 miles south of Coeur d’Alene, is not unlike stepping into a supermarket anywhere in rural America. A case full of day-glow donuts and thickly frosted cakes grab the eye the instant a shopper walks through its door. The deli counter is stacked in crisp brown...
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The day of Idaho Food was celebrated on Labor Day as 37 people gathered at the 100 year old farm house in Garden Valley to eat local food, share stories, recipes and lots of desserts. Highlights of the event included chevre goat cheese made by 10 year old Zoey Foote.  Zoey bought her goat...
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The elementary and high school students of Council, Idaho are perhaps the luckiest kids of the state. How can this be since they are in one of Idaho’s rural school districts that have a very small tax base? Well, contrary to a belief that rural equals backwards, the Council schools have one of the...
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Here’s the full list of the foods people ate yesterday, on The Day of Idaho Food.  Although the plan was to ask folks to include at least one Idaho-grown item in their menus, you’ll see that many of them found it easy enough to make their menus all-Idaho and nearly always local.  And the...
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