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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I simply wasn’t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink pig carcasses. “Pig beer!” I blurted out reflexively, in order to...
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Decades of state and federal efforts to recover endangered salmon in the Northwest are well-publicized. What’s less well-known is a project in its infancy—white sturgeon recovery. Scientists only seriously started studying sturgeon in the 1980’s, and concrete information about these fish—and how to care for them in a changing river system—is...
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Neighborhood farmers’ markets are popping up across America. According to the USDA, there has been a 250% growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the U.S. (1,755 in 1994 to a total of 6,132 in 2010). The growing popularity of farmers’ markets is leading many cities to try and reestablish permanent public markets...
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 SALEM, Ore. – The Northwest egg industry is changing the way it houses chickens. But animal rights activists in Oregon and Washington say the change isn’t going far enough. Lawmakers in both Olympia and Salem debated the welfare of egg-laying hens this year. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has already...
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Fish researchers affectionately call sturgeons “dinosaur fish.” They’ve swum earth’s rivers for a quarter of a billion years, making them a living relic. But scientists actually know very little about the Columbia River’s white sturgeon population. Yesterday , researchers with the Yakama Nation, the Chelan and Grant County Public Utilities Districts, and a number...
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Here is KBOO community radio’s monthly Food Show. This installment focuses on dairy. This month is devoted to dairy. Listen to dairy breakfast suggestions from Paul Gerald, author of Breakfast in Bridgetownhttp://www.breakfastinbridgetown.com and hear an interview by Host Miriam Widman with Reyna Simnegar, author of Persian Food for the Non-Persian Bride about kosher dairy Persian...
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