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		<title>A Visit to Upper Rogue Organics</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/09/a-visit-to-upper-rogue-organics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Camberlango and Katie Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 acre fruit and vegetable farm in Prospect, Oregon. The Navickas brothers, Eric and Ryan, have been market gardening for almost 20 years now. I met these two in 2002 at the Ashland, Oregon Farmer’s Market. Instantly we became friends, and over the years they have become my most admired mentors. I wanted to introduce Katie to the Eco Vikings and show her where I learned I wanted to be a farmer. Eric and Ryan had grown up gardening and when Ashland decided to host a farmers’ market to the young Ryan Navickas it seemed a no-brainer. Grow veggies on an old empty lot and sell them at the market. Soon Ryan had recruited his older brother Eric and their farming careers began. This is around 1995, before Omnivore’s Dilemma, before… It became clear very early these guys had a talent for growing veggies and their family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food isn’t the end of Idaho Food</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/06/the-year-of-idaho-food-isn%e2%80%99t-the-end-of-idaho-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 year with colorful, weekly print articles in the Boise Weekly and radio segments on Boise State Public Radio.  Sadly, the weekly radio spots will be discontinued. These weekly stories about Idaho food helped to enlighten us about the surprising variety of food grown in the state.  They introduced us to the people who are quietly rejecting cookie-cutter industrial food and expanding our notions about what we can grow in our backyards, neighborhoods, and farms.  They brought us passion and joy about food.   Most importantly, these weekly profiles gave us hope—hope that in a world of uncertainty we have the ability to feed ourselves, and feed ourselves well. Just because the Year of Idaho Food has come to an end doesn’t mean that we should stop the festivities.   There are more stories to tell.  Please consider writing one for Northwest Food News.  And if Guy’s weekly radio shows were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/04/the-year-of-idaho-food-wraps-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Janie Burns and Amy Hutchinson hadn’t organized the project called “2011: The Year of Idaho Food,” I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to spend the last 12 months sipping gin at 8:30 in the morning (well, once), foraging for stinging nettles in the forests of McCall, riding in a big-ass wheat combine on the Palouse, sampling more fermented foods than I thought humanly possible (or medically prudent), eating goat five ways, jet boating down the Salmon in search of pioneer apples and sifting through the sands of the Snake River for a lunch of fresh-water mussels (not recommended). And that’s just for starters. Still, my weekly collaboration with the Boise Weekly and Boise State Public Radio to write food and farming stories under the Year of Idaho Food banner was just one feature of the project’s broader agenda. “The Year of Idaho Food was envisioned as a means of engaging the public to think about their food,” local food advocate Janie Burns said of the statewide project she and Hutchinson dreamt up in March of 2010 while “Amy and I were trapped in a car for six hours, traveling back from Moscow where we’d both been at a food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIMFY (Not in My Front Yard) Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmer Marty always says that winter is the best time for gardening.  Everything is perfect in your head, the possibilities are endless, and there’s not a bug or a weed to be found.  So, let’s get thinking about the gorgeous home garden you are going to have next year.  The most important thing that your garden will need is FULL SUN.  No, really.  If there’s a tree above your garden, you will need to cut it down.  Or….find a sunnier spot, even if it’s in (GASP!) your FRONT yard. My mama is a great gardener.  I learned my first gardening skills from her, in the large backyard of the house I grew up in.  After tending that lovely garden for many years, she and my dad moved to a different house with a much smaller yard, and my mom put in a much smaller backyard garden.  But alas, nearby trees and a shed thwarted her efforts, and for several years, she had a very mediocre garden, due to her NIMFY attitude.  Finally, about two years ago, I was home in Maryland for a visit and decided to spearhead a new and improved garden for my mom, not exactly in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seedy Confessions: Birthing a seed freak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never used to save seeds from my gardens. For years, I dutifully pulled the bolted plants, wiping the slate clean for the next season. I’d pour over seed catalogues, snuggled up against my heater with a steaming mug of tea, and make my selections. Plucking varieties trucked from here and there across the country, a smorgasbord would arrive in a box seemingly far too tiny to hold the hundreds housed within. Then, in 2005, I visited a farm in Sooke, BC, that changed my life. Mary Alice Johnson runs ALM farm, a tiny farm much like mine, but with one major difference—instead of working against each plant’s biological predisposition to survive by setting seed, she embraced it, allowing it to flower, to have sex, to make babies in the form of seeds. Looking around her exuberant, wild farm, full of flowers and buzzing pollinators, I clearly grasped the faux pas I had been committing. I was killing my beloved vegetables before they got a chance to reproduce and die on their own. That’s an fitting fate for a weed, not a prized garden treasure. Further, I was spending hundreds of dollars each year to let some other farm like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Year of Idaho Food Year End Reading List</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/06/a-year-of-idaho-food-year-end-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After decades of food ambivalence, the literary scene has exploded with  books about food.  Authors have unveiled the politics behind our food.  They have penned wide-ranging tutorials from gardening and backyard chickens to root cellar construction and pressing cider.  Most importantly, they have inspired and empowered millions of readers to broaden their thinking about food and how it is raised, processed, transported, and eaten. Just in time for the Christmas gift calculus comes a thoughtful guide,  2011 Year of Idaho Food An Annotated Reading List. The Idaho Center for the Book asked Idahoans for the books that “informed or inspired their relationship to food.&#8221;  Readers from all over the state enthusiastically listed dozens of books and shared their significance. The director of the center, BSU art professor Stephanie Bacon, was inspired by the Symposium on Food Security and the Year of Idaho Food.  The new Arts and Humanities Institute at Boise State sponsored a “Symposium on Food Security” in September, subtitled “Sustainable Communities: The Intersection of Food and Art.”  The keynote speaker was author Gary Paul Nabhan. Other presenters included Kathy Gardner, Director of the Idaho Hunger Relief; Bittercreek/Red Feather restauranteur Dave Krick, artist and architect Anne Trumble, and Idaho food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An End of the Season Report from the North Idaho School Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Murphree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were privileged that the Boise Weekly and Boise State Radio included a story on our North Idaho schoolyard gardens in their collaboration on the launch of “2011: The Year of Idaho Food” series.  In that story, we reported that a few individuals successfully started a schoolyard garden at a small, rural elementary school in North Idaho, helping students to plan, tend to, and harvest their own produce. This produce was then included in school lunches and snacks and shared with the community. We had no idea how much joy our schoolyard garden project would create and what an impact it would have on our students, families, volunteers, and communities.  The most important outcome of this project has been, by far, engaging these children in something that is positive for them and something that will last a lifetime.  We have witnessed so much laughter, teamwork, and pride in what they have created.  We have seen amazement at watching seeds sprout and harvesting what they have grown, shy kids coming out of their shells, older kids helping the younger ones, and simply sharing.  This project has brought communities and people together, and has allowed us to focus on our children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palouse Wheat Farmers Go Against the Grain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he&#8217;s harvesting moment-to-moment, while an automatic leveling system keeps the cab true to the horizon even as the rest of the machine tilts against slopes that can pitch up to 50 percent. It feels as if we&#8217;re riding in the coolest off-road lawnmower money can buy. As we sail along, a tractor towing a 785-bushel bankout wagon races to our side. Jensen flips a switch and his load of now-winnowed wheat arcs across a blue autumn sky from combine to wagon in a perfectly composed postcard for industrial agriculture. &#8220;We&#8217;re combining soft white winter wheat,&#8221; Jensen says as his console beeps and flashes and he steers a laser-straight line through golden stands of wheat that will most likely end up in Japan. On average, 80 percent of the wheat harvested in the Palouse region of North Idaho and eastern Washington is shipped overseas. But Wayne Jensen, a third generation Idaho farmer, is trying something new: growing a portion of his crop for local Northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Mentor Spotlight: Beth Rasgorshek, Canyon Bounty Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever driven down Orchard Avenue in Caldwell, you’ve seen the two Treasure Valleys side by side. The tired, old patchwork—square swaths of farmland in tidy, monocultured rows—hemming in the pseudo-slick subdivisions cordoned off with vinyl fences. Orchard Avenue is a visual testament to the struggles of family farmers who one by one are turning their life’s labor of love, their precious farmland, over to the cookie-cutter concrete of sprawling suburbia. It’s a sight to break your heart, if you’re looking, and if you are, you’ve noticed a little place that stands out from both of them. A well-kept barn, a couple small greenhouses, chicken coop, modest farmhouse surrounded by a colorful kitchen garden, beehives, and seven acres of diverse and tidy vegetable seed crops. Welcome to Beth Rasgorshek’s Canyon Bounty Farm, a beacon of hope on a downtrodden road. This land is dear to Beth. She played here as a girl growing up on the neighboring farm, where her dad, Joe, also raised seed crops. After a detour to Portland and a long stint co-running Urban Bounty Farm, a CSA there, Beth returned home to her neighborhood and began the challenge of farming organically in Canyon County. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Garden Through Young Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Guerricabeitia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 to the “Me” mentality; not ever considering the life and purpose of a honeybee or the growth and impact of a single tomato plant. But this is exactly what our students think of on a daily basis. BUGS kids think about the fundamental principles of sustainable food systems through the lens of our thriving, inquiry-based seven week garden program; learning the science behind gardening, acquiring practical experience in the kitchen and nurturing seeds to harvest. At BUGS, each garden journal creates an opportunity for our students to reflect on what they’ve experienced and learned. It allows them to explore their own observations and pose their own questions about gardening, about food — and more importantly about life. Whether through words or drawings these entries serve as a means for personal expression and growth. Here&#8217;s a glimpse at the journal entries of BUGS students: Maggie: “I learned [...]]]></description>
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