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		<title>Chestnuts Return to America</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/16/chestnuts-return-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think we got a rainstorm coming in,&#8221; Peggy Paul said, pointing to the ominous band of clouds rolling our way on a blustery, mid-November day. She led me into the shelter of her nearby orchard as icy rain began to tick against the dry leaves and bristled burrs that clung to some 500 chestnut trees. As my eyes adjusted to the light under that nearly closed canopy, I whispered the word &#8220;beautiful.&#8221; Those trees both protected us from the rain and reminded me&#8211;with hundreds of trunks giving way to a tangle of interlocking branches&#8211;of an enchanted forest far more than a commercial orchard. Enchanted or not, a chestnut forest is a rare sight. That&#8217;s because, as a recent New York Times article put it, the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) &#8220;had a worse 20th century than the British Empire, the ice-delivery trade or rhyming poetry.&#8221; Once a stately member of the Eastern hardwood forest ecosystem, up to 4 billion American chestnut trees fell victim to a blight during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually scouring the species from its native habitat. That&#8217;s why the majority of Americans today experience the chestnut via imported and frequently inferior Chinese chestnuts, or vicariously through that 1946 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seedy Confessions: Birthing a seed freak</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/14/seedy-confessions-birthing-a-seed-freak/</link>
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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>Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/28/seeking-genetic-diversity-in-abandoned-apple-orchards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we roared downstream through the River of No Return Wilderness via jet boat, skipping off rapids and dodging just-submerged boulders, I decided my imaginary movie version of this adventure should be titled Indiana Appleseed in the Canyon of Lost Treasure. Naturally it would be packed with whitewater action, pioneer spirit, hungry black bears and most importantly, a whole lot of strange apples. First, the backstory. Sadie Barrett&#8211;who took me on this Salmon River jet boat expedition&#8211;and project partner Candace Burns decided they needed to save the neglected, sometimes century-old apple trees they saw slowly dying all over Idaho&#8217;s Lemhi County. As a kid growing up in Salmon, the 35-year-old Barrett used to munch on apples from trees planted by Idaho&#8217;s early pioneers. But upon returning to her hometown after a 10-year absence, she was stunned by the number of trees that had disappeared. &#8220;They&#8217;d either been built over or just had perished because they hadn&#8217;t been irrigated,&#8221; Barrett said. Barrett and Burns decided this threatened edible heritage shouldn&#8217;t be left to quietly sink into oblivion, so the two women made plans to catalog, take cuttings and graft as many worthy fruit trees as they could find. As we skittered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Awe of the Pawpaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Huskey, a big man with a kind smile and soft voice, greeted me in his Meridian yard, garden hose in hand. Behind him stood an unruly forest of fruit trees. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a common home gardener that happened to run into a friend that knew about pawpaws,&#8221; Huskey said by way of introduction. I hadn&#8217;t heard of that mysterious fruit until I spotted Huskey&#8217;s produce on display at Boise Co-op one fall. This friend of Huskey&#8217;s had grown pawpaws back in Alabama, and knowing that Huskey loved growing odd fruit, thought he should try the stubby-banana-shaped pawpaw in Idaho. In response to his friend&#8217;s suggestion, Huskey asked what nearly everyone west of the Mississippi asks: &#8220;What&#8217;s a pawpaw?&#8221; Considering the fact that the pawpaw is the largest edible fruit native to America, its lack of fame is a little surprising. An understory tree common to the eastern United States, the pawpaw was cultivated by native tribes, loved by George Washington, frequently depended on by Lewis and Clark, and the subject of a children&#8217;s nursery rhyme (way down yonder in the pawpaw patch). It has a sweet, creamy interior with a flavor reminiscent of mango and banana&#8211;a sunny, equatorial taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Mentor Spotlight: Beth Rasgorshek, Canyon Bounty Farm</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/10/farmer-mentor-spotlight-beth-rasgorshek-canyon-bounty-farm/</link>
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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>Remembering Spud Day in Shelley, Idaho</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/09/21/spud-day-in-shelley-idaho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Coronado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To any child growing up in the small town of Shelley, Idaho, there was always the knowledge that there would be plenty of candy coming their way during the three “major holidays”, known as Christmas, Halloween and, of course, Spud Day.  Some of the greatest memories of my childhood and teenage years involve the annual celebration dedicated to the Russet potato, put on by the citizens of Shelley in mid-September, just prior to the potato harvest. I was always amazed at the way the directors of the festivities were able to transform a sleepy, small city park into a full blown carnival and fair in just a matter of a couple of days.  Every Spud Day would bring with it a sea of outsiders from all over to sample the delicious food and the country-time atmosphere.  The citizens of Shelley have always been so proud of the annual celebration and even boast the appearance on national television in consecutive years on NBC’s The Today Show and CBS’s Good Morning America.  These nationally televised programs introduced the nation to the “World Famous, Spud Day.” Every Spud Day began with a parade down Shelley’s main street.  As is the case with many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coeur d&#8217;Alene Tribe Reconnects To Food Traditions</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/09/16/coeur-dalene-tribe-reconnects-with-food-traditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping into the Family Foods supermarket in Plummer, 34 miles south of Coeur d&#8217;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 mountains of deep-fried everything&#8211;and apart from a long wall of pricey produce and a rather impressive meat counter&#8211;space is given over to a typical assortment of packaged and processed fare. There is nothing exceptional about that supermarket&#8211;apart from the fact that it sits on the Coeur d&#8217;Alene Indian Reservation, home to a community grappling with the obesity, diabetes and other food-related illnesses that studies have linked to the kind of unexceptional food lining American grocery store shelves. A group of local food activists say Plummer&#8217;s only grocery store isn&#8217;t the root problem, nor is it the convenience stores and fast-food outlets that dot Plummer&#8217;s main drag. It&#8217;s the lack of healthy, affordable food options available to a town of 900 people. That group, the One Sky/One Earth Food Coalition, wants to change things. &#8220;We&#8217;re rampant with diabetes,&#8221; said LoVina Louie as she and three other coalition members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a Taste for Lavender</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/07/29/getting-a-taste-for-lavender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not another crop that caresses the senses like lavender. That sounds a little sentimental, a little grandmother&#8217;s-potpourri corny, but &#8220;caress&#8221; 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 once I&#8217;d caught a glimpse of those fields of lavender flowers, I couldn&#8217;t help but let out an involuntary, lavender-laced sigh: The place looked like a French Impressionist painting. The word &#8220;lavender&#8221; comes from the Latin &#8220;lavare,&#8221; which means &#8220;to wash.&#8221; Lavender has a cleansing, comforting quality that ancient Romans revered, spiking bathhouse water and the travel kits of marching soldiers with lavender (apparently, even world dominators like an occasional caress). In 19th century London, young girls sold nosegays of lavender to mask the Dickensian stench, and during World War I, hospital workers swabbed floors and open wounds with lavender. Today, lavender is more often found tucked into dried flower arrangements, stuffed in sachets or distilled into perfumes and scented soaps. But this Mediterranean herb is also cousin to mint, sage and thyme and those in the know use the delicate-tasting angustifolia side of the Lavandula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Letter to a CSA Member</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/07/20/love-letter-to-a-csa-member/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear CSA member, As I was harvesting your greens this morning, I wrapped each little bundle of mizuna — pale green sharply-lobed leaves topped with cheery yellow flowers — with a bow, arranging it as a gift I couldn’t wait to give you. At the CSA pickup later this afternoon, you’ll ooh and ahh as Lori and I pull each treat out of the cooler. We’ll give you the story, the dirt on each one, as we go. “This mizuna is starting to bolt,” I’ll tell you, “but that’s ok. It’s not bitter yet and you can add the flowers to your salad.” You’ll ask questions about the items you’re unfamiliar with, and recount particularly memorable meals you made with your share last week. I cherish these interactions. I’m sure every passionate tradesperson would treasure the opportunity for such a tactile and appreciative interaction with the beneficiaries of their labor, and for that alone I am grateful. However, there’s more. Small scale farming is, if nothing else, a labor of love, and it’s love of food, above all, that joins us together in our seasonal adventure. Sure, there are other loves, other civic duties and economic responsibilities fulfilled by our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luring Idahoans Back to Fishing</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/07/08/luring-anglers-back-to-fishing-with-a-fish-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mouth-watering aroma drifted out of an industrial warehouse behind the Jerome Fish and Game office. &#8220;Make sure you&#8217;ve got your cholesterol meds on board,&#8221; grinned Ed Papenberg, a senior wildlife technician for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game&#8216;s Magic Valley Region, as he entered a doorway into what looked like a coven of Macbethian witches toiling in dim light over a half-dozen bubbling caldrons. But the scent was less eye of newt than deep-fried, down-home fish fry. &#8220;This is the second year we&#8217;ve done this,&#8221; Papenberg said of a free public feed christened the Annual Magic Valley Sportsmen&#8217;s Fish Fry, Chips and Tips. &#8220;And it&#8217;s basically an event where we invite folks in the community to come and enjoy fish that were raised or caught locally.&#8221; Fishing isn&#8217;t often considered in terms of the local food movement&#8211;and the word locavore wasn&#8217;t uttered at the fish fry. That doesn&#8217;t mean the two don&#8217;t coincide. &#8220;Hunting and angling really fits with this whole notion of finding sustenance close to home and finding sustenance that you have a hand in procuring,&#8221; Papenberg said. &#8220;Although we don&#8217;t state it in this fish fry&#8211;&#8217;welcome locavores&#8217;&#8211;that&#8217;s actually implicit in a lot of what we&#8217;re doing.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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