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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Vegetables The Great Pumpkin Launch Destroys Pumpkins, Builds Houses
Posted by April Foster on Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:51 PM
At today's Great Pumpkin Launch, smashing pumpkins is taken to a whole new level. Pumpkins are loaded into a giant canon and shot at speeds of up to 900 miles an hour at distances greater than 1,000 feet. The orange bullets are aimed at large wooden targets that are generally destroyed upon the messy, seed-laced impact.
You can catch the action today, Sunday, Oct. 23, from 1-5 p.m. In addition to flying pumpkins, the event will feature a farmer’s market stocked with fresh produce, games for the kids and snacks. There’s also an all-age costume contest, a silent auction, a raffle and live music.
All proceeds benefit the Canyon County Habitat for Humanity’s building program. This charitable program builds homes for needy families in the community. Watching the pumpkins fly from the cannon is free of charge. Just head to the intersection of Orchard and Midway in Nampa, go west a bit, and look out for the flying orange balls.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Eats / Vegetables / Beer and Wine / Community Idaho Botanical Garden Celebrates Fall Harvest
Posted by Mika Belle on Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM
The rain cleared just in time for the Fall Harvest Festival at Idaho Botanical Garden over the weekend.
More than 5,000 people passed through the gates for a family friendly day of traditional fall activities, including picking and painting pumpkins, scarecrow sightseeing and conquering a corn maze. Several local musicians provided live entertainment.
"We're just trying to get people into the garden. It's such a gorgeous place," said Event Director Renee White.
Local farmers and food vendors offered a variety of products and foods to enjoy. The wine and beer garden was also supplied by a local brewery.
"Eat locally and get to know your farmers," said Jenny Easley, a co-founder of GMO Free Idaho.
Easley said her group was on hand to help inform the public that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are widespread in the public food supply. She explained that GMO products do not currently have to be labeled, and said her group is holding a rally next Sunday in Veteran's Memorial Park on the matter.
Meanwhile, the festival felt a world away from a factory farm, which is exactly what Easley intended as she echoed her mission for the event.
"Today was about celebrating Idaho's agricultural culture," she said.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Eats / Vegetables / Downtown New Restaurant Fork Taking Over Bad Irish Space
Posted by Tara Morgan on Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Some say the old Boise City National Bank building is cursed. The most recent tenant, Bad Irish—a fratty bar with ample Catholic schoolgirl-clad waitresses and loud live music—closed its doors last Saturday night. Now, Fork, a casual Northwest-inspired eatery, is slated to move in mid- to late-February.
“I think that people have referred to the space as maybe a snake-pit, I don’t think that’s the case … I think it’s a great space, I just think it needs a redo,” said Fork owner Cameron Lumsden. “It hasn’t completely evolved into what it can be.”
Lumsden, brother of Rob Lumsden, owner of Flatbread Community Oven, is giving the large, marbled first-floor a total revamp. The space’s stately columns will soon be wrapped in stained wood to complement exposed red brick walls and a more interactive horseshoe-shaped bar.
“I’ll be more casual; I call it a rustic elegance,” said Lumsden. “It’ll be real approachable from a price-point standpoint: $8-$12 at lunch, $12-$18 at dinner.”
The menu will focus on Northwest regional classics, with a flair for local produce and meats.
“Right now I have been establishing relationships and partnerships with a lot of local area growers and farmers and producers to really keep the cuisine as regional and local as possible,” said Lumsden. “It’ll have a wood-stone rotisserie in there and I’ve been talking with the Homestead Co-op about actually raising all of the chicken for us, so from their farm to our back door.”
Fork is still in the process of securing a liquor license and Bad Irish is currently considering re-opening in another location. Check BW Food News in print on Wednesday, Nov. 10 for more info.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Vegetables Could Local Food Help Save Our Local Economy?
Posted by Jennifer Hernandez on Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM
“Local food is the best path for economic recovery,” said Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Institute. “We need to rebuild our economy from the inside and not wait for the United States Department of Agriculture to do something about it."
Meter was in Boise recently to deliver a report titled “Local Foods as Economic Recovery” on the economics of local food and agriculture systems. The study focused on a nine-county region that encompasses Southwest Idaho and Northeast Oregon.
Idaho is one of the nation’s top producers of wheat, milk, cheese, onions, potatoes and dry beans. Nationally, according to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, we rank in the top 10 for production of 26 different crops and livestock. Yet most of that food leaves the state and we receive about 98 percent of the foods we consume here from outside sources. To the casual observer, our food chain appears to be running bass-ackwards.
Meter pointed out that the current food production system removes wealth from rural producers and communities instead of leaving it where it is needed most: the local economy. He also revealed that, nationwide, farmers' earnings today are the same as they were during the Great Depression.
Treasure Valley consumers spend $1.87 billion on food each year, yet $1.7 billion worth of that food comes from outside our region. According to Meter, if consumers bought just 15 percent of their fresh produce from a local farm or at a farmers market, it would be enough to produce $165 million in new farm income per year. Imagine what could happen if we all bought 50-75 percent of our produce, meat and dairy from local sources. “If you don’t invest in local production it won’t grow any higher,” Meter said.
Meter’s message is timely as national and local economies are down. Local food production could be one way to help turn the local economy around.
Meter’s presentation, which provided an economic baseline for measuring progress in our region, is the first in a two-phase assessment of ourlocal food economy. The first assessment was sponsored by the Treasure Valley Food Coalition, which is a branch of Sustainable Community Connections. The upcoming 2010 City Harvest Celebration on September 4 will help fund phase two.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Vegetables Cope on Arugula Via Edible Idaho
Posted by Rachael Daigle on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM
The newest installment of Edible Idaho aired today on 91.5 Boise State Radio.
Guy Hand—who doubles as the Idaho Statesman's food critic and runs one of my favorite Web sites, Northwest Food News—sliced into the humorous side of politics and food with this latest installment The Arugula Wars: Food as partisan politics.
Do liberals and conservatives eat different food?
Hand posed the question to BW columnist Bill Cope. Personally, Cope said, he's more of a red stater when it comes to grub, and then he told the story of trying to bait Walt Minnick with a food choice: "conservative" Coors and porkrinds or "liberal" wine and cheese. The verdict? Minnick declined them both.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Vegetables Pocket Rocket Doug: What a Find
Posted by Amy Atkins on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Oh, the buttery popcorn taste of Doug
This week's Find isn't exactly either, but as The Queen of Lipgloss as I'm, uh, affectionately called around here, it is forevermore on my "Unnecessary Items I Must Have" list. Urban Decay's Pocket Rocket in Doug, which smells and tastes like a buttered popcorn Jelly Belly, was definitely a "Find."
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