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Planting a permanent culture
From: KALW
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Permaculture is a design method focused on using space efficiently, working with nature, and sustaining resources rather than depleting them. It ai...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:45
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND -- Filmmaker Briar March
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Briar March, San Francisco, CA 3/9/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Briar March talks climate change, human nature, and cultural survival.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 20:26
A Year of Idaho Food Wrap Up
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Producer Guy Hand looks back on the highlights of the 12 month long project called "2011: The Year of Idaho Food."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Many brewers consider hops to be the essence of craft beer making. Yet, in the America's hop growing epicenter, the Northwest, craft brewers often ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gardening for native bees
From: KALW
Caption: UC Berkeley professor Gordon Frankie (left) and his team maintain an urban garden to attract native bees for research
For the past five years there’s been a phenomenon of disappearing worker bees called Colony Collapse Disorder. This has many scientists wanting to ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:27
Luring Americans Back to Fishing
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Fried fish at Fish and Game fish fry, Credit: Guy Hand
The nation lost around 5 million anglers from 1996 to 2006. Idaho fishing dropped by 28% during that same decade. That's why Idaho Fish and Game i...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fun with Foraging: Finding food in the mountains of Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Foraged foods from the mountains of Idaho, Credit: Guy Hand
Foraging fell out of favor a few thousand years ago—thanks to that invention called agriculture—but not everybody abandoned the impulse to forage. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Gospel of Spring Greens
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tim Sommer of Purple Sage Farms, Credit: Guy Hand
A look at the varied world of spring greens.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: May 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Once Loved Dandelion
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Dried dandelion root, Credit: Guy Hand
The surprising history of the once much loved dandelion.

Bought by PRX Remix and KISU


  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Small-scale ranchers try to make beef better
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Glenn Elzinga and daughters, Credit: Guy Hand
Last week I talked to author Mark Schatzker about his book Steak. In it, he tries to find the world’s best tasting beef. Schatzker discovers that t...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Mar 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Beef Better: A search for the World's best steak.
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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An interview with Mark Schatzker, author of Steak, on why great steak is hard to find and how a few small-scale ranchers are helping to make beef b...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sowing the Seeds of a New Generation of Farmers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Farmer Casey O'Leary, Credit: Guy Hand
The average age of the American farmer is 57 years old. But there's a new breed of farmer out there, one who is young, focused on the small scale a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Idaho Caviar and High Desert Aquaculture
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: A tin of Idaho caviar, Credit: Guy Hand
When driving through southern Idaho’s sagebrush desert, glistening black beads of caviar aren’t likely the first things that come to mind. Yet stu...

Bought by KUOW and KISU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fans of Fermentation
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tara Kelly with an assortment of her fermented foods., Credit: Guy Hand
A profile of an Idaho woman immersed in the ancient craft of fermentation.

Bought by KUOW and KISU


  • Added: Feb 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
All About the Sugar Beet
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Sugar Beets, Credit: Don Morishita
We've all heard about the controversy over genetically modified sugar beets. But what is a sugar beet? The answer might surprise you.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Feb 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business
From: Katherine Perry
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They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
Hard Cider Makes a Comeback
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Hard apple cider, Credit: Guy Hand
Hard apple cider, once nearly forgotten, is enjoying a national comeback. In the Northwest, Washington and Oregon are becoming big producers. Ida...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
2011: The Year of Idaho Food
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tyler Korn enjoying a garden school carrot at Northside Elementary School in Sandpoint, Idaho., Credit: Photo by Michele Murphree
A new year-long project hopes to bring Idahoans together over the subject of food.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
Local Food and Farmers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Produce that local food farmers sell directly to customers at farmers' markets, Credit: Guy Hand
A look at why some farmers are turning to local food.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 08:13
Market & Garden Report: Holiday Market
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
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The late-season farmers' market.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:40
Market & Garden Report: First Frost
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
Caption: Clay Erskine picking tomatoes before the first frost, Credit: Guy Hand
One of the most important lessons of gardening: Letting go.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 17, 2010
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Market & Garden Report: Cheese
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
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America is in the midst of a cheese making renaissance — including Idaho.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Market & Garden Report: Planting Fall Fruit Trees
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
Caption: Fall Fruit, Credit: Guy Hand
Fall is a great time to plant fruit trees.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Market & Garden Report: Beignets
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
Caption: Mary Rohlfing with a basket of fresh beignets, Credit: Guy Hand
A look at one of the "value-added" products available at farmers' markets.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:10
Market & Garden Report: Why We Garden
From: Guy Hand
Series: The Market & Garden Report
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In 2009, 7 million new American families began gardening. But why?

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Sep 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1