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Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies

“This was formerly the Smith’s Dairy,” says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl’s town square. “The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.” This...

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Artisan Cheesemakers & The FDA Tangle

MONTESANO, Wash. – Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents...

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KBOO Community Radio’s Food Show: Dairy

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...

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“Superbug” Book – How Agriculture Helped Create Drug Resistant MRSA

In conversations about agriculture and health, I think the issues raised in the book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn Mckenna, need to be front and center, especially as it relates to CAFOs...

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The Water Footprint on Your Plate

The recent rains and sunny weather have got me thinking about spring, planting vegetable gardens — and the water footprint of food production. This time of year, as farmer’s markets open up after a...

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A Tale of Two Food Systems

It’s easy to get all Dickensian when looking at what’s happening across the agriculture landscape. As the spring growing season begins, there are plenty of examples sprouting that suggest that, in...

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The Right to Farm vs. the Public’s Right to Know

Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county’s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding...

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The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers

On Aug. 3, federal and county law enforcement agents raided a Venice, Calif., raw-food club, searching for raw milk. The YouTube video of the raid showed officers, with guns drawn, working their way...

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Market & Garden Report: Idaho Cheeses

[HOST INTRO] America is in the midst of a cheese making renaissance.  Small-scale, artisans have set up shop in virtually every state.  The Northwest is particularly well represented.  Oregon has over...

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Chew on This: Jillian Greenawalt of Green Goat Dairy

On today’s “Meet Your Farmer” episode we are talking to Jillian Greenawalt of Blue Sage Farm & Green Goat Dairy.   Jillian makes the sheep cheese for Blue Sage Farm and is the owner of Green Goat...

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