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Fruit and Vegetable Farming

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Potato Expert Sees a Future in "Microchips"

    ​With the potato chip industry continuing to consolidate, a University of Idaho agricultural economics professor thinks micro-chipperies could help save potato farms too small to deal with international conglomerates. "The good thing is, as you give consumers more choices, the total demand in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Macrina's Squash Harvest Bread

    Eve M. TaiThe mini squash harvest bread​Butternut squash is one of Nature's genius ingredients, amenable to both savory soups and Macrina Bakery and Cafe's Squash Harvest Bread. A stalwart in Seattle cafes, the bread is a panopoly of fresh roasted butternut squash, nutmeg and cinnamon topped ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    BC Orchard Promotes Wine With Apples

    Most wine sellers know the maxim "buy on an apple, sell on cheese." As Hugh Johnson explains in his memoir, A Life Uncorked, "An apple is a cold appraiser of a wine's constitution. No wine tastes best with an apple, and bad wines taste miserable." But British Columbia's largest private fruit packer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Forget Westlake Center and City Hall -- Protestors Ought to Occupy Washington's Apple Orchards

    ​Washington's apple growers are getting desperate. Harvest season is here but the workers needed to pick the state's signature crop are nowhere to be found. Idaho faced a similar crisis with its potatoes, as did Georgia, where blueberries, onions, and melons "rotted in the fields" because many ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    USDA Looks to Ban Potatoes From All School Lunches--Idaho: 'Bad Idea!'

    ​Among the 50 American states, can anyone guess which one would rather not see a nationwide ban on potatoes in school lunches?

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Tomato Industry Expert to Speak in Seattle

    ​Strides made in the tomato industry could provide a model for improving working conditions on farms nationwide, according to the industry's leading chronicler. Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, credits the Coalition of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Potato Industry Pins Hopes on School Vegetable Bars

    ​The state's potato industry, now fighting proposed regulations to limit starchy vegetables in school lunches, is hoping to put hot vegetable bars in 10 Washington schools. The bars, modeled after salad bars, would feature an array of vegetables and legumes that students could use to top thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Chris Voigt Wins an Award for Being the Biggest Potato Pimp Ever

    ​OK, first of all. You want to see a party? You go down to the National Potato Council's Annual Meeting and Expo in Las Vegas. This is a gigantic meeting of people who do nothing all year but think about potatoes, then get released on Sin City for one weekend every year to just go BONKERS. I d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    At The Herbfarm, Eat Like Chris Voight, The 20-Potatoes-A-Day Guy

    ​Last week, we wrote about Chris Voight--the Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission (no, I'm not making that up) and the man who is in the process of becoming a Blog-o-Land superstar just because he decided to eat 20 potatoes. Every day for 60 days. And nothing else. H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Stuff We Like: Chris Voight, Potato Pimp and Blog-o-Land Superstar

    Hi, I'm Chris Voight and these are my potatoes!​This is Chris Voight. He is the Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission. And for reasons that aren't completely clear (something to do with proving the nutritional awesomeness of the potato, though I don't think anyone was re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Seattle's First Slow Food Summit, Tonight at Town Hall

    In terms of its environmental awareness and obsession with food, Seattle is ripe for tonight's Slow Food Summit, inspired by last year's 60,000-strong Slow Food Nation in San Francisco. Erika Lesser, executive director of Slow Food USA, asks the question Good, Clean, Fair Food -- Can We Have It All? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2008

    Blackberries, blackberries, blackberries

    In terms of its environmental awareness and obsession with food, Seattle is ripe for tonight's Slow Food Summit, inspired by last year's 60,000-strong Slow Food Nation in San Francisco. Erika Lesser, executive director of Slow Food USA, asks the question Good, Clean, Fair Food -- Can We Have It All? ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2008

    Bare Market

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2008

    The No-Berry Blues

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007

    More Dirt on Why We're Still Eating Bings in August

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • Food

    August 31, 2005

    Red Raspberries, Golden Raspberries, and Heirloom-Tomatos

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • Food

    January 8, 2003

    Catch 2002

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Local Brilliance

    Foodie gifts with hometown connections.

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