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Farm-to-Market: Island Grown Farmers Cooperative
I spotted a familiar face on the front page of Friday’s Wall Street Journal. Farmer Bruce Dunlop looked back at me while I read about the mobile abattoir, or “slaughterhouse on wheels,” he designed
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Extreme “Locavore” Household Vows Not to Forage Further Than Own Refrigerator
By Barry Foy, Special to The Ethicurean BAKER HEIGHTS, WA — Only a few miles outside the town of Mount Vernon, in Washington State’s Skagit Valley, the Diaz-Elliott family recently embarked on a bold experiment in local food sourcing. In hopes of reducing their carbon footprint by minimizing
Flood assistance for Washington farmers
Dairy cows were among the victims of Washington's floods. Photo by Mike Kane for the Seattle P-I. Washington and Oregon suffered disastrous
Cheese Baby visits the Estrella Family Creamery
From our Seattle correspondent Jenni P.: Anthony Estrella calls my daughter the Cheese Baby, and since she’s been old enough to talk she’s called him the Cheese Man. We’ve been buying cheese from Anthony at Seattle farmers markets for the past couple of years. Every week we take home
Catching up: Washington State locavoreanism
The Butter Bitch and I have been on hiatus for the past few months, due to our day jobs and ongoing projects. The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine devotes most of this week's issue to an overview of Washington's locavorean
Horizon’s half-and-half attempt at going “beyond organic”
Horizon Organic (the largest organic milk producer in the U.S.) today announced it had published a new set of guidelines governing "Standards of Care" on its company-owned farms. Under fire from the Cornucopia
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Methow: Where our meat comes from
Cascadia Girl over at has a nice write-up of weekending in Methow Valley, including where to stay and what to do. Why the interest here? Methow is where the Butter Bitch and
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Digest: Culinary prodigy, food-sections roundup, more bad news for fish
Article most guaranteed to make you feel inadequate: A 16-year-old Canadian named Luke Hayes-Alexander is not only the dedicated, driven executive chef of his family's restaurant in Kingston, but he makes his own charcuterie and smoked banana ice cream. If the poor kid weren't painfully shy, we'd say
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Digest: Why you should care about the Farm Bill, “good” vs. “bad” food, UglyRipe tomatoes, cornification counterattack
Farm Bill 101: Tom Philpott plans to analyze the political economy of farming and suggest a socially and environmentally sustainable farm policy. (Someone has to do it, and we're glad he's volunteered.) The 2007 Farm Bill will affect everybody who cares about what they eat, and/or about the environment,
“Best of the Puget Sound” list
Not to be outdone by a list of favorites from our old stomping grounds, we here in the Puget Sound region have our own list of fine foods to celebrate. With one exception, we had not encountered these treats before 2006.
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Provisions Mushroom CSA through Helsing Junction
I've lost track of the post where the local mushroom CSA was discussed - oh, there it is, but I'll give this topic a full post just the same. Provisions Mushroom CSA is piggy-backing on Helsing
Digest: Organic Pastures epic, GM & heritage spuds, Slow Food UK
L.A. Times Magazine: A gripping, epic story about Organic Pastures dairy, the E. coli cases linked to its raw milk, and the family history of owner Mark McAfee, which goes a long way
Digest: Where the wild things aren’t, Terra firma plans, slo-growing
Diner's Journal/NYT blog: Ever take a walk on the wild side in restaurants? Dairy Queen likes to — which is why she's shocked and embarrassed to learn from NY Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni that by law, the "wild" game served in U.S.
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Digest: Dirty salmon, Washington organic fees, Inc’s Green 50, and more
Seattle P-I: The EPA has launched a website that covers the ecosystems of Puget Sound and Canada's Georgia Basin. The site includes a lot of information about air quality, water quality, wildlife health, human population health, and
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Reichert flat (like flat-Earthers) on global warming
Dave Reichert is Washington's Congressional representative from the 8th District, which is safely protected from the wilds of Seattle by Lake Washington. He is in a tough election battle with Darcy Burner,
