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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
Caption: Chestnuts in chestnut burrs, Credit: Guy Hand
After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resi...

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


  • Added: Dec 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Organic cranberries in Ocranics' facility have been sorted and labeled prior to being packaged for delivery., Credit: Marian Daniells
(Holiday themed) I trace cranberries back from my fork to the farm where they originated.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:46
Caption: Quince, Credit: Guy Hand
Modern science acknowledges the unique power of taste and aroma to teleport us back in time. It’s simply the way our brains are wired. For Boisean ...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KLCC, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Rob Martin, Cape Cod lobsterman, Credit: JP Davidson
A lobsterman and his girlfriend try to build the market for locally caught and processed lobster, in an increasingly global industry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Amy Wincentsen of Little Bear Dairy, a raw milk dairy, with Butterscotch., Credit: Guy Hand
Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several ...

Bought by KLCC, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Bear's bagels, Credit: Jane Fritz
A baker brings bagels and bialys to the small, North Idaho town of Hope.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KISU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A cast member at Plimoth Plantation bakes bread in the village oven
For most home cooks, pulling off a traditional Thanksgiving feast is a tough job. An even tougher job? Replicating a meal fit for a Pilgrim in a ki...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WHCP-LP Cambridge, WVTF, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 7
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Say the word “goat” and most Americans picture a horned cartoon with a taste for tin cans. But what we Americans don’t get about goat–and the rest...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The Northwest has several crop quarantine zones to control the spread of diseases. In southern Idaho, a quarantine zone helps protect the states l...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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
Caption: Pioneer apple varieties found along the Salmon River, Credit: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand jet boats into Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness with a team searching for remote and abandoned pioneer-era apple orchards. T...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Wheat fields in the Palouse region of North Idaho, Credit: Guy Hand
The wheat industry traditionally focuses on international markets, but a group of Northwest wheat farmers are trying something new: growing and mil...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: A just picked pawpaw, Credit: Guy Hand
The pawpaw is America's largest native fruit. Once loved by George Washington, it's now nearly forgotten and survives today largely thanks to backy...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Chopsticks: Made in Georgia
Coals to Newcastle: Chopsticks made in Georgia are being exported to China

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poster at Clearwater Canyon Cellars, Credit: Guy Hand
The Lewiston-Clarkston Valley in Washington and Idaho was the Northwest's first award winning wine region in the late 1800s. It faded after Prohib...

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We''ve been watching the trends for about three decades. That we're getting fatter is hardly news. So why can't we fix it?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Two research teams get unexpected results and health advocates see even more reason to get people to give up sweet drinks.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Rymes (l) running in the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon, 2011
The smartphone is the newest weapon in the battle against weight -- and for some, it's surprisingly effective.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
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At this New Hampshire high school, it took a professional chef to get kids to eat healthy food.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:34
Caption: Wild Turkey's Jimmy Russell, Credit: Rick Howlett
Kentucky's signature distilled spirit--bourbon--is surging in popularity in the U.S. and abroad.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 03:21
Caption: Lentil Festival mascot, Credit: Guy Hand
A trip to the National Lentil Festival in Pullman, Washington and the lentil growing Palouse region of Washington and Idaho.

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


  • Added: Sep 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: A locally-grown tomato, Credit: Kyle Durbin
An feature-length interview with Slow Food International Secretary General Paolo di Croce about how his organization plans to feed the growing worl...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
Caption: A dish made with food grown near Louisville, Kentucky, Credit: Dalton Main
An extended interview with Slow Food International Secretary General Paolo di Croce about how his organization plans to feed the growing world popu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gin making ingredients, Credit: Guy Hand
Bardeday Distillery in Eagle, Idaho has been making gin for 11 years, which requires a dedicated panel of tasters willing to sip gin at 8:30 in the...

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


  • Added: Sep 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3