Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 06/09/2011 02:00PM
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Zach Zink graduated with a bachelor's degree in religion from Saint Olaf College in 2003. He worked at Holden Village in Chelan, WA for 2 years as a lead cook, developing a passion for cooking with fresh, local foods and wholesome ingredients. From Holden he went to Growing Things Farm in Carnation, WA for an organic farm internship, then to Bennett's Bistro on Mercer Island where he continued to cook with pure, natural whole foods. In 2007 he was hired by Pike Place Market's Preservation & Development Authority where for 2 years he was part of the team that coordinates the day to day crafters and farmers markets. Zach currently works for Cloudview Eco Farms as a "focalizer" of the CSA, Sales, Farmers Markets, and Cooking. He also tends a small herd of milk and meat goats and a flock of chickens. He is a former board member and continues to volunteer for the non-profit Tilth Producers of Washington, an association of several hundred organic and sustainable farms in Washington state.
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Greenhorn Radio: Zach Zink (24:12)
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Zach Zink, Cloudview Ecofarms, Royal City Washington, Zach began farming when he started working for a man running a vegetable farm, an irrigation format called The Circle--a big long overhead irrigation system, there's a lot of traditional non-organic rural farming in Central Washington with little diversity, growing commodities like apples corn wheat and potatoes, an internship on an organic farm called Carnation, the initial farmer's market offerings that made Cloudview successful, small cities often have the same innovations as bigger cities but offer a lack of megalomania, Zach's earlier inability to garden while working at an office job lead him to find a quarter acre lot and start a community garden there in Seattle, people are tired of their bland organic sections at grocery stores, last year Zach's CSA started at 20 & this year its starting at 65 (all by word of mouth with no ads), Zach DOESNT want his own farm as there are lot of opportunites to be an employee of a farm, you don't have to buy your own land or farm to be a farmer, rotational grazing and holistic goals,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/29/2010 04:00PM
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This week on At the Root of It Erin spoke to Andrew Morris and Joe Collins of Briceland Vineyards in Humboldt County. They've created a gold medal wine that is one of a kind (and so popular that its rather hard to come by on the East Coast). Tune in to hear the highly original story of sparkling wine in Humboldt. This episode was sponsored by Barterhouse: purveyors of the finest imported wines from across the world.
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Week in Wine Recap (4:47)
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Erin Fitzpatrick, At the Root of It, Heritage Radio Network, Barterhouse, week in wine recap, Oregon Pinot Noir, Patterson is proposing cuts including the authorization to sell wine in grocery stores, crop report, struggling times for boutique winemakers in California, distribution, Bill Hatcher, A to Z Wineworks, the amount of unpicked fruit this year will be staggering, market, Pabst Blue Ribbon has been sold to Metropolis,Briceland Vineyard & Humboldt County (15:59)
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Briceland Vineyard, Humboldt County, late harvest Riesling, the winery started commercially in 1985, microclimate of Humboldt county, sparkling wine, Boonville, local ranchers all were convinced that you couldn't grow grapes there, the climate is very similar to Champagne, terroir, Champagne was invented out of necessity, 70% Pinot Noir, finishing touches of Chardonnay, structure, ripeness,The Arneis Varietal & Wine Distrubution (15:07)
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Andrew Morris, Joe Collins, The Arneis Varietal, Mediterranean wines, Orange County Fair Gold Medal, it can be a hard sell when people don't recognize the name, its easy to talk about a Gold Medal wine, very small production means most purchasing is local, 95% of the wine gets sold in Humboldt County, tax rules, distrubting on a national level, the cost of shipping is not too expensive, other local agricultural products unique to Humboldt, grass fed beef, seafood, local goats cheeses, Humboldt Fog, www.bricelandvineyards.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/19/2010 02:00PM
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This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Clayton Burrows of the non-profit Washington State organization Growing Washington. Growing Washington has an extremely far reach in terms of their goals for the state, but the unifying theme behind all the work is helping resident Washingtonians. Clayton works to help spread sustainable agriculture, environmental and societal health, and whatever help Washingtonians need. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of grass-fed beef from the coast of California.
Photo: Clayton Burrows, Growing Washington Director
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Greenhorn Radio: Clayton Burrows (19:18)
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Clayton Burrows, Washington State, Growing Washington, growingwashington.org, 501c3 that was incorporated in 2003, Vashon Island, an organization of young mostly latino farmers that run small farms west of the cascades, in addition to growing food GW has community programs, its mission is to raise and represent farmers, a mix between new generation farmers who did not grow up on a farm and traditional ag background farmers, as the country becomes more urbanized less people have access to a farm, the drive and thritiness of latino farmers, the Seattle market, diversified and sustainable farms, a lot of people come in with no experience whatsoever, some people come in with 30+ years in the fields, Growing Washington attends over 20 farmers markets a week, GW has 3 CSA programs, GW sells to restaurants and grocery stores and has a u-pick operation, GW sells to public and private schools ranging from pre-k to colleges, all of the aforementioned operations are joint marketing ventures comprised of all the farms together, a 22 year old college grad who wants to get into farming has a huge amount of barriers to entry, GW is a leader among their peers and often the top vender by working together, the growing and selling of food supports the non-profit aspect of Growing Washington, GW has a food bank farm where all the food grown goes to a food bank, the power of collaboration, the cultural preservation of agriculture, Clayton feels the entire food pyramid rests on the shoulders of immigrant farmers, promoting and supporting the immigrant farmers that are stocking our grocery store shelves, Washington State has a very large indigenous population, GW has worked with various tribes and works to get healthier food into the diets of local tribes, the diet of foragers, what we think of agriculture and what Native Americans think of agriculture is not as diferent as one might think, young farmers usually can't purchase farms unless they inherit it, most young people that grow up on farms want to leave the farm these days, its an awful of work, the work is exciting enough to keep everyone going, Clayton's begining and first moment of inspiration, growing up both sides of Clayton's farmers were dry land farmers, Clayton's parents are right-leaning conventional farmers, at the end of the day all farmers' goal is to feed the family, at first Clayton ddin't want to go into farming seeing how much work his parents and grandparents did, working on environmental policy and agriculture idoes not have to be mutually exclusive, Clayton wanted to have an organzation that is not an advocate group in a high-rise in the city, rather than thinking of farmers as constituents or members GW thinks of farmers as their peers, GW knows whats in season what the going price for crops are because they operate within agriculture, farmers know GW means business because they farm too, growingwashinton.org clearly lays out each aspect of the organization and how commited each farmer is to making it work, young farmer mixer, if you're ever in the Puget sound region stop by and say hi!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
