Local Roundup: Recent Episodes
Ann and Chris
The Local Roundup is the podcast to go to for news, views and interviews about food and other issues on the Palouse.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Destiny Sternod of the Pullman Good Food Coop. Destiny describes the Pullman Good Food Coop's plan for a food cooperative in Pullman and how they plan to go about achieving this.
Ann Bowes interviews Andrew Duffin, historian and former resident of the Palouse. Andrew Duffin takes the audience through a brief agricultural history of the Palouse and touches on the environmental issues that have been around for a long time. He provides the insight of a historian and applies this to future implications for the Palouse area.
Ann Bowes interviews Bill Cadwallader about EMFs and smart meters. Bill explains what these are and what many of the concerns are. He offers advise as to how to live and thrive in our 21st century homes and how to manage wireless devises.
Chris LaPaglia interviews community garden coordinators about the gardening opportunities for people who don't otherwise have a place to garden. Chris finds out about the garden locations, size, cost and schedules for three of the community gardens in the Palouse area.
Chris interviews Holly Carter about the Tuesday Community Market. Chris asks what that market place is all about and what the new developments are.
Ann interviews Anthony Alvarez, a dedicated volunteer for the Whitman County Veterans-On-The-Farm program. Ann asks Anthony about his current work helping veterans who want to start farming operations and about what brought him to this work.
Chris interviews Erika Sattler of Texas Ridge, a farm that grown pasture-raised beef and pork. Chris asks Erika about her background and about her approach to producing her beef and pork.
Ann interviews Renee and Emmett Love about their local Kombucha brewing business. The Loves share how they came to start their enterprise and describe a bit about how their brewing process works. The espress an enthusiasm for their product and customers.
Ann interviews Hannah Wolff of Moscow's Humble Burger. Hannah shares with Ann how Humble Burger was started and some of the things they've tried to achieve with this unique little eatery.
Ann and Chris depart from their usual food focus and delve into the issues of EMFs and smart meters.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Arlene Falcon of Buy Local Moscow. Ann Bowes interviews Janis Willard, a local producer of lamb and Rex Harder of Country Natural Beef.
Ann Bowes interviewed Alicia Rock, Marketing Manager of the Moscow Food Coop and the person in charge of reaching out to the Coop membership for this year's election. Also interviewed were the candidates for the 2018 Moscow Food Coop Board of Directors: David Sutherland, Cheyne Mayer, Brooke Lowrey, and Rob Ely.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Holly Carter. Holly is a student at the University of Idaho who is working on a degree in Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture. Along with her studies, she is working on building up the Tuesday Community Market that is held every Tuesday afternoon through the summer. She talks about the food and crafts that new vendors bring to this unique marketplace.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Greg Hodapp of Hodapp's Berry & Dairy. Greg talks about his small farm which features berries and berry products along with milk products from the goats on his small farm. In addition, Greg talks about some unique products that he brings to the Moscow Farmer's Market.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Theresa Greiner of Fiddler's Ridge nursery. Theresa talks about the history of Fiddler's ridge and how they approach their local nursery. She shares with Chris the wide range of items they grow, from garden starts to shrubs and trees.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Erika Sattler of the Texas Ridge farm in Deary, Idaho. Erika shares the sustainable approach that Texas Ridge takes to farming the hogs and beef that they are known for.
Ann Bowes interviews Anthony Alvarez, a local farmer from a local farming family who has worked with the Veterans On the Farm program. Anthony talks about his background in farming and shares his insights about farming from the perspective of a being a veteran himself and working with other veterans who want to be farmers.
Chris Interviews Wayne Williams of the Key Family Fruit Farm. Wayne talks about growing tree fruit on a family farm in the Walla Walla Valley and marketing it at regional farmers markets.
Ann Bowes interviews Alison Tompkins, a local beekeeper about keeping bees. Alison shares her insights on beginning beekeeping.
Ann Bowes interviews Neil Marzoff, owner of Rants and Raves about his brewery and it's beginnings.
Ann Bowes interviews Graham Lily, owner and manager of Hunga Dunga Brewery in Moscow, Idaho. Graham shares his experiences in starting up and running his brewery.
Ann Bowes interviews Toni Salerno-Baird, owner and manager of Palouse Juice. Ann learns how Toni came to start Palouse Juice and what makes it work.
Ann Bowes talks with Glenn Holloway, former Director of the Board at the Moscow Food Coop. Glen describes his background and how he came to be interested in local food. He discusses the current limitations as they relate to the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Ann Bowes interviews Amanda Argonne, manager of the Pullman Farmer's Market about the 2018 season. She talks with vendors from the Moscow Farmer's Market on the opening day or the market.
Chris LaPaglia talks with Daniel Stewart, manager of the Moscow Farmer's Market about the 2018 Farmer's Market.
Chris LaPaglia talks with Nels Peterson about his commercial kitchen in Moscow, Idaho and it's impact on local food availability.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Joel Huesby, a farmer in the Palouse region and an expert on meat processing and the meat industry.
Ann Bowes interviews Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram from the University of Idaho about the study of the field of agriculture from the perspective of a sociologist.
Chris LaPaglia interviews Kerry Morsek of the Moscow Food Coop about local food available at the coop.
Ann interviews people at the Moscow Farmer's Market and explores what "food freedom" means.