3-23 IAN Max Locavore

 Taking the locavore movement to the people literally. I am David Sparks and we are about to go shopping for produce on the farm and then eating that produce in a farm owned café. That’s coming up next. Well it’s a long distance from big production agriculture but it’s hard to deny the people what they want. So if folks want to meet and greet their own food along with its producer, they at least have an opportunity to do just that in Buhl. James Reed calls his farm called Onsen farms and owns his own café. He says Right now, we’re harvesting quite a bit of arugula, basil, Swiss chard, kale, celery, parsley, culinary herbs, flowers for the tables. Here’s James:  “We have Onsen Farms,and we grow food for our marketing café and we encourage people to come on in and eat with us here at Local Dish and to shop locally and then when it comes to my farm we are in the process of getting a farm tour schedule which will be either the last Saturday of this month or the first Saturday of next month.” So you can harvest your own salad locally,  eat it locally, and become the consummate locavore. Want to take it one step further? You can meet cows and taste the cheese at the Ballard cheese company in Gooding, learn the details of trout and tilapia at Fish Breeders of Idaho in Hagerman, or get inside the milk plant at Cloverleaf Creamery in Buhl.