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Idaho's Bounty Spring Farm Tour - Saturday June 19th

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Idaho’s Bounty Co-op, the local, online food cooperative based in Ketchum, will be hosting a Spring Farm Tour on Saturday, June 19th. The Spring Farm Tour gives residents an opportunity to get to know some of our local producers and see exactly how their food is produced.

The Spring Farm Tour will begin at Ballard Cheese in Gooding, continuing to The Ecology Patch outside Buhl, and finishing at Fish Breeders of Idaho outside Hagerman. The tour will begin  in Gooding at 11 am and finish by 5:30 p.m. We will arrange for carpooling from the Wood River and Treasure valleys. The tour is suitable for all ages and is a great family activity.

The first stop will be at Ballard Cheese. The Ballards control every aspect of production from the farm to the table. Steve grows the feed, and the family milks and feeds their 75 Jersey Cows themselves, with the help of some part time employees to milk and package the cheese. Ballard’s cows produce 2500 lbs of milk per week, which results in  about 1000 lbs of cheese per week. We will visit the dairy, learn about the cheese making process and taste samples of award-winning Ballard cheese.

Next we will visit The Ecology Patch. Theresa Strolberg has been selling fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, pies, and pickles since 1992.  At 63 years old, Theresa doesn’t want to expand her business but would like start teaching - to pass on the knowledge of food preservation, baking, gardening and marketing that she has accumulated over the years. Theresa doesn’t just talk about sustainability, she lives it.  She chooses an organic, sustainable way of life to protect the environment and have healthy food. Theresa will show us her organic orchard and garden and we will learn about her hand-made insect traps.

The tour will finish at Fish Breeders of Idaho, where Leo Ray produces and processes high quality rainbow trout, catfish, tilapia and sturgeon, as well as sturgeon caviar. The tilapia and catfish swim in 80 degree geothermal water, while the trout and sturgeon swim in cold spring water, constantly flowing through concrete raceways.  We’ll meet Leo and visit the sturgeon streams and fish hatchery.

Idaho’s Bounty’s mission is to develop and promote a local food system for the communities of Southern Idaho that will ensure safe, consistent, fresh, and ethically cultivated products, delivered directly from local producers.

Please bring a sack lunch, water and enthusiasm! Price: $5 per person or $15 per car. For more info and to sign up, please call Julia Augustus at 721-1412, email jaugustus@idahosbounty.org or visit www.idahosbounty.org/events.php

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