Apr 18, 2019
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For Sourcing Matters episode 74 we join chef & food system
advocate Kris Komori, and farmer and seed propagation Beth
Rasgorshek for a conversation @ The Treefort music festival in
Boise, ID – recorded in-front of a live audience.
With three consecutive James Beard nods, Kris Komori is the rock
star of Idaho’s chef world. A graduate of the College of Idaho, he
sharpened his kitchen skills in Portland before moving to the Gem
State. Komori’s creative, constantly changing menus drew fast
admiration when State & Lemp opened in 2013. Most recently, he and
his team have been developing a new concept and restaurant that
will launch in downtown Boise soon.
Beth Rasgorshek has worn many hats: journalist, pioneering CSA
farmer, flour producer and now seed farmer. Today, Rasgorshek grows
certified organic vegetable seeds on seven tillable acres at Canyon
Bounty Farm in Mampa. She now raises and sells both small-seeded
and big-seeded crops like green beans, dry beans, edamame, various
flower seeds, watermelon, muskmelon, peppers, wheat, leeks and
onion.
We’re a lot more alike than different. That’s said about people from areas all over the world. But, when it comes to farmers and food producers – the similarity and bond is unquestionable. With the regenerative agriculture revolution we’re discovering that we have friends and like minded brethren on every corner of planet -and- increasingly everywhere in between. TuneIn to hear about what’s going on in Idaho. Learn how our problems with a common enemy could ultimately unite our diverse stakeholder for battle.
ABOUT TREEFORT: The Treefort Music Fest is a five-day, indie rock festival which is held at numerous venues throughout downtown Boise, Idaho in late March. Treefort has been called “the west’s best SXSW alternative” and Boise’s preeminent artistic, cultural and musical happening which has “morphed from quirky music festival to consuming community event. It has also been characterized as a “music lover’s joyous mayhem” which showcases and amplifies the soul of Boise.