Sound Consumer archive
September 2011
Organic Seed: A resource at risk?
by Matthew Dillon
While we may not think about seed when eating breakfast or helping our children into their cotton pajamas at night, seed is the foundational step in feeding and clothing ourselves.
Cage-free egg update
Initiative 1130 for cage-free eggs in Washington state will not be on the November ballot after all.
Taste PCC
A Local Food Celebration
The weekend after Labor Day, you’re invited to a new festival — Taste PCC — we think you’ll find fun and informative. For admission, please bring a shelf-stable item to donate to the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank.
The University of Washington Farm
by Helen Vaskevitch
University farms have been around since the turn of the century. The University of Washington (UW) hosts a student farm these days, but it doesn’t look like a typical plot of row crops.
Butter is back
Overshadowed by olive oil and other fats for decades, butter’s making a comeback. In 2005, for the first time since 1957, Americans ate more butter than margarine.
Recipes from the September issue
Sweet September corn
Fresh corn is such a simple late-summer pleasure. Its milky creaminess captures the essence of the season and needs no more adornment than a rub of butter. If you’re feeling adventurous, however, the following recipes offer fun twists to use this sweetest of seasonal vegetables.
Soil & Sea: reports from our producers
This month reporting on apples, nectarines, Washington peach producers, the organic grape crop, Reed avocados, wild mushrooms, sweet corn and peas, stone fruits, nuts, honeybee losses and the sustainability of yellowfin tuna.
What's new in store — September 2011
Local, organic produce is abundant this month — sweet corn, new-crop apples and pears, heirloom tomatoes and more! Also don't miss specialty meats from Niman Ranch, and delicious new tarts and other desserts from Essential Baking Co.
Celebrate organic!
by Kristin Vogel
PCC Farmland Trust Communications Manager
Join our first “Celebrate organic!” tour of farms in the Snoqualmie Valley, a beautiful and unspoiled agricultural region in the shadow of metropolitan Seattle.
Letters to editor
Farming and family values · GMOs in non-organic corn? · From Facebook · Avoiding soy protein isolate · Chemically treated fish · 7th Generation, Teach for America · Nitrates in organic hot dogs · A cure for Crohn’s disease
News bites
"Natural" isn't natural · Organic vs. no-till · Farm-to-School ends · Climate chaos losses · Chemical trespass · Metal bottles with BPA · Nonstick cookware and ADHD · Ending ethanol subsidies? · Downer hogs · GE rice settlement · GE labels worldwide · GE costs
PCC Board of Trustees report
Fall member meeting · Goldie Caughlan retires · Board report · Next board meeting · Board recruitment begins