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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday. August 31, 2008 A7 a cause Jane Black lion woiih of locally grown , produce at its stores in 2008. We were inundated with Its no longer the fringe eleTim is how far some people calls, Callender said. People ments," said Tracey Ryder, will go these days to get locally said, Please use my land. founder of Edible CommuniMake it productive." ties, a publisher of regional grown food: In California, more than 40 residents volunThe term foodie is no lon- food magazines. We call it teered their back yards to an ger reserved for an exclusive the new mainstream. This weekend, the move- chib of chefs and discrim inat-- . aspiring young farmer who couIdnT afford to buy land ment shows its strength as ing diners. Today, food has of his own. In exchange for become a focus and a cause tens of thousands of food a weekly supply of produce, " for a broad audience, from activists gather in San Fran--. & cisco for Slow Food Nation would till him such as the Chico individuals their they lawns into rows residents offering their yards four days of political ral- - .. at lettuce, broccoli, squash to an idealistic urban farmer, lies, lectures, dinner parties and peas. and tastings. The conference, to corporations such as These weren't Bay Area Chipotle, which this month an- three years in the making, is nounced that each of its more the first national assembly of yuppies, either. In working- class Chico, about 83 miles the American wing of Slow than 730 restaurants will be north of Sacramento, the required to buy a percentage . Food, an Italian organization residents who offered prop- of the produce it serves from founded in 1986 in reaction '' d Lee Cal- to the opening of a localfarms. erty to lender last October included Sodexo, the worlds largest restaurant (a McDonald's) in now a real estate agent, a retiree, Rome. sources from 700 indepen- Food lovers, chefs and proa school administrator and a newspaper deliveryman, ducers can wander through , , dent, regional farmers and who offered a plot behind his is overhauling its menus to taste pavilions to sample trailer. Callender had so many focus mi seasonal and local artisanal cheeses, honeys anand olive oils, or admire the options, he was able to select ingredients. Wal-Ma- rt seven properties nounced last month that it quarter-acrvictory garden"' ' together that he couldmcycle plans to buy and sell $400 mil that organizers planted this THE WASHINGTON between the plots and begin to cobble together a business. POST . . . . CHARLIE UTCHFIELDAsaociMad I Idaho Rancher Paul Nettleton takes his Iridium Satellite phone from its protective case on Tuesday. . . . . fast-foo- . : John Miller the uncharted region in 1818 is the first place the agency has , armed cowboys with satellite SILVER CITY, Idaho This phones. Silver City's summer craggy gullies where Idaho residents feel a little safer, .cowboy Paul Nettleton runs 1,200 head of cattle are often knowing Nettleton is always ' precious minutes from reliable connected to one of Iridium Satellite LLCs 66 satellites cell phone coverage. That could spell disaster orbiting overhead, not just the : cell phone tower on nearby in this region where sudden War Eagle Mountain thats summertime storms howl in from eastern Oregon, bringing often blocked by the regions terrain. dry lightning that can ignite Hes kind ofour voiceon wildfires on sage-- . and juniper-coverehillsides. the mountain, said Jim Hys-- . V Unchecked, the flames could lop, who hetysnin the local Silver City Fire and Rescue. '. quickly turn this ok! mining town's historic wooden build- - .. Hyslop has family roots here ings to ashes. dating to 1916. .. This spring. Nettleton and However, the ranchers have six other Owyhee County ; to use their new phones to yet ranchers who make theii; liveli- ' report a fire. hoods in some of America's : After nearly eight years of most remote backcountry uninterrupted drought, last ' Winter's ample snowfall and began carrying satellite tele; phones provided by the federal this spring's rain has made Bureau of Land Management much of Owyhee Countys high and the Idaho Bureau of Home- country greener than normal ' land Security. this year, limiting the fire dan- It's an effort to turn men ger. Typical summer storms whose ranching families have ' with dry lightning and sudden been wedded to this land for ' gales just haven't materialized. more than a century into A year ago, however, wildfires blazed across 3,000 a higMech advance guard against devastating wildfires. ' square miles of Idaho an Minutes count in that counarea three times the size of try," Nettleton told The Associ- Rhode Island. It took three weeks to cojk ated PressOne morning last week after parking his four- - . tain one of those wildfires, a v lightning-cause- d wheeler outside the towns complex of blazes that covered nearly Idaho IIoteL Midyear-ol:. 1,000 square miles, killing wild- Right now, its pretty quiet. life and livestock, blackening But it'll come." The BLM says Owyhee grazing ground and charring habitat for seasons to come County the name comes from South Pacific explorer for sensitive species such as Captain Cooks spelling of Sage grouse. It was the largest Hawaii and honors Hawaiian single fire ever fought by the BLM in Idaho. trappers who disappeared in. ' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . . : close-enoug- h e . summer in front of City HalL There will be panels led by the food intelligentsia, includ-- . ing Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma," and "Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser. Think of it as a dinner party thrown by revolutionaries," said Anya Fernald, Slow Food Nation's executive director. Some attending the conference undoubtedly are attracted by the star power on display. But the movement's foot soldiers are drawn to food for a broad range of reasons. Some, such as Lee Callender, see food as a path to social justice. In addition to feeding the families who donate their land, Callender, along with his wife, Francine Stuelpnagel, and partner Max Kee, has created GRUB . 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