If you’re the sort of person who believes that a great meal is an experience that is as much about filling your heart as it is about filling your stomach, then you’ll appreciate the cuinary mission behind La Vie en Rose.

“The quality of a wine is determined by the story behind it,” says winemaker James Holesinsky. And in the case of Holesinsky Vineyard, the story is one of a young man who was raised to be a chemist by his farther, but chose to pursue a different sort of alchemy as an adult.

In this podcast episode we interview Janie Burns, a local food personality who many people know from the Capital City Public Market as the owner of Meadowlark Farms. But Janie also wears another hat as a member of the Treasure Valley Food Coalition (TVFC) — a “network of community members working together to create a sustainable local food system.”