{"id":3188,"date":"2014-03-01T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:46:20","slug":"rising-popularity-of-hummus-drives-growth-in-production-of-chickpeas-in-the-palouse-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/01\/rising-popularity-of-hummus-drives-growth-in-production-of-chickpeas-in-the-palouse-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising popularity of hummus drives growth in production of chickpeas in the Palouse region"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3189\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Hummus_from_The_Nile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3189\" alt=\"Hummus with olive oil (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Hummus_from_The_Nile-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Hummus_from_The_Nile-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Hummus_from_The_Nile.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hummus with olive oil (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The rising popularity of hummus across the nation has been good for farmers like Aaron Flansburg.<\/p>\n<p>Flansburg, who farms 1,900 acres near the town of Palouse, has been increasing the amount of chickpeas he grows by about one-third each year to take advantage of good prices and rising demand.<\/p>\n<p>Acreage devoted to chickpeas has exploded in the past decade in Washington and Idaho, which grow some two-thirds of the nation&#8217;s supply.<\/p>\n<p>In the Palouse region, there are more than 150,000 acres producing chickpeas today, up from about 12,000 acres in 2000. That&#8217;s according to Todd Scholz of the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council.<\/p>\n<p>Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are also grown in California, Montana, North Dakota and other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The rising popularity of hummus across the nation has been good for farmers like Aaron Flansburg. Flansburg, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[670,669,167,352],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","tag-chickpeas","tag-farm","tag-food-2","tag-us","mauthors-nicholas-k-geranios","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}