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First Aired - 10/08/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Brooke Silvaggio of Bad Seed Farm in Kansas City, Missouri. The two discuss the burgeoning urban farming scene in Kansas City, Bad Seed's Farmers' Market, and getting recent grads excited about farming.
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Kansas City Urban Farming Scene (9:54)
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Bad Seed, heirloom varieties, Kansas City Missouri, urban farming criminalized in Missouri, urban gardens build community in depleted neighborhoods, suburbia losing its soul?, political ecology of urban gardening scene, people in Midwest have a strong connection to agriculture, over fifty urban farms in Kansas City, suburban expansion in Kansas City, Kansas City transportation system failing to cater to suburban sprawl, higher vacancy rates than Detroit and Cleveland, Brooke Silvaggio, does the presence of an urban farm lower property value?,Brooke's Entree into Farming (9:18)
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photojournalism, Brooke worked on organic farms in exchange for room and board whie traveling abroad, Bad Seed, what Brooke is growing, rotational grazing: chickens and goats, parasite management, radishes, hearty turnips, fruit trees, grapes, currants, Brooke's plot is intensively but intelligently farmed, heavy mulches, farmers economically marginalized by society, wave of rockstar organic farmers, how did Brooke get into urban ag?, no till farming,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/15/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's At the Root of It, Erin sits down with Gary Dusek, the mastermind behind Roberta's wine program, to talk about the history of grapes, how wine made its way around the globe, and some little-known, yet remarkable grape varieties.
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The Weekly Wine Recap (3:45)
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Malbec, Germany, champagne shipments down almost 20%, wine, Roberta's, Hugh Johnson, Long Island crop struggling due to high rainfall, Del Potro wins US Open, Germany to build a bridge over Mosel river that might threaten local vineyards,Where Does Wine Come From? (12:50)
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Gary Dusek, Roberta's wine program, Gary's career as a sommelier, Roberta's plans to grow wine, vitis vinifera: cultivated not wild wine grape, vitis lambusca, origins of wine, origins of wine in Mesopotamia, Iran, Iraq, every civilization has roots in Pangea, origin of wild vines in Mesopotamia and migration into new world, oldest fermented beverage is mead, Etruscan culture, wine becomes solidified in Northern Africa and all other areas adjacent to water, religious associations, wine thought to be the blood of Christ, transportation of wine throughout the world came through religious missionaries, Eucharist, the tenant grape, terroir important in Uruguay, the Tannat grape,Nitpicking Grape Varieties (11:13)
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Argentinian wine, first vineyard planted in California in 1779, Puglia, Californian Zinfandel grape linked to Puglia, Bonarda grape does fantastic in Argentina, Bonarda grape thrives in Mendoza, wine varietals, viticulture, Italy's biodiversity, basilicata, Chile has oldest vines in the world, Phylloxera decimated vineyards, Phylloxera: small, sap-eating greenish insect, Torrontes grapes virtually impossible to find in Spain,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/20/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne discusses what's behind a sports stadium, both architecturally & culturally.
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Introductions to Joe Le, Graduate Architect, and Sports Architecture (12:28)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, graduate architect, hand drafted, architects, sports architecture, large ancient oval arenas, Greek Amphitheater at Siracusa, Roman Arènes de Lutèce in Paris, artificial turf versus natural, teams and owners want natural surface, soccer or football, Yankee's stadium, Met's stadium, multipurpose uses of stadiums,Further Discussion on the Impact of Sports Arenas on Local Culture (20:52)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, modern sports arenas, Yankee's Stadium, air traffic, Oilers, Yankees, Fenway, sports architecture, Camden Yards, Baltimore, colloquial experiences, emotionally charged, same game, different experiences, regional differences in tail gating preferences, theatre design is manipulative, ease of navigation and consumption, safety of the player, injury is part of the game, not the stadium, field, stands, the Bronx, Chicago, Madison Square Garden, the architect becomes invisible, acoustics and seats are better in modern stadiums, intimate stadiums, Wrigley's Field, The New York Knicks,Nostalgia in the Fan Experience and Current Design Themes (17:34)
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sacred places, nostalgia in the fan experience, Yankee's Stadium, maintenance over nostalgia, world series, Yankees, subconscious architectural themes, baseball is not enclosed, baseball is a summertime game, Joe DiMaggio, basketball arenas, Madison Square Garden, multi-use arenas, general purpose design, natatorium, capital constrained, seasonal buildings, sports architecture, Wrigley's Field,Architectural Parti and Salutations (9:25)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, sports architecture, Carrie and Jason Gibbs, shipping containers, Roberta's restaurant, Brooklyn Velodrome, track for sports cycling, steep stadium seating, jumbo-trons, bike track, cyclists, post-tension concrete, back to human powered transportation, architectural parti, architectural creativity with architectural parti, positive notions,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
