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First Aired - 08/23/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Hot Grease Nicole hosts Mara Gittleman to discuss her organization Farming Concrete. While community gardens are a much-touted solution to environmental, food, and animal welfare issues, there is a surprising dearth of information about the amount of green gardens in NYC. Farming Concrete aims to gather all possible info about the city's gardens to help sustain current gardens and start new ones as efficiently as possible. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a culinary mainstay in NYC for over 55 years.
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Hot Grease Introduction: Farming Concrete (11:29)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete, Mara's Defining Moment, Tufts University, research in Univeristies didn't involve people enough, Mara is from Jersey, Mara grew up between two highways, Mara studied urban agriculture systems in Ethiopia, displacing people into high-rises and condos destroys a community's food system, deforestation in Haiti, trading jobs for the ability to grow food, Farming Concrete is a grass roots organization combining research and communities, GrowNYC, holes in data related to community gardens, putting research into the hands of community gardens empowers them, monetizing food grown, approximating greenhouse gas emissions,Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete (13:04)
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Erik Bellsford is the other half Farming Concrete, if you have a fall harvest Farming Concrete has scales for you, data for community gardens, first time that anyone has measured the amount of food being produced in community gardens, there are 484 gardens in New York City, LandTrust, Community Garden survey, only a fifth of gardeners are using the internet, older gardeners did all the initial legwork and have all the knowledge, maps are a great tool for communication, collard greens are the most popular green, 78.9 percent of gardens have it, 77.6 percent of gardens are growing lettuce, hearty kiwis, Bengali gardeners, fruit trees, figs, top two are apple trees and peach trees, 80% of the gardens have fig trees,More with Mara Gittleman (9:13)
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Roberta's, volunteer run project, next to nothing budget, critical mapping, Farming Concrete, all the employees visit gardens by foot, it only works because of the committed team, a few cities would like to copy this model, there is a tool kit being worked on, American Community Garden Association, Daniel Bowman Simon, building gardens will help kids learn and understand the benefits of eating healthy, this a new era of community and school gardens, there are many leaders in New York City, some are known nationwide and some only known on their block, Yonette Fleming, farmingconcrete.com, they need help mapping gardens!, get involved!, contact mara@farmingconcrete.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/10/2010 12:30PM
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Bernie hosts Lee Mandell & Chloe Bass of Boswyck Farms who tlak about the potential of hydroponic farming in Bushwick.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Boswyck Farms (14:31)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Boswyck Farms, hydroponic farms, installaions in homes and rooftops, educatoinal component, what is hyrdoponisc, growing plants without soil, Aztecs used to do it, floating gardens, early versions of hydroponics, hydroponicist, some plants grow in the air, epiphytes, Everglades National Park, staghorn ferns, old man's beard, using sand gravel and clay pellets to grow plants, vertical farming, Bushwick, the neighborhood has changed a lot, affordable housing, rental units, more businesses opening up, urban farming movement, workshop for adults at Buglabs, school food is a national tragedy,Hydroponic Farming with Lee Mandell and Chloe Bass (15:13)
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Lee Mandell, Chloe Bass, persto, basil, growing food for schools, kids don't love green, we need to address that as a country, home economics, pizza, jello, chocolate pudding, pesto with spinach and arugula, vary the type of cheese, olive oil, you need less water for hydroponic growing, hydroponics in Japan, farm visits are available, once people see it it makes a lot more sense, we have a lot of unused acreage, rooftops have great potential, there is a lot of red tape to overcome, food handlers permits,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/20/2012 01:00PM
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This week on Straight, No Chaser Katy Keiffer has an in-depth conversation about vertical farming with Dr. Dickson Despommier, the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century. A professor emeritus at Columbia University, Dr. Despommier spent thirty-eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health. Hear some radical ideas including underground farming without daylight and plasma arc gasification. From wind power in Holland to seed banks in Japan, hear about some of the concepts being integrated into new agricultural models across the globe. This show was made possible by Fairway Market.
"Vertical farming is simply tacking high tech green houses on top of each other and integrating the systems."
"The concept of vertical farming is not new. If you look back at history you can find hanging gardens of Babylon and references of urban gardening and agriculture - but the timing was wrong."
--Dr. Dickson Despommier on Straight, No Chaser
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Dickson Despommier & Vertical Farming (16:18)
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Dickson Despommier, urban agriculture, vertical farming, Korea, agricultural research, seed banks, Japan, Kyoto, land use, Plant Lab, light wavelengths, LED lights, underground farms, nuclear grid, plasma arc gasification, energy forms, fossil fuels, Holland, Linkoping,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
