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First Aired - 03/28/2013 12:45PM
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On this week's urban farming update, Ben Flanner talks about some recent experiences with birds at the farm! Sound interesting? Tune in and find out more!
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Week 6 - Birds! (30:00)
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warmth, hoop house, seeds, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, peppers, bulbs, flowers, hawk, chickens, raptors, rats, chicken meet-ups, chicken wire, CSA, Long Island City, volunteer, Brooklyn Grange,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/09/2013 01:30PM
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Jeanne Hodesh is talking with Erin Fairbanks about another stellar GrowNYC Greenmarket location- Tribeca. Hear about the history of the neighborhood, the Taste of Tribeca, and the chefs that shop at the Tribeca Greenmarket. Find out what to do in the neighborhood, and what to pick up at the market! Spring is slowly making its approach; find out what Greenmarket locations will be up-and-running across the city, and learn about GrowNYC's 'Educated Eater' event! Thanks to our sponsor, Bonnie Plants.
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Tribeca (8:44)
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Tribeca, Jeanne Hodesh, Washington Market Park, bake sale, community cookbook, street festival, Taste of Tribeca, Terroir Wine Bar, chefs, Francesa's Bakery, stone fruit, honey, Ronnybrook, Valley Shepherd, fresh cut flowers, Carroll Gardens, South Jersey, Hudson River, Socrates Sculpture Park, hard cider, Jimmy's No. 43, Breezy Hill Orchards, Natural Gourmet, edible flowers, sustainable seafood, fillet, Educated Eater, local ingredients, Purple Yam, Hiroko Shimbo,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/14/2010 03:30PM
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Author Amy Stewart is the guest on a special Valentine's Day themed episode of We Dig Plants
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Valentine's Day (15:21)
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We Dig Plants, Whole Foods Market, Groundworks Inc., Heritage Radio Network, Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krieg, www.groundworksgarden.com, Valentine's Day, florists, panic and desperation in gift giving, roses, Amy Stewart, Flower Confidential: The Good The Bad & The Beautiful, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, Organic Gardening, San Francisco Chronicle, Valentine's day is the busiest day a flower shop will face all year, holiday flower sales, one third of all American adults will buy flowers or a plant on Valentine's Day, half of these buyers want red roses, Latin America sources many flowers, Ecuador, Columbia, 80% of imports go through Miami, some passanger aircrafts hold flowers, some grocery stores buy flowers directly,Plants & Flowers on Valentine's Day (15:34)
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the grower gets 1/10th of what the customer pays for the flower, flower prices, $1 a stem, how can we get flowers cheaply, rose plants are pruned, smaller flowers on shorter stems, economics, greenhouses, potted plants on valentines day, they are very much a local business, you cannot ship soil across our border because of the possibility of disease, the Dutch own the flower industry worldwide, flower auction, the European market is thought to be more sophisticated, is the world ready for a blue rose, cocaine,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
