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First Aired - 07/18/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen spoke to Kerry Meyer, a former plant breeder and now project manager at Proven Winners, one of the biggest forces in plant marketing and naming. Proven Winners plants are found almost everywhere annuals are sold, and are a major force in the world of all things growing. Tune in to hear Kerry speak about how Proven Winners works, why educating their growers is a top priority (including through their annual "road show"), and the behind-the-scenes action of how plants get their names.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Proven Winners (16:29)
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Kerry Meyer, We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, Proven Winners, Heritage Radio Network, premium annuals, Proven Winners is starting to get great recognition, market penetration, almost every garden center will have a few Proven Winners, 6 to 8 thousand different growers, different climactic zones, water quality, it's hard to quality control plants, retail garden centers, most plants used to be named by people who propagated or discovered them, Forsythia, Brooklyn's shrub, marketing names, they are changing all taxonomist names in Britain, scientists are starting to compare DNA between plants, shifting in genus and species, taxonomists are in a class of their own in horticulture, what's the criteria for name selection, trials happen before the name, there are three levels of trials, public trial gardens, coloring,Plant Branding with Kerry Meyer (16:05)
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regional plant matrix, online database broken down by region, searchable, broken down by specific trials, which plants performed well in independant trials, you can also find out where to purchase the plants, everybody can name a product but plants are much different, plant branding, increasing brand recognition, Monrovia, Burpee, old school gardeners will recognize Burpee, naming plants, naming plants was fun for the first two years then it got tricky, Texas Parking Lot, Swinging Linda, are men naming flowers?, Pretty Much Picasso, if you name it some way to food people will remember it, seductive plant names, Kerry must be great at Scrabble!, Ten Great Landscape Plants, Artist Blue Arboretum, Low and Behold Blue Chip, Senorita Rosalita, King Tutt, Diamond Frost,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/12/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie spoke about fireflies, one of the more bizarre yet lovable creatures of the night sky (did you know they have toxic flesh?). Bernie also talks about Giant Water Beetles or "toe biters" who eat the liquefied remains of their prey, and are also themselves eaten by humans in some countries. It's always an interesting and wacky time on The Naturalist! This episode was sponsored by Acme smoked fish: a mainstay in New York’s culinary landscape for over 55 years.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Fireflies (22:25)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, flies, bugs, fireflies, New York State Conservationist Magazine, Fireflying: Hunting the Photinus Greeni, there are 175 species of fireflies in the US, most are able to easily connect with their own species, firefly populations are declining, different species prefer different environments, when Bernie was a kid he would collect fireflies, William Rice, sexual conflict and controlling behaviors, fireflies have toxic flesh, fireflies have a very short life span, Firefly Watchers, Firefly Census, artificial light impedes their ability to find other fireflies, www.mos.org/fireflywatch, fireflies are beetles not flies,The Giant Water Beetle (18:25)
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Giant Water Beetle, lethocerus cordofanus mayr, toe biters, the water bugs are bigger than cockroaches, they don't actually bite, they grab pray with their limbs, waterbugs feed by sucking liquefied remains of prey, they predigest their food before they slurp it in, there are many more insects than other orders, the only thing that is more numerous on Earth is bacteria, waterbugs feast on aquatic life, they sometimes become prey, they are considered delicacies and served fresh or cooked in some countries, many collections in the American Museum of Natural History come from private collectors, evening bat walks in Central Park, New York Bat Group, Great Silk Road exhibit is up until August 15th, Snakes & Lizards Alive,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/08/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Catch It, Cook It, & Eat It, Ben spoke to Scott Gold, author of The Shameless Carnivore. Scott has just finished a quest to eat 31 animals in 31 days, a spiritual journey that he illustrates on the air through conversation and song. Plus Gold, a Louisiana native, describes his beloved home beaches (now filled with tar-balls) in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It Introduction: Scott Gold (22:00)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Scott Gold, The Shameless Carnivore, Scott is from New Orleans, gulf coast oil spill, po' boy, invented due to a labor dispute, transit union strike, contaminated seafood, we don't know how wide it will spread, BP doesn't seem to be trying particularly hard to clean it up, Susan Spicer, Bayona, restaurants filing suits against BP, tar balls look solid but they leave an oily residue, testicle festival, LeRoy Knuckles, squirrel and dumplings, Americans have been eating squirrel for a long time,Cooking with The Shameless Carnivore (13:54)
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wild boars are menaces, there is no governmental restriction on hunting wild boar, they breed prolifically, masterful survivors, there is nothing like wild animals, wild turkey, scallops and marinated duck hearts, Tom Myland, The Meat Hook, meat markets of our neighborhoods, hipster butchers vs old polish butchers, Greenpoint, traditional polish sausage, traditional polish food, blood sausage, it's not easy to communicate with these Polish butchers if you don't speak Polish, if you're nice to the guys at the Meat Hook they will make you a sandwich, if you go to Cup in the morning at Greenpoint you'll see Scott hungover!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
