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First Aired - 04/18/2013 12:45PM
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Learn all about compost on this week's Rooftop Farming Update with Ben Flanner. Erin Fairbanks calls up Ben to talk about ideal compost ratios, and what you can toss into your compost pile. What qualifies as a 'green', and what would be considered a 'brown'? Find out where you can pick up some compost for your very own NYC garden!
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Breaking Down Compost (9:14)
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compost, nutrients, organic waste, waste stream, plants, vegetables, beans, meat, fish, eggs, odor, urban farming, compost recipe, vegetable scraps, nitrogen, Greenmarket, coffee grounds, greens, browns, wood shavings, plywood, dry leaves, pests, Lower East Side Ecology Center,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/28/2013 11:00AM
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Factory farming is the focus on part 3 of our compendium to the upcoming TEDxManhattan event in NYC on February 18th. Erin Fairbanks chats with Steve Wing, professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina about the community health impacts of factory farm animal production. Tune in as they discuss the challenges we face in improving large scale livestock production, reducing pollution and ensuring safety in our food systems. This program was sponsored by Glynwood.
"As far as the future - unfortunately I'm afraid we may have to continue these sorts of studies because we haven't seen positive signs from the regulatory agencies that they will take action to reduce the pollution levels and the suffering of people who are being affected." [13:00]
"For the most part, people are not really aware of the consequences of food production when they're buying things at the store." [17:00]
--Steve Wing on HeritageRadioNetwork.org
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First Aired - 01/31/2011 01:30PM
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This week on Let's Eat In, Cathy welcomes Vandra Thorburn, composting expert and President of Vokashi. Vokashi is a kitchen waste recycling program that turns your food waste into fermented food waste that can be used on its own in a garden or turned into conventional compost. Tune in and learn more about the different types of waste and how they can be used. Even the most urban apartment can find a productive use for waste! This episode was sponsored by Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.tabardinn.com
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Let's Eat In Introduction: Vokashi Kitchen Waste Solutions (14:28)
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Cathy Erway, Let's Eat In, Vandra Thorburn, Vokashi, composting, kitchen waste solution, it's like a diaper service, fermenting food waste, Eric Lancaster, fermented food waste can be added to other garden and yard waste, that becomes compost material, you can also use fermented food waste directly in soil, Vandra picks up waste from 35 households right now, it's a lifestyle change and a learning process, feeding waste to community gardens,Vandra Thorburn Explains Fermened Food Waste and it's Many Applications (9:44)
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what CAN'T go into compost for Vokashi?, avoid liquids, don't put in plastic wraps or rubber bands, no Styrofoam, packing peanuts are native of corn starch, collecting and storing all of our food waste for months at a time, Vandra's biggest dream is to take the tons of food waste and feed it back into contaminated soils, Gowanus Canal, will fermented food waste change the chemistry so that it's not toxic?, Vandra believes so, microbes can be used to oil and salt remediation, can they be used for lead remediation?, cycle of life, from dust to dust,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
