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First Aired - 10/17/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen tackle the drama of the tulip bulb. Take a look back as far as Greek mythology for a glance at the role tulips have played in the human experience (including reputed healing powers). Find out why you have to plan ahead to plant them, and learn why they can be such a cash crop in Holland and yet so simultaneously unreliable. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a mainstay in the NYC culinary market for over 55 years.
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We Dig Plants: Bulb Drama! (16:43)
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Heritage Radio Network, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, We Dig Plants, Spring 2011!!, you have to plan ahead and plant in fall, healing powers of sap, daffodils, Greek mythology, tulips, Tulipamania, tulip was introduced to Europe from Central Asia, tulips was status symbols, many people invested in tulips in Holland, dutch hybridized tulip bulbs, you can find tulips in every color of the rainbow, tulips need a cold period of dormancy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/19/2012 02:00PM
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This week the ladies of We Dig Plants are fresh back from MANTS. What is MANTS you ask? Tune in to find out more about the history and goings on of the Mid-Atlantic Nusrsery Trade Show from hosts Alice and Carmen including the perennial plant of the year, the dangers of an advancing Boxwood blight, and how an industry concerned with greenery is trying to go green with rice hulls and other innovative products and techniques. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
"The perennial plant of the year for 2012 is: "Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' . "
"Boxwood is a very commonly cultivated plant, it's important to the industry, it's in every garden . . and it's under attack."
--Carmen Devito on We Dig Plants
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We Dige Plants: What is MANTS? (18:53)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus-Krieg, Carmen Devito, Brooklyn Blend Soil, trade show, MANTS, plant trade show, plant people, plant trends, boxwood, Mid Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, ag extension, Boxwood blight, Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost', shade loving plants, green industry, rice hulls, Terrain, Green Depot, Organics Mechanics, Ball Horticultural, old plant companies,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/08/2011 02:00PM
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This week on We Dig Plants gets down and dirty with the Gowanus Canal. Joined by Jeff Hutchinson and Erikof the Gowanus Canal Conservancy hosts Alice Marcus-Krieg and Carmen DeVito talk about what the Conservancy is doing to follow their mission to be a "steward for the preservation, restoration and green development of the Gowanus Canal and its environs for the greater good of the community", from their compost project to volunteerism. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.
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What's Growing in the Gowanus? (16:35)
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Gowanus, We Dig Plans, Alice Marcus-Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Fairway Markets, Gowanus Canal, industrial plants, pollutants, PCB, pesticides, cholera, Gonorrhea, Jeff Hutchinson, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, landscape architecture, dance, compost experts, volunteering, art and gardening, Grow NYC, compost projects, greenmarkets, DSNY, Department of Sanitation, industrial Brooklyn,Community Supported Composting (5:00)
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artists, composting, food scraps, Brooklyn is a small town, barge, promoting development, Superfund, conaminants, dredge, oysters, cormorans, Virginia creeper, combined sewer overflows, green jobs, community supporting composting, Cornell Waste Management Institute, Worms Eat My Garbage,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
