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The Heritage Report Introduction (10:04)
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Jack Inslee, Heather Hyman, Heritage Foods USA, Patrick Martins, David Haight, American Farmland Trust, The Heritage Report, Saratoga Springs, national membership organization, started 30 years ago, Peggy Rockefella, from the kitchen table to the congress, farmers, land owners, protecting land, local government, good guy lobbyists, Albany, Washington DC, what is considered to be farmland, urban garden, farm field, orchard land, pasture, livestock, land resources, food supply, a million acres of farmland are developed each year in America, there is a farm developed every three days in New York, three of the most threatened farm regions in the country are here in New York state, Long Island east end, rich soil, productive farms, how many people can we feed?, our seven million acres of farmland can feed 6 million people, it's a difficult farm economy right now, farm economics, you can make more money selling your land than growing crops, rooftop garden, urban gardening, Cornell University, community garden, where will we grow our food in the future, homegrown food supply, Roberta's,Governor Paterson's Proposed Budget Cuts (9:51)
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New York Director, American Farmland Trust, who's taking the farmland?, residential development, he has proposed 130 billion dollar state budget, budget cuts, Farmland Protection Program has had its funding cut in half, farmers markets, Farmers Market Grants have had funding completely eliminated, water, more than half of New Yorkers get their drinking water from an unfiltered water source, upstate New York, investing in food processing infrastructure, from the field to your fork, slaughterhouses, trucking, sales, www.farmland.org/newyork, Union Square, small grants have a broad impact, agriculture development, job loss, health care, Governor Paterson,A Letter To Governer Paterson and A Rally At The Capital on March 15th", (9:16)
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wetlands preserve, you need to invest in our farms!, New Yorkers need access to nutritious food, rally on March 15th at the state capital in Albany, Just Food, buy local, go to www.farmland.org/newyork for more information, transportation, school lunch quality, soup kitchens, institutional food purchasing, public dollars, write your local government, elected officials, Albany, Washington, watershed, letter to Governor Paterson,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Hot Grease Introduction: The Food And Climate Summit (14:24)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Roberta's, Fairway Market, The Food And Climate Summit, NYU, Just Food, Scott Stringer, summit planning, food politics, Copenhagen, The Food Collar Economy, Hot Bread Kitchen, community kitchen incubator, local food workers union, Mark Winston Griffith, food economy, sustainability, access, inclusion, Growing Food In The Big Apple, Jennifer Berg, skill building, policy, tips on talking about animal food, the impact of food on climate change, interactive and educational, twitter room, structural discrimination, diversity of atendees,The Good Food Movement: 2009 Victories (10:50)
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The Good Food Movement, 2009 victories, community garden legitimacy, Michelle Obama, Obama administration, Barack Obama, beekeeping, the city is preparing to lift a ban on beekeeping, the perceived danger is non existent, Brandon Hoy, John Feldman, the face of food stamps, farmers market, WIC, New York is the first state to allow WIC to be spent at farmers markets, green market, the stigma is lessening, EBT,The Hot Five With Stacey West (7:35)
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The Hot Five, fish, cod, herring, grapes, sweet grapes, sour grapes, champagne, noodles, longevity, the longer the noodle the better, grains, southern tradition, coined currency, black eyed peas, Italy, peas, the last Hot Five of 2009, www.twitter.com/staceynwest,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
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