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First Aired - 04/13/2011 01:00PM
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Ever wonder what happened to the FreshKills landfill on Staten Island? The once largest landfill in the country is undergoing a drastic makeover into a public park that will be 2.5 the size of Central Park! Tune in to learn more about this fascinating project on the Farm Report with Erin Fairbanks. Erin is joined by Freshkills Park Land Use and Outreach Manager Carrie Grassi. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse
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The Farm Report: Freshkills Park (18:18)
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Erin Fairbanks, The Farm Report, Heritage Radio Network, The Barterhouse, Carrie Grassi, Fresh Kills Landfill, site was closed in 2001, 2.5 times the size of central park, land use, the site will be transformed into a public park, leechate, landfill gas, the site was low line marsh land before it became a landfill, Robert Moses project, Relcaim for Productive Use, original idea was to fill the site for 3 years and build housing on one side and an industrial zone on the other side, nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark, 30 year completion plan,The Ins and Outs of the Future Park (15:06)
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nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark, air quality, contaminants, health and human safety, meadows, walking paths, horse trails, incredible views, Staten Island, North Park Phase One, permitting, plant life, reducing maintenance cost, nursery, 800 trees, lecture series, oral history project,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/17/2011 01:00PM
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This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is joined by Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete. Tune in to learn more about this "citizens science project" and how Mara and her colleagues have gathered detailed statistics on all the community farms in New York City. This episode was sponsored by The Museum of Food & Drink .
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The Farm Report Introduction: Farming Concrete (17:38)
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Erin Fairbanks, The Farm Report, Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete, citizen science project, gardening, cartography, how much food are community gardeners growing in NYC?, www.farmingconcrete.org, community development, the internet is not always the best tool, Green Thumb, New York Restoration Project, Just Food, crop inventory, 400 community gardens in New York, ACGA, community garden is any space where more than 1 person is gardening, spaces open to the public, urban farming in Detroit, social justice, illegal farming in vacant lots, Rudy Giuliani tried to auction off gardens, land trusts, land protection, Food Works,Quantifying Food Production (15:12)
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quantifying food production, being classified as a farm, urban agriculture, Mara is part of the Prospect Heights community farm, communal flower cutting bed, herb gardens, garlic, ask your local community garden about what's in season, plant sales, seed swapping, seed saving, crop inventory forms,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/17/2011 01:00PM
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This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is joined by Fred Magdoff, author of the book "Agriculture and Food in Crisis:
Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal". Fred is also an adjunct professor at Cornell and discusses the variety of problems facing our country when it comes to food security. Find out why there is such a price squeeze on crops these days and how Wall Mart manages to sell 20% of the food in this country! This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. For more information visit www.surryfarms.com
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The Farm Report Introduction: Fred Magdoff (14:03)
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Erin Fairbanks, The Farm Report, Heritage Radio Network, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal, global perspective on our food system, soil fertility, manures, fertilizers, improving soil, organic matter, promoting soil health, agriculture in higher education, Cornell University, land grant institutions, CSA's, Community Supported Agriculture, the US has had a cheap food policy,Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal (19:14)
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when food prices double you run out of money quickly, Wall Mart is by large the largest grocery seller in the US, they sell 20% of all food sold in this country, Russia has become a huge exporter of wheat, floods in Pakistan, weather anomalies, this has put a squeeze on prices, corn is up to $7 a bushel, poor people don't vote in the same percentages as the wealthy people in this country, NYC Coalition Against Hunger, food insecurity in New York, get Freds book at www.monthlyreview.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
