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First Aired - 11/17/2011 02:00PM
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This week We Dig Plants welcomes esteemed guest Mark Smallwood, who is the Executive Director of the prestigious Rodale Institute. Tune in for an extremely important and pertinent episode on issues from genetics to the 2012 Farm Bill. Did you know that according to the Farming Systems Trial, the longest-running side-by-side U.S. study comparing conventional chemical agriculture with organic methods, organic yields match conventional and outperform them in years of drought and environmental distress? Rodale has helped prove that and it gets better! Learn about Rodale Institute’s collaboration with the Farmer-Veterans Coalition that, through the GI Bill, is helping unemployed veterans learn new skills and position them for jobs in agriculture as well as Mark's vision for an agriculture-supported-community. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.
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What is the Rodale Institute (20:39)
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Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, We Dig Plants, Fairway Market, Bushwick, Roberta's, Groundworks Inc., Rodale Institute, Mark Smallwood, Whole Foods, forager, organic farming, organic, biodynamic gardening, soil health, WWI, farming shift, farming systems trial, Robert Rodale, legume, nitrogen source, corn producers, soy producers, conventional farming, fertilizers, ammonium nitrate, 2010 Census, working with conventional growers, biology, soil, agribusiness, The Farm Bill,An Agriculture Supported Community (33:36)
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ACS, agriculture supported community, food deserts, fruits and vegetables, extension service, GI Bill, employing veterans, job creation, farm business, livestock, grain growing, growing season, Farmer Veterans Coalition, Delaware Valley College, Secretary of Agriculture,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/20/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks to Paula Manolo of Heart Arrow Ranch about biodynamic farming in California and her radical new winter CSA model.
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Paula Introduces Mendocino Organics (13:55)
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Redwood Valley, unstable soil, seasonal changes, irrigation ponds, harsh summer for northeast tomatoes, forrest fires, winter CSA, Eliot Coleman, Four Season Harvest, winter produce vs. summer produce, five-year expansion plan, young farmers movement, Paula Manolo, Heart Arrow Ranch,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/09/2009 04:00PM
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This week's Greenhorn Radio features Annie Novak of the New York Botanical Gardens, who also works on a Greenpoint roof top farm profiled in New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57477/
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Grow It On Your Roof! (11:05)
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Annie Novak, Roof Top Farms, Annie's background, understanding soil, studies in chocolate, children's gardening program, learning to grow on roofs, roofs as growing sites, growing a lot in a little space, Annie has not lost her allegiance to the soil of the Earth, agriculture in US is illogical,Revamping One Roof at a Time (14:20)
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membrane, plastic that roots can't break, drainage, be a better consumer and a better voter, bringing urban agriculture to New York, legislation, shorten distance between people and where their food comes from, www.rooftopfarms.org, volunteerism, Goode Green,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
