This week Jack Inslee talks with Ben Flanner about this week's update from the Brooklyn Grange Rooftop farm. Ben's getting ready for their kale and swiss chard to sprout, and talks about digging growing beds at their Northern Blvd. farm in Queens. Get ready because his flock of chickens is due to arrive and he welcomes everyone to come by and say hello!

Today on The Morning After, Jessie Kiefer is joined by guest co-host Elizabeth Chubbuck of Murray's Cheese, and they're talking with Master Captain Kelli Farwell of the Water Table. Tune in to hear the show introduced with a dramatic 'Front of House' segment involving dislocated hips and restaurant bathrooms. Later, Kelli talks about her restaurant experience, and why she decided to get in touch with her seafaring New England roots with her floating tavern, the Water Table. Learn about the boat that houses the Water Table, and its history as a touring cruise ship on Lake Michigan. How does the Water Table fit into NYC's current health code? To wrap up the show, Elizabeth Chubbuck redecorates Chardonnay's! This program has been brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

"I've been on dinner cruises that look like a big party, and I don't anticipate that [for the Water Table]." [20:30]

"When you spend fifteen years watching people eat, you get a good idea of what they want." [27:45]

-- Kelli Farwell on The Morning After

This week The Farm Report is pleased to welcome Jesse LaFlamme, head of Pete And Gerry's Organic Eggs, the first Certified Humane egg farm in the country. Pete and Gerry’s is proving commercial farming and organic, humane, sustainable farming are not mutually exclusive. Pete and Gerry’s has realized consistent growth without becoming a factory farm. Jesse recruits small family farms as egg producers, keeping family farmers in business and protecting valuable open space. He combines state-of-the-art husbandry and farming technology with streamlined and efficient processing to make Pete and Gerry’s cost competitive with much larger operations. Those efficiencies also allow him to share those margins with his producers. Jesse is one of the new breed of 21st Century farmers who understands that the world needs commercial farms to feed its inhabitants, but needs to do it without degrading the environment and exploiting livestock. This episode is sponsored The Barterhouse.

"[Farmers] just want to be farmers, it sounds basic, but in today's big agriculture that is hard to do." -Jesse LaFlamme, head of Pete & Gerry's Organic Eggs on The Farm Report