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Welcome to Edible Communities with Tracy Ryder and Carole Toplian (14:07)
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Edible Communities, Launched Spring 2001, independent publications, local staff, 15 million readership, Passalong rate estimated at 3 people per issue, Consistency as formula for success, www.EdibleCommunites.com, Farmers, retailers, fisherman, ranchers, readers, recipes, community, photography, Publications throughout the US and Canada, Network of 55 regional food magazines, quality content,New Media and Social Networking (7:27)
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1 million web visitors a month, each publication as a resource for travelers and locals, no shared content between publications, writers, Edible Nation column and blog links all publications, twitter, facebook, phenomenon,Book Talk (8:04)
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book divided by regions and season, local food heroes, Release March 2010, 75 recipes from across the US, Martha's Vineyard, Scallops have eyes, recipes, bound, print, travel, photography, backroads, oxen, John Wiley Sons Publications,Elliot Coleman and Year Round Growing (7:58)
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New Book: The Winter Harvest Handbook, Four Seasons Harvest, year round growing, temperate zones, latitude location connect continents, market farmers in Europe, watering patterns, recyclable hydration, water conservation, dedication, stubbornness, Winter, greenhouse, Harbor side Maine,Elliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook (7:32)
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Winter planting and eating, leafy greens, prefer cool moist climate, Asian greens, Swiss Chard, California weed known as Miner's lettuce, French Winter Corn Salad, Spinach is best winter green, vegetables, Arugula, scallions, low cost operation, www.FourSeasonFarm.com, high potential,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
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)








