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First Aired - 04/03/2011 03:00PM
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This week's focus on We Dig Plants is the indigo plant. Learn more about the plant (and color) and what an important role it's played in our horticultural history. Find out how a young English girl became responsible for the cultivation of indigo and learn what's entailed in the plants trip from field to factory. This episode was sponsored by Tabard Inn.
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We Dig Plants: Indigo (12:42)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, Heritage Radio Network, indigo, Himalayan blue poppy, true blue, the true color blue is very elusive in the plant kingdom, blue jeans were given their color from indigo, slavery on the indigo plantation, state flags, state flowers, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, responsible for the cultivation of indigo, the story of indigo,Indigo: A Color and a Plant (17:59)
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organic, indigo dye plant, grows as a shrub or an herb, Avatar, natural indigo, Indigofera tinctoria, tropical locations, indigo is a color and a plant, indigo has to be produced in a factory, field to factory, fermentation, oxidation, labor disputes, blue dye, indigo as a new crop for new markets, organic movement, ',To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/16/2010 03:30PM
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The subject of this week's show is the business of local horticulture. Greg Keil talks about his wholesale flower business--a family-owned business growing plants and selling them less than 50 miles from Manhattan.
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We Dig Plants Introductoin: Greg Keil (16:14)
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Alice Marcus Kreig, Carmen DeVito, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, Groundworks Inc, bringing the culture to horticulture, gardening, local horticulture, growing plants on a large scale, Greg Keil, Otto Keil Nursery, Long Island, the nursery business is still very local, Huntington, Hick's Nursery, how did the Keil family start?, the family left Germany in the 1930's, Ernie Schneider, cut flowers, Flower Confidential, Otto Keil, land in Long Island was so valuable it was all sold for housing, everyone has a carbon footprint, highlights and floral events, they supply the flowers to the Macy's Flower Show, Otto Hermann Kahn, majority of the Keil plant materials are grown in the North Fork, gardening is an entry level job for immigrants, low cost labor, immigrant bashing, it's the same story of European immigrants,The Nursery Business & Economic Dilemmas (18:31)
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how many plants does he grow in a year?, 1.5 million annuals 60,000 hanging baskets 40,000 poinsettias 20,000 lilies, who buys these?, garden centers, 60% of stock, holiday plants, landscapers, florists, cemeteries, funeral homes, weddings, roses at Costco, suburbanization, the rain last June was terrible, some customers haven't recovered from it, the weather can be a challenge, what are some other challenges, unionization of farm labor, farming profit margins are very low, poinsettias have been commoditzed, they are now disposable, Christmas generations,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/10/2010 03:30PM
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On the debut episode of We Dig Plats, Carmen Devito & Alice Marcus Krieg introduce themselves and give brief histories of the thistle & the fig.
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We Dig Plants Introduction (10:40)
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Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krie, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, Hearst Ranch, gardening, http://www.groundworksgardens.com, Groundworks Inc., horticulture, The New York Botanical Garden, art history, Piet Oudolf, The Large Meadow, Italian heritage, Brooklyn gardening, Merchant Ivory Productions,The Story Of The Fig (10:11)
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fig, exotic, strangely wrapped sculptures, plastic, fig trees, mulberry, ficus, injecting eggs into the flowers, wasps feed on developing fruit, pollination, the fig tree easily reproduces from cuttings, Romulus and Remus, Garden Of Eden, Buddhism, the fig tree comes from western Asia, Mesopotamia, Athens, how did the Fig end up in the New World, market protection, each family in Cuba was allowed one fig tree, New York City area is in zone 7, you can take a cutting of a friends fig tree, you can have fruit in two years, they don't keep long in the refrigerator,The Story Of The Thistle (10:10)
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thistle, cultivation, Scotland, vikings, Butterfly & Thistle, the thistle is misunderstood, the search of honey amidst thorns, it protects itself yet offers nourishment and sweetness, the thistle is stereotyped, the stems grow two feet high, long and narrow leaves, irregular teeth, yellow white or pinkish purple flowers, the entire plant is covered with a thing soft silky down, the thistle was first found in Europe and in Asia, biblical connotations, thorny nastiness found where good soil exists, the thistle was Gods wrath to Adam for eating the apple, weed control, you cannot control the thistle, http://www.supercompuglobal.com/, theme song by Paul Andrew Watling,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
