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First Aired - 02/01/2012 01:00PM
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This week the Farm Report is abuzz with bees and honey. Joining host Erin Fairbanks is bee lover and owner of Catskill Provisions, Claire Marin, who imparts us with her encyclopedic knowledge of these creatures from mating habits, to how to start your own apiary, to why raw honey is best. Later on Adam Diehl, a maple syrup farmer who supplies Catskill Provisions, with his syrup tells us all about how to tap a maple, especially in this crazy February weather. Finally, tune in for a very special extended edition segment with Laura Ten Eyck of the American Farmland Trust who fills us in on the No Farms, No Food rally coming up in Albany and how you can do your part to fight for a more transparent food system. This episode is sponsored by White Oak Pastures
"Always buy raw honey that hasn't been heated above 93 degrees . . it retains all the good stuff that way, all the antibiotic properties and antioxidants."
"Bees are amazing . . . they can teach us about efficiency, democracy . .we can learn a lot from them."
--Claire Marin on The Farm Report
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The Farm Report: Catskill Provision (20:12)
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First Aired - 02/10/2010 05:00PM
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What's happening to our farmland in NY? New York Director of The American Farmland Trust David Haight tells us on today's Heritage Report.
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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,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/02/2013 12:00PM
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Did you know that gangsters controlled nearly all of the food distribution in Depression-era New York City? This week on A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio invites Andy Coe to talk about racketeering in New York City food history. Learn how something as innocent as an egg cream was the cause of major crime. Find out what products were controlled by specific gangsters, and how the food rackets weren't eliminated from the Big Apple until the days of Giuliani! Learn about Murder Inc., and how competition was dealt with in the 1940s. Calling all fans of The Godfather: you don't want to miss this installment of A Taste of the Past! This program has been sponsored by The Heritage Meat Shop. Music has been provided by SNOWMINE.
"Today we have supermarkets and bodegas, and the food appears on the shelves and we don't really know where it comes from... Back then, food distribution was much more spread out." [7:45]
-- Andy Coe on A Taste of the Past
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The Seltzer Gangsters (21:07)
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Chicago, Fiorello La Guardia, Italian Artichoke racket, artichokes, the docks, bananas, Albany, Thomas Dewey, flowers, fish, Hunts Point, ice cream, dairy, artisan, bread, Serious Eats, Good Bread,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
