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First Aired - 03/01/2012 01:00PM
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This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks with Anthony Butler of St. John's Bread and Life, an emergency food provider based out of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Tune in to hear Erin and Anthony discuss the importance of local and healthy food providers for poor and hungry populations, the problems with the food stamp program in New York City, and food education in the Bed Stuy community. Also, Anthony tells about how to work with donated food, whether it's squash or lobster. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"Probably the best and most robust group that is able to respond to the issues of hunger is the food community, particularly in Brooklyn. We're dramatically increasing our procurement from purveyors of New York State products, both farmers and value -added purveyors."
"If you receive food stamps as an individual, you have to live on four dollars and fifty cents a day. It grows for a family, it's about twelve dollars a day. It's a significant problem. There's been a 25% increase in the number of folks with four-year degrees who are [finding] themselves in food pantries and soup kitchens."
-- Anthony Butler on The Farm Report
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Emergency Food & Food Stamps (16:49)
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St. John's Bread and Life, Anthony Butler, hunger, poverty, Brooklyn, Queens, Bed Stuy, soup kitchen, housing issues, substance abuse, food drives, nutritional content, childhood obesity, purveyors, Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program, government, non-profit, food stamps, disability,Lobster Donations & Farmers' Markets (12:52)
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food pantry, technological acclimation, hypertension, low sodium, low fat, nutrition, New York state farms, cooking classes, recipes, produce, lobster, City Harvest, squash, volunteering, www.breadandlife.org, food deserts, The Farm Bill, farmer's markets, No Food, No Farms,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/21/2009 03:30PM
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On the third episode of Hot Grease: Nicole welcomes Yonette Fleming to the studio to discuss the Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Bed-Stuy. Also, don't miss this week's Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books.
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Yonette Fleming and the Hattie Carthan Community Garden (8:15)
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access to fresh food, District 36, Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant, definition of a food desert, food desert=limited or no access to fresh food, 1/3 of residents live in poverty, intersection between low rates of consumption of healthy foods and high disease rates, Michelle Obama and farmers' market by The White House, Hattie Carthan Community Garden has been operating since 1991, how do we define health?, Shirley Chislom, Chislom 72, Shola Lynch, New York City election 2009,Community-Building Farming Ventures (12:45)
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Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, the story behind the garden's inception, Hattie Carthan was an activist and environmentalist, Carthan had radical ideas for change in Bed-Stuy, home to fifty fruit-bearing trees, very active community garden, health beyond machines and drugs, food beyond corn flakes and corned beef, Yonette's other community-building ventures, Yonette: the planet is my mandate, Yonette has tended to herb garden at Hattie Carthan Garden for six years, Hattie Carthan Farmers' Market-now housed on a piece of land that was once an abandoned lot, Carthan Garden now considered a farm, markets run through November 7th., harvest chard collard greens sweet peppers sweet potatoes etc, this and every Saturday until November 7th bring foodstamps coupons and senior citizens' coupons and eat locally grown foods, Harvest Drum and Movement Circle, October 10th 11AM dedication and unveiling of mural, Hattie Carthan Garden measures roughly 2 acres, fruit bearing trees, greenguerillas.org, environmental groups,The Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books (9:05)
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five things on fire in the food movement, independant bookstores are a dying breed, Crystal's Hot Five reads, Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, The Sneaky Chef, how to pack kids meals with nutritious ingredients, Food and Wine 2009 Cookbook, www.brownstonebooks.com, info@brownstonebooks.com, Brownstone Books 409 Lewis Avenue Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry, The Moosewood Cookbook, Molly Katzen, Lucinda Scala Quinn,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/17/2013 04:00PM
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Lauren Melodia aims to link New York dairy farmers and high incarceration rates with her organization, Milk Not Jails. This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby sits down with Lauren, founder and co-organizer, to talk about the prison system in New York, and how it connects the urban with the rural. How do prisons bolster New York's rural economy? Find out how government support for dairy farms as opposed to prisons creates a sustainable economy. Learn how a lack of processing and bottling plants limits production for small dairy farmers. Find out what Milk Not Jails aims to do to support local dairy farmers and help reform the prison system simultaneously. This program has been sponsored by White Oak Pastures. Thanks to Pamela Royal for today's musical interlude.
"The processing world has shut its doors to farmers who want to be entrepreneurial in their industries." [25:15] -- Lauren Melodia on Cutting the Curd
"The processing world has shut its doors to farmers who want to be entrepreneurial in their industries." [25:15] -- Lauren Melodia on Cutting the Curd
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Urban, Meet Rural (19:29)
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Milk Not Jails, Lauren Melodia, social justice, criminal justice, fresh produce, Bed Stuy, prison, East New York, rural, CSA, New Paltz, the prison industry, economy, agriculture, prison development, Rockefeller drug laws, Stop and Frisk, globalization, outsourcing, Upstate New York, Eerie Canal, Interstate highways, marijuana, local, prison farms, milk, the dairy industry, unemployment, dairy farms, Lorraine Lewandrowski, yogurt, milk prices, Milk Thistle Farm,Processing Dairy (14:37)
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politicians, grassroots, local dairy farms, incarceration, Farmland Protection, raw milk products, raw fresh cheese, Dean Foods, milk bottling plants, small business, infrastructure, industrial food products, education, criminal justice reform, alternative economy, dairy share, cream cheese,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
