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First Aired - 03/14/2010 03:30PM
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Alice & Carmen talk about what to do in your garden during these March days, and Max gives a very special video game review.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: (15:00)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Hearst Ranch, E E Cummings, Heritage Radio Network, cleaning the garden, rust proof galvanized steel, root balls, as the tree grows the height needs to be re anchored, pruning now in March, roses, should be trimmed now just as the leaves are beginning to show signs of swelling, prune the center of the plant, make your cuts at a clean 45 degree angle, remove the broken and dead branches, cut until the inside of the cane is white, removed weak or twiggy branches thinner than a pencil, utility lines, house windows, neighbors fences and windows, shaping trees, tree butchery, raking and cleaning up crusty debris, clean your pruners,Garden Tips & A Special Video Game Review (15:00)
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cool season crops, zone 7, annual seeds sown indoors 5 to 6 weeks before the last frost date, USDA zone map, arrugula, onions, beets, spinach, kale, tomato, peppers, broccoli, eggplants, these seeds will not germinate in cold soil, seed catalogs, photo tropism, constant moisture, good air circulation, plastic bags can cause problems, damping off, fungal disease, discard the seedling, cut back on the water, know your zone, use your common sense, 25 Vegetables Anyone Can Grow, if you can only grow one plant from seed it should be the tomato, Max's video game review, Plants vs Zombies, video, doom mushroom, the pea shooter, sunflowers, computer game, iPod touch or iPhone, Michael Jackson zombie, grandpa zombie, Max gives the game 4.5 stars!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/08/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen and Alice sit down with architect and fellow HRN host Curtis B. Wayne to discuss the process of building a green roof--a process that, as green as it may be, is a bit more complex and work-intensive than some may think. The trio touches on everything you need to know whether its leakage prevention or plant and soil choice.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: A Primer on Green Roofing (17:55)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Heritage Radio Network, Tekserve, www.tekserve.com, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Cooper Union, Harvard Design School, converting your roof to a green roof, green roof is a buzz word now, New Yorkers pay on average $1000 a square foot, New York City Building code requires that roofs have to resist and carry the worst ordinary environmental load, accumulation of snow, buildings are designed to sustain 30 pounds per square foot, dead load is the weight of the structure, live load is anything else, it takes a lot of people to add up to 30 pounds per square foot across the whole roof, we analyze loads based on duration, soil saturated with water is a long term load that leads to long term weakening, soil is an insulator, how do you determine what your roof can hold?, concrete loft buildings would require core samples of the structure, ground penetrating radar, engineered soil, are there ways to get around weight issues?, you could open up the ceiling, you want to make sure you don't introduce opportunity for leaks in the building,Properly Equipping Your Roof with Curtis B. Wayne (17:24)
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load & members!, steel has a bending stress of 22 thousand pounds per square inch, cold rolled sections, tedious carpentry, steel is hard to cut, it's slower to connect with high strength tech screws, building codes and fire codes in relation to roof gardens, permanently enclosed structure adds to your FAR, you can use any material that has been treated to be fireproof, IPE, 20% rule, Diamond Teak, green roofs as opposed to roof gardens, drainage, intensive garden, you need a good root base!, Japanese maples, irrigation, proper soil, root space, clay absorbs water, there isn't good drainage with clay, lightweight potting soil and organic compost, earthworms,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/18/2012 03:30PM
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On this week's episode of Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor has a wealth of guests in the house. Arnetha Singleton, Virginia Cunningham, and Joan Bryant are in the studio talking about their work in the Ingersoll Garden of Eden in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Tune in to hear the ladies talk about about food from the South, from boney fish like porgies, to wild pokeweed greens. Hear their opinions regarding the new interest in gardening and farming amongst young people. Later, Nicole is joined by Rahul Saksena and Jamel Freeman of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, better known as ROC NYC. Tune in to hear about the need for justice for restaurant workers, as well as all workers who supply us with food. You don't want to miss this one, so tune yourself into some Hot Grease! This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.
"She sent me mustard seeds, turnip seeds, carrots, string beans. Many of the gardeners- we can't find the seeds here. Some of the gardeners were asking me if could call my sister and if she would send them some seeds, so she did." -- Arnetha Singleton on getting seeds from North Carolina, Hot Grease
"It's exciting because years ago, you would have never heard of young people picking up any kind of activities like this. If you would have said anything about farming, especially farming on the rooftops and little square places in the community, they would have thought you were crazy" --Joan Bryant on Hot Grease
"We really want this to be a part of sustainability. How can you have your food be sustainable, but the workers who bring it to you are not being invested in." --Jamel Freeman on Hot Grease
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Nicole Down South (4:07)
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Ingersoll Garden of Eden, gardening, New Orleans, Georgia, pralines, Atlanta, Brooklyn Meets Atlanta, BK Morris Kitchen, Southern Pantry, Tasty Morsels, Heritage Foods USA,The Women of Ingersoll Garden of Eden (17:15)
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Arnetha Singleton, Virginia Cunnigham, Joan Bryant, Charleston, porgies, catfish, crab, whiting, tilapia, boney fish, Greenville, Jesse Jackson, Canarsie, pokeweed, foraging, poke salad, Ft. Greene, tinder green, tomatoes, squash, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ingersoll, The New York Times, mustard seeds, turnip seeds, string beans, Fayetteville, collard greens, The Nation of Islam, black gardeners, young farmers, Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Program, the South, community chefs,ROC NYC (12:31)
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Windows on the World, restaurant workers union, people of color, immigrants, women, restaurant industry, activism, CSA, Local Roots CSA, food justice, food worker rights, organic, green, healthy, sustainable, paid sick days initiative, Food Chain Workers Alliance, The Hands That Feed Us, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, ROC, Workers' Petition, Colors Restaurant NYC,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
