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First Aired - 07/29/2012 01:00PM
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This marks the end of Straight, No Chaser's first season! Congratulations to our host, Katy Keiffer! Each week, Katy offers insight into the world of food politics and policy, focusing on topics like the cattle industry, The Farm Bill, and urban agriculture. Tune into this episode to hear some highlights from shows thus far, and to learn what Katy has up her sleeve for upcoming episodes. This program has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.com.
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Best-of: Straight, No Chaser (34:26)
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Dr. Dickson Despommiers, food, technology, politics, urban farming, urban agriculture, cattle industry, The Farm Bill, Katy Keiffer, food systems, hunger, nutrition, hydrofracking, BrightFarms, Paul Lightfoot, Timothy Pachirat, Jenn Nelkin, Gotham Greens, nanotechnology, Bill Marler, Michele Simon, Jennifer Cockrall King, Food and the City, Chase Emmons, Ben Flanner, Brooklyn Grange, Anthony Butler, St. John's Bread and Life, Chellie Pingree, Maine, SNAP Benefits, Raoul Baxter, Every 12 Seconds; Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight, Jean Halloran, Consumer's Union,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/29/2012 01:00PM
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This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer talks urban agriculture with Jennifer Cockrall-King, author of "Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution", a tour of urban agricultural centers in Canada, the US, Cuba and Europe. Tune in as they discuss the viability of growing food in cities and highlight some particular cities that are helping to make agriculture sustainable again in an urban setting. Learn how beekeeping and urban chickens were once commonplace and how the recent explosion of homesteading and self sustenance is a throwback to the way things once were. This program was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
"Urban farming is one single activity that can cure a host of other urban problems."
"We haven't invented urban agriculture, we've just re-discovered it."
--author Jennifer Cockrall-King on Straight, No Chaser
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Food and the City (18:53)
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Jennifer Cockrall-King, Food and the City, urban farming, agriculture, cities, Edmonton, Yorkshire, Detroit, gardening, exercise, community gardens, Victory Gardens, land access, sustainability, rooftop farming, modernization, beekeeping, urban chickens, bylaws, fresh produce, cooking at home, whole foods, culinary literacy, culinary education, school gardening programs,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
