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First Aired - 10/03/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne & Sophie continue the State of Cheese Series, moving on to the state of Missouri. Learn more about cheese in the great mid-western state, and hear from .Green Dirt Farm & Baetje Farms. Find out more about American Cheese Month and hear how artisanal cheesemakers are promoting their craft. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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Cutting the Curd: Green Dirt Farm (16:10)
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Cutting the Curd, Heritage Radio Network, Cain Vineyard & Winery, Anne Saxelby, Sophie Slessinger, Missouri, State of Cheese, American Cheese Month, Passport Program, #AMCheeseMonth, Green Dirt Farm, Jaqueline Smith, Sarah Hoffmann, sheeps milk cheese, cheese workshops, running a small business, farmers markets, private workshops, art of cheesemaking, Bad Seed Farmers Market,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/10/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's installment of Greenhorn Radio, Severine takes us to Missouri to visit with Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farms. The two discuss seed saving, bumper crops, and re-purposing the Missouri landscape.
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Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farm (28:59)
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Farm Aide, restoring land back to health, Melanie Crawford, both Melanie's parents were professors at the University of North Dakota, Melanie's seed-saving ventures, sorghum, molasses, sorghum syrup: sorghum is a grass, planted in spring harvested in fall, similar to a corn stalk, strip off all leaves and take plant to a mill press the cane boil the juice down, not a similar flavor to traditional molasses, corn syrup and beet sugar, sorghum sugar could replace some of these other sugars, the layout of Melanie's farm in Missouri, Butterfly Hill Farm, local seed already acclamated to area, raccoons ravaged Melanie's corn crop, medicinal herbs, experimentation with raised beds and biodynamic planting, flowers integrated into every crop, dehydrated peppers okra tomatoes, what is the predominant land use in Melanie's area of Missouri?, cattle, corn, soybeans, sharing bumper crops, www.butterflyhillfarm.blogspot.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/08/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Brooke Silvaggio of Bad Seed Farm in Kansas City, Missouri. The two discuss the burgeoning urban farming scene in Kansas City, Bad Seed's Farmers' Market, and getting recent grads excited about farming.
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Kansas City Urban Farming Scene (9:54)
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Bad Seed, heirloom varieties, Kansas City Missouri, urban farming criminalized in Missouri, urban gardens build community in depleted neighborhoods, suburbia losing its soul?, political ecology of urban gardening scene, people in Midwest have a strong connection to agriculture, over fifty urban farms in Kansas City, suburban expansion in Kansas City, Kansas City transportation system failing to cater to suburban sprawl, higher vacancy rates than Detroit and Cleveland, Brooke Silvaggio, does the presence of an urban farm lower property value?,Brooke's Entree into Farming (9:18)
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photojournalism, Brooke worked on organic farms in exchange for room and board whie traveling abroad, Bad Seed, what Brooke is growing, rotational grazing: chickens and goats, parasite management, radishes, hearty turnips, fruit trees, grapes, currants, Brooke's plot is intensively but intelligently farmed, heavy mulches, farmers economically marginalized by society, wave of rockstar organic farmers, how did Brooke get into urban ag?, no till farming,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
