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First Aired - 06/13/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen and Alice spoke with Amy Gavaris of NYRP. Amy spoke about Bette Midler's effort to restore parks and gardens throughout the city, and what NYRP is doing to help beautify the land and educate the community.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Amy Gavaris of NYRP (10:56)
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We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, NYRP, Groundworks Inc, Amy Gavaris, Amy has been on the staff at the NYRP since its founding in 1995, the organization is dedicated to restoring New York City's park, Million Trees New York, an initiative to plant and care for 1 million trees by 2017, Riley-Levin Children's Garden, Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, Swindler Cover Park, New Leaf Restaurant, Amy is also overseeing special restoration projects on behalf of Bette Midler in post Katrina New Orleans, the re emergance of Central Park, what inspired Bette Midler to start this?, she grew up in Hawaii, Rudy Giuliani, Green Gorillas, The Horticultural Society of New York,The Conservancy of Forgotten Places (9:54)
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benefit night, 1999, Green Gorillas, community garden organization, Bette Midler, the definition of a garden used to be loosely defined, NYRP formed a land trust with the city, people organization, the community directs what happens, they also now know the land is protected and they will invest, the restaurant is a building in the park where they started restorations, Fort Tyron Park, Garden at the Cloysters, all the revenue from concessions goes to the general budget, Central Park Conservancy, NYRP is the conservancy of forgotten places,Swindler Cove & Stories from the NYRP (11:20)
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NYRP's highest accomplishment is Swindler Cove park, Sherman Creek, school garden, outdoor enviornmental center, challanges of dealing with open spaces, what's the funkiest thing NYRP has unearthed?, gruesome stuff!, they have found some CSI calibur stuff, a chair at the top of a tree, does Bette get dirty?, she really knows her stuff, she was inspired by Eugene Lang, she gets dirty, outreach programs, this year NYRP is focusing on home owners, what would they do with 15 million dollars?, bring it to other cities,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/15/2009 01:15PM
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On Part Q of The Main Course, Katy is joined by independent book maverick Henry Zook of Brooklyn Book Court & Drew Becher of NYRP.
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The Main Course Part Q Introduction: Vertical Farming & The NYRP (30:19)
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Hearst Ranch, Drew Becher, Executive Director for the New York Restoration Project, founded in 1995 Bette Midler, started with volunteers cleaning up New York City, helped clean up the canyons in LA, Fort Washington, High Bridge Park, community gardens, saved 120 properties, urban farms, parks, in 2006 A Million Trees NYC was launched, NYC 2030 plan, parks department, honey locust, Harlem River master plan, NYRP, Swindler Cove Park, Bloomberg, children's garden, The Manhattan Project, http://www.NYRP.org, green collar jobs, Obama administration, internships, summer programs, one on one help and assistance, job training, urban gardening, The New Leaf restaurant, Roberta's, an acre can feed 50,000 people a year, this can be an amazing model for other cities, farming is one of the biggest polluters in the country, tomato blight, cooking classes, Alice Waters, http://www.nypr.org, recreational opportunities, vertical farming, seasonality has become frivolous,Book Promotion With Rosemary Morse (8:14)
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Roberta's, Rosemary Morse, book promotion, book publicity, without a platform you have no shot at promoting a book, niche marketing, author credentials, media coaches, staying on message during interviews, Patrick Martins, what does it take for a young writer to get a book published?, acquire an agent, write a proposal, most books are sold at the proposal stage with a sample chapter, the inkwell agency, science fiction novels,Henry Zook Of Brooklyn Book Court (26:09)
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Henry Zook, Brooklyn Book Court, http://www.ibnyc.org/, catty teenage girls, Barnes & Noble, consignment, self published authors, Brooklyn, community authors, book tours, local radio, local television, www.bookcourt.org, Brownstone's, Zack Zook, best seller lists, Shelf Awareness, Costco, Sam's Club, big box deals, 40% of all books in the country go to wholesale clubs, eBooks, Amazon, Publisher's Weekly, Greenlight, screening process for authors, sales, internet promotion, facebook, twitter, free marketing tools for authors and bookstores, the author has to do more legwork themselves, self promotion, New York Times book review, Oprah, there are few outlets for book promotion, Independent Book Sellers of New York City, independent authors are approachable, corporate chains, independent book sellers are like a book review,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It Introduction: I FISH NY (15:00)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Melissa Cohen, Darin Alberry, Sea Grand Program, James MacDonald, Sea Grant Fisheries, I FISH NY, programs for schools, kids get a rod bait and an introduction, fish anatomy, aquatic food webs, local species, wetlands, 3rd grade and up, East River has some of the finest fishing in the world, Long Island, exclusively catch and release, out of the classroom teaching, New York Environmental Laws, DEC officers are surprisingly nice people, positive experience for children, tackle, bait, demonstrations, the least interested kid usually catches the biggest fish, clinic for people with disabilities, invasive species eradication, what is an invasive species?, The Northern Snakehead, they are from Asia, they squirm on land, they can breathe out of water, they reproduce several times a year,The Northern Snakehead & Fishing Regulations (15:00)
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flat bottomed boat, Ben and Melissa had to tackle a snake head fish, the fish would knock the top off of the cooler it was put into, electofishing, scoop up with fish, electric pulse into the water to stun fish, what do the children take home from these experiences?, Astoria Housing Community Center, fishing license, what's the point of the recreational license, fresh water fisheries license, the fees go back into the resource, the money goes back into the DEC, recreational anglers, recreational anglers finally having a say, number of anglers, the methodology of science and fishing are much different, New York Restoration Project, NYRP,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
