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First Aired - 05/03/2009 11:00AM
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Heritage talks with Larry Sorell, of Lazy S Farms in Kansas, and Brenda Smith of Clayton's in Michigan City, Indiana.
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First Aired - 06/12/2009 04:00PM
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Lorenzo speaks with renowned poultry farmer Frank Reese of The Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch about Heritage breed chickens and issues of biodiversity. Also on the program, Kevin Lunny of Lunny Ranch in Marin County.
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Frank Reese on Heritage Breed Chickens (10:56)
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fourth generation poultry farmer, working against the one genetic line found in supermarkets, preserve biodiversity in food supply, variety, meat breeds, Frank raises: Barred Rocks, New Hampshires, Cornish, Jersey Giant, selective breeding versus genetic engineering, different breeds for different uses, loss of breeds due to greed and big business,Frank Reese on Selective Breeding (11:54)
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American Poultry Association, APA, founded in 1874, standards, well-being of animals, mate naturally, survive weather extremes, best market result for meat when bred to APA standards, chicken, poultry industry, oldest agriculture organization in America, purebred, improving the quality of poultry in America, infrastructure, huge expense to reverse the deterioration that's been done to the poultry industry,Kevin Lunny on Grassfed Beef (6:21)
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grassfed certification, strict guidelines and inspections, no grain, health benefits, marine ecosystem and grass, taste, flavor of the beef and terroir,Kevin Lunny and the Cattle on Lunny Ranch (14:25)
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beef cuts, heritable traits, fat, marbling, meat quality, grass-fed and finished, eating habits, ultrasound technologies, seven dollars per head of cattle, determines best heifers to breed for most desirable finished product, feed efficiency, local processing is a limit, marketing is a challenge, level playing field for small family farms to compete and recover,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/15/2011 02:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Kreig delve into ethno-botany with Dr. Ina Vandebroek, Ethnomedical Research Specialist at the Institute of Economic Botany at New York Botanical Garden. They discuss the role plants play in medicine and how in other cultures herbal remedies and traditional healing methods are trusted more than conventional health care. Learn more more about ethnobotany, immigrant health and more on a very informative episode of We Dig Plants. This episode was sponsored by Barterhouse Wines.
"In a 2005 study on Dominican ethnomedicine that was financed by the National Institute of Health we discovered that 80% of the people tested believed that there were health conditions that a medical doctor does not understand and cannot cure and that's why they are using herbal remedies."
"The majority of the population in the Dominican Republic believes that The Evil Eye exists."
-- Dr. Ina Vandebroek on Ethnomedical Research Specialist at the Institute of Economic Botany at New York Botanical Garden on We Dig Plants
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We Dig Plants: Ethnobotany (17:59)
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,, We, Dig, Plants, Carmen, DeVito, Alice, Marcus, Kreig, plant, potential, ethobotany, insitute, of, Economic, Botany, New, York, Botanical, Garden, immigrant, health, care, Dr., Ina, Vandebroek, kissing, bug, Trypanosoma, cruzi, conservation, biodiversity, taxonomy, identifying, plants, sustainable, pest, control,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
