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First Aired - 02/07/2013 01:00PM
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Seal the deal with Catskills Provisions! Tune into the Farm Report as Erin Fairbanks sits down with Proprietor, Beekeeper and Forager at Catskill Provisions, Claire Marin. Located in a small corner of the Northwest Catskill Mountains, Catskill Provisions specializes in creating raw, all-natural handmade food products while subscribing to the philosophy that a thriving society makes use of the closest resources around it. Tune in to learn more about their local honey, maple syrup, chocolate truffles and brand new line of pancake mix made with Cayuga flour; all part of their Valentine's Day themed "Seal the Deal" package! This program was sponsored by Rolling Press.
"It's not just selling something its creativing relationships with people you do business with. business and humanity can go hand in hand - they really can!" [2:00]
--Claire Marin of Catskill Provisions on The Farm Report
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Happy Bees (23:56)
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Catskill Provisions, Claire Marin, New York State, Vermont, hops, blight, beekeeping, honey, maple syrup, pancake mix, wheat, Cayuga flour, dark chocolate, truffles, food packaging, farming, seasonality, Cayuga,New York Eat Local Farm Day (16:38)
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retail, Eataly, New York Eat Local Farm Day, seafood, Rob Williams, Seatuck Fish Company, flounder, Liz Carollo, Greenmarket, traceability, produce, meat, Community Supporter Fisheries, small fishing businesses, scallops, Fat Tuesday, gumbo, jambalaya, honey, apple,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/16/2009 01:00PM
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Mark and guest host Katie speak with John Schwally about FDR's secret air-based tomfoolery, Michael Hurwitz & Meg McGrath stop by to educate us about the tomato blight, Alyssa Maresca talks NYC real estate, and Matt Hegarty horses around!
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John Schwally Talks About FDR's Secret Air Force (14:36)
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Cairo, embassy, air field, Tom Colbert, Ari G Davies, civil aviation, Andy Dawson, JKP Airport, documentary, filmmaking, Pan American World Airways, Africa, army, summer of 1940, Europe, French colonies in Africa were taken over by Germany, North Africa, World War II, US Military Bases in Latin America and South America, plane technology, Brazil, Mexico, Pan Am was running in September of 1941, Air Transport Command, General Arnold, Cornell University, http://www.jfsfilms.com, David Hartman, FDR's Secret Air force, Air & Space Museum, discretionary fund to FDR paid for this air force, Caribbean islands,Michael Hurwitz & Meg McGrath discuss the Tomato Blight (6:28)
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Michael Hurwitz, Meg McGrath, blight, organic farmers are struggling, green market, fungal like organism causes blight, normally a potato disease, gardeners, farmers, blight is a rare disease, this is the same pathogen as the Irish Potato Famine, Cornell, photo blog, this pathogen cannot survive on dead plant tissue, starting the plant from seed prevents the rapid spread of a pathogen, starting a plant from seed vs. a big box store plant,Tomato Blight: Causes & Effects (14:35)
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a disease requires a host, a pathogen, and the right environment, rain has proven to be favorable for late blight, Michelle Obama, starting plants from seed has less risk, you have to grow it to sell it, local agriculture, incinerating plants, proper composting, Long Island, late blight is a great learning experience, reality of agriculture, Home Depot, industrial production for retail sale, know your source, bury your moldy spuds, blight produces large spots on the leaves stems and fruits, greenmarket is an independent non-profit, Poughkeepsie, compost, tuber, flooding, drought, spores, tomatoes, sustainability,Reality Estate: Rentals in Roosevelt Island with Alyssa Maresca (11:51)
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rental market, NYC, In Focus, real estate, smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, farms, insane asylum, new developments, repurposing land, F Train and Air Tram to the island, East River, the island is part of Manhattan, many diplomats live there, high rises, rehab hospital, Long Island City, Astoria, a one bedroom costs about $1500 to $2500, rent stabilization, landlords,Horse Racing with Matt Hegarty (14:45)
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horses, Saratoga, derby, jockeys, Belmont, East Coast center of horse racing, Del Mar, Rachael Alexander, horse racing, triple crown, racing styles, jockeying is an art, Jerry Bailey, the horses enjoy running, thoroughbred racing, horses top out at 37 MPH, Kentucky, Bill Shoemaker, Calvin Burrell, slaughterhouses, finding homes for unwanted horses, federal legislation to ban slaughter, pleasure horses, humane slaughtering, animal shelters, better training methods, daily racing forum, aqueduct, Matt Hegarty,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/24/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen talk about Chestnuts: the botany and beauty of peasant food. They talk to Sandra L. Anagnostakis, an expert on chestnut blight disease since 1968 and a world-renowned plant pathologist. Together they discuss disease-resistant hybrids and their pros and cons, why you need two trees to get fruit, how China became the biggest producer of chestnuts, and why the chestnut is the only nut to offer Vitamin C. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed beef from the California coast.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Chestnuts! (19:39)
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Heritage Radio Network, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, We Dig Plants, chestnuts, rich in fiber and protein, Sandra Anagnostakis, Chestnut Blight Disease, chestnuts are a temporary but complete substitution for cereal in Europe, China is the biggest producer of chestnuts, history of chetnuts, chestnut flour, wooden bread, stew thickener, polenta, roasted chestnuts, the only nut to provide Vitamin C!, chestnuts are technically fruits, chestnut peeling, people pay more for the larger nuts, flavor trade offs, Chestnut growers of America, planting chestnut trees,Chestnuts: Botany, Beauty and Peasant Food (11:56)
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Vic Chesnutt, ink disease, root diseases, canker disease, doesn't kill root systems, trees continue to sprout, hybrid chestnuts, resistant to serious diseases, breeding program, USDA, funding, European Japanese hybrid chestnuts, commercial orchards in Italy and France grow the Japanese European hybrids so they have resistance to diseases, people keep importing pests to the US by skipping plant quarantine, you need two trees to produce fruit, mail order sources, chestnut trees are beautiful, they provide great shade,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
