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First Aired - 03/20/2012 01:00PM
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Ben is a full-time and part-time organic farmer. By day he works as the Organic Farm Manager for the University of Kentucky's Organic Farming Research and Education Farm, a job he has held for the previous five years. The university farm is home to a 80-member CSA, grant-funded research, and extension and education efforts relating to organic vegetable production in Kentucky. By night he operates his own (leased) farm in Fayette County, Kentucky where he grows organic sweet potatoes, cabbage, winter squash, and watermelons on 10 acres.
"What's been so great about having the farm is because it has created a visual component to the organic agriculture program [at the University of Kentucky]."
"I've found this movement of young farmers is very inclusive. There's a lot of passion."
-- Ben Abell on Greenhorn Radio
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Greenhorn Radio: Ben Abell (27:22)
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Lexington, Kentucky, Federal tobacco buyout, agriculture economy, agricultural diversification, tobacco, subsidies, the bounty program, colonial agriculture production, sustainable agriculture, model farm, community supported agriculture, young farmers, budgeting, organic agriculture, Community Farm Alliance, agricultural legacy initiative, grassroots movement, agricultural legislation,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/07/2009 04:00PM
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Severine interviews Kevin Skvorak of Regeneration CSA in High Falls, NY. Regeneration CSA is a community supported farm growing with permaculture based, no-till systems that use no chemicals and regenerate our soils.
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Kevin Introduces Regenerative Farming (2:21)
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Community Supported Agriculture, Kevin Skvorak, Sarah Williford, small farms, regenerative farming, Sustainability,Beyond Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Future (2:59)
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solutions, new directions, alternatives, sustainability: good enough,From Activism to Mainstream (4:21)
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the new activism, mainstream values, local, organic, eating local and privileged, no-till farming, Ruth Stout, better life/smaller footprint, Transition Movement, future without fossil fuels,Reclaiming, Restoring, Retrofitting America (9:28)
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Northeast Organic Farmers' Association, stakeholders in farms, no agricultural viability, need more farmers per capita, Hudson Valley Community and Agricultural Land Trust, equity stakes for new farmers, retirement, land affordability, beyond consumer-commodity vision, farming as mutually supportive,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/28/2012 05:00PM
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This week on the business of The Business, Phil Colicchio sits down with Matt Sytsema, partner/chef at Griggstown Quail Farm and Market - a New Jersey producer of game birds. In its early days, the Griggstown Quail Farm distributed to a few choice restaurants in the New York City area. Today, their prime distributor is D’Artagnan Inc., located in Newark, N.J. Hear how the business has evolved over 40 years and what role Matt has played in its development. From his early days on the farm with his family to his current life as a chef, manager, visionary and master of the chicken pot pie. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.
"Farming is in my blood. I grew up on a farm, my dad and grandfather were farmers...it's part of who I am." [8:13]
"We make everything from scratch...we don't do anything the easy way. So once we started ramping up production I had to start hiring people." 17:00
--Matt Sytsema of Griggstown Quail Farm and Market on the business of The Business
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