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First Aired - 10/11/2010 01:00PM
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This week, Cathy sits down with Wen-jay Ying, the CSA coordinator for the iconic Red Jacket Orchards. Fun and laughter ensue as they talk about macoun apples, cooking with quinces, and the Healthy Fresh Bodegas Initiative. This episode was brought to you by Edwards of Surry, Virginia.
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Let's Eat In Introduction - It's A Magical Process (15:03)
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early fall, CSA coordinator at Red Jacket Orchards, one of the largest selections of fruit at local food events, the first stand-alone fruit share CSA, community supported agriculture, connect to your fruit farmer, visiting the farm, camping in the apricot orchards, a magical visit from an albino deer, mystical animals of the North East, macoun apples, crisp and tart, severe fruit allergies, chemical pesticides on supermarket apples, Unicorns, discovering and cultivating heirloom varieties, broadening the plum spectrum, elephant hearts, 26 varieties of plums, plums in every color of the rainbow, Katie's quince cookies, kumquat, donut peaches, Wen-jay Ying, Cathy Erway,Crossing The Food Desert (15:20)
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Wen-jay Ying from Red Jacket Orchards, you have to cook quinces, tough and fibrous, cut and salted quinces in Taiwan, slices of quinces on sugar cookies, so many possibilities for quinces, a huge fan of the donut peaches, so many vibrant plums, apples and pears for fall, The Healthy Fresh Bodegas Initiative, GrowNYC, Department of Health, distributing organic to bodegas in Bed-Stuy, bringing fresh food into food deserts, fund raising for refrigerators, produce education for bodega owners, no-sugar added juices, fake juice, inconvenient food, competing with a bag of chips, October 28th fundraiser at Brooklyn Kitchen, Hungry Filmmakers, everybody loves apples, apple crunch, apples wash your teeth, dangers of popcorn, dentists' worst nightmare, Wen-jay's super awesome date meal, duck, The Feast Conference, Good.com, Peking duck, duck taco, ducko, ducks are the easiest things to cook, date night,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/18/2009 02:15PM
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On the premiere episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides teaches us about the glacier that would have eaten New York City and the sex life of barnacles.
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The Naturalist Introduction & Show Summary (7:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, science, industrial arts, teaching, environmental organizations, The Phoenix, coastal ecology, Long Island Sound, Everglades National Park, interpretive park ranger, canoe trips, The Ten Thousands Islands, mangroves, docent, Bernie's areas of expertise are ocean life, butterflies, and earth & space, Central Park, greensward guide, future show topics, The Museum of Natural History, greensward means an open green space in a forest, biography, mosquitoes,Giant Glacier Eats New York! (10:14)
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glacier, New York Times, 12,000 years ago the climate was much colder and we were in an ice age, if New York City existed, it would have been devoured by glaciers, laurentide glacier, glaciers slowly advance and retreat, the leading edge was 1,000 feet thick, Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge, interglacial epic, the earth is still warming up from the last ice age, this is what we mean by global warming, fossil fuels, co2, without humans the next ice age would be 100,000 years from now, there's nothing we can do to prevent ice ages, we don't know why earth goes through these cycles, theories, orbit, the earth's axis is tilted 23 1/2 degrees, the earth's axis wobbles like a top, heat energy, the sun, why was there an ice age?, Milutin Milankovitch, building dimensions in New York City, Chrysler Building, the earth is naturally warming up, but humans are speeding up the process, changes in the tilt of the earth's axis,Glacier Add-On (6:36)
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the glacier stopped advancing at New York City, Bushwick, Brooklyn, everything north of Brooklyn to the North Pole was ice covered, the ice front advanced along the Northern hemisphere, ice sheet, glacial evidence, Eastern Parkway, Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush, Staten Island, Queens, Highland Park, terminal moraine, glacial hills, hills, Long Island, north shore is hilly, south shore is not hilly, sands from the glacier were carried south and formed Flatbush down to Jamaica Bay, beach formations, fresh water, New York City shoreline used to be 100 miles further south, Ronkankama moraine, Inwood park, Marcus Garvey Park,The Sex Life of the Barnacle: Size Does Matter! (10:34)
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barnacle, sex life in the animal kingdom, barnacles look like little white dots, they are volcano shaped, inside the cone is a tiny animal like a crab, they are related to shrimps and blue craw crabs, the shell of a barnacle is made by the animal, calcium carbonate, young barnacles are free swimming critters, plankton are at the mercy of the waters, young barnacle is a millimeter in size, eventually, it let's itself sink to the bottom of the water and finds a hard surface, most settle on rocks, they produce an amazing glue that sets underwater, dentists, the barnacle legs point upward out of the cone, operculum, air would dry them out and kill them, they capture plankton with their legs, dinoflagellates, barnacles have the capability of gender changing, the male has a penis that is long enough to reach over into the next barnacle, the penis is longer than its body, females give off pheromones, reproduction, the male extends its penis all around until it finds a female, the barnacle has the biggest penis per body size in the entire animal kingdom, penis envy, sometimes they attach to whales, barnacles cannot move around, diatoms,The Bulletin Board: Events In New York City (4:44)
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estuaries, 2009 New York State Beach Cleanup, Littoral Society, 1-800-449-0790, http://www.alsnyc.org/, Jamaica Bay Sunset Cruise, September 26th, 3 hour narrated tour, shore birds, shoreline, Don Reape, 718-318-9344, tell him Bernie sent you!, has been going on for 24 years,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
