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First Aired - 03/28/2013 11:00AM
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Hear from Grace Bonney's mentor and friend, Rena Tom, on this week's installment of After the Jump. Rena is a California native who has been involved in everything from consulting, to jewelry design, to founding the collaboration-minded Makeshift Society. Tune into this episode to hear Rena talk about her upbringing, and how her family pushed her to start her own business. Learn about Rena's time in Park Slope, and her experiences owning the jewelry design store, Rare Device. How do small businesses and creative circles differ in San Francisco and Brooklyn? Also in the studio is architect Bryan Boyer. Listen in to hear Rena and Bryan talk about her newest venture, Makeshift Society, and how it has grown and expanded to the East Coast. This program has been sponsored by Fairway Market.
"It's been a lot of fun dreaming and trying to bring the vision of Makeshift to more people." [18:10]
-- Rena Tom on After the Jump
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California to New York and Back (16:02)
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Rena Tom, jewelry design, Makeshift, consultant, Sacramento, California, entrepreneurship, owning a business, drapery, roller coaster, mechanical engineering, UC Santa Barbara, competition, Brooklyn, graduate school, Rare Device, etsy, Park Slope, designer, web design, the Internet, New York City, fine art, gallery, brick and mortar, social media,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/10/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's installment of Greenhorn Radio, Severine takes us to Missouri to visit with Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farms. The two discuss seed saving, bumper crops, and re-purposing the Missouri landscape.
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Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farm (28:59)
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Farm Aide, restoring land back to health, Melanie Crawford, both Melanie's parents were professors at the University of North Dakota, Melanie's seed-saving ventures, sorghum, molasses, sorghum syrup: sorghum is a grass, planted in spring harvested in fall, similar to a corn stalk, strip off all leaves and take plant to a mill press the cane boil the juice down, not a similar flavor to traditional molasses, corn syrup and beet sugar, sorghum sugar could replace some of these other sugars, the layout of Melanie's farm in Missouri, Butterfly Hill Farm, local seed already acclamated to area, raccoons ravaged Melanie's corn crop, medicinal herbs, experimentation with raised beds and biodynamic planting, flowers integrated into every crop, dehydrated peppers okra tomatoes, what is the predominant land use in Melanie's area of Missouri?, cattle, corn, soybeans, sharing bumper crops, www.butterflyhillfarm.blogspot.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2009 04:15PM
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On this episode of The Caffeine Stream, Nicole Slaven welcomes back Anne Nylander of Tamp Tamp. They brew some fresh coffee using a French press and then the Aeropress.
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Caffeine Stream Introduction: Home Brewing (9:13)
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Nicole Slaven, Tamp Tamp, Anne Nylander, Neil Oney, home brewing, French press, Providence Rhode Island, brewing methods, 17 ounces of water, www.jimseven.com, keeping doses consistent, Chemex, Chemex takes 30 seconds less than a French press, corning kettle, darker roasts, http://www.erostratusmusic.com/, Erostratus,The Aeropress (9:18)
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paper filter, clean cup, team competition event, Tamp Tamp, world barista championship, Norway, not the same amount of pressure as an automated pump, close the process of making espresso, next class at Tamp Tamp is November 30th, Tamp Camp, December 5th and 6th, anne@tamptamp.com, Aeropress is available at sports stores, Aeropress,Freshness, Beans & Equipment (9:29)
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Frisbee, Aerobie, freshness is important above all else with coffee, coffee is like bread, as it ages it stales, hydroscopic, intelligentsia, grinders, if you're not happy with your first cup of coffee make it again, cafe experimentation, scales, coffee can act as baking soda and absorb other flavors, ideal water temperature is between 198 and 210 degrees Fahrenheit,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
