The Main Course
Re-run 12 - 12:45pm EST
First Aired - 06/27/2011 01:00PM
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This week on the Naturalist welcomes the head garderner of Roberta's Restaurant Melissa Metrick to talk about small-scale gardening and explain more about the gardens in the backyard and on the roof of the radio station that help provide the restaurant with essential ingredients for their delicious food. Later on, Bernie is joined by his partner, Janet, who reveals how she got her own little garden in Central Park. This episode if sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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Episode 78 - Melissa Metrick (17:09)
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The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Bernie Wides, Janet David, Melissa Metrick, Roberta's Restaurant, gardening, Americorps, pesticide free, organic fertilizer, sustainable gardening, hoop houses, baby greens, bitter dandelion greens, dill, honey, saltwort, sea pickle, Mirarchi Carlo, Eagle Street farm,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/08/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen and Alice sit down with architect and fellow HRN host Curtis B. Wayne to discuss the process of building a green roof--a process that, as green as it may be, is a bit more complex and work-intensive than some may think. The trio touches on everything you need to know whether its leakage prevention or plant and soil choice.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: A Primer on Green Roofing (17:55)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Heritage Radio Network, Tekserve, www.tekserve.com, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Cooper Union, Harvard Design School, converting your roof to a green roof, green roof is a buzz word now, New Yorkers pay on average $1000 a square foot, New York City Building code requires that roofs have to resist and carry the worst ordinary environmental load, accumulation of snow, buildings are designed to sustain 30 pounds per square foot, dead load is the weight of the structure, live load is anything else, it takes a lot of people to add up to 30 pounds per square foot across the whole roof, we analyze loads based on duration, soil saturated with water is a long term load that leads to long term weakening, soil is an insulator, how do you determine what your roof can hold?, concrete loft buildings would require core samples of the structure, ground penetrating radar, engineered soil, are there ways to get around weight issues?, you could open up the ceiling, you want to make sure you don't introduce opportunity for leaks in the building,Properly Equipping Your Roof with Curtis B. Wayne (17:24)
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load & members!, steel has a bending stress of 22 thousand pounds per square inch, cold rolled sections, tedious carpentry, steel is hard to cut, it's slower to connect with high strength tech screws, building codes and fire codes in relation to roof gardens, permanently enclosed structure adds to your FAR, you can use any material that has been treated to be fireproof, IPE, 20% rule, Diamond Teak, green roofs as opposed to roof gardens, drainage, intensive garden, you need a good root base!, Japanese maples, irrigation, proper soil, root space, clay absorbs water, there isn't good drainage with clay, lightweight potting soil and organic compost, earthworms,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/09/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Pearl Fryar, master of topiary and gardener of a three-acre garden in Bishopville, South Carolina.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Pearl Fryar (14:08)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Heritage Radio Network, Groundworks Inc, Hearst Ranch, Bishopsville South Carolina, A Man Named Pearl, topiary garden, we have the power to shape our world into what we want and desire it to be, topiarus is Latin for landscape gardener, topiary gardening, ancient form of clipping and shaping geometric patterns, Edward Scissorhands, Bonsai, monks kept the style and practice alive in Europe, Victorians adopted the process, they can come in many shapes, partair, hedges, potted topiaries, topiary, traditional made by hand, symbol of wealth, mazes, labyrinths, build to encourage spiritual mediation, Pearl Fryar, he didn't know anything about plants when he started, he wanted to win yard of the month, Pearl only had one lesson, www.pearlfryar.com, it's like sculpting,Hard Work Always Pays Off (14:56)
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oak, making a plant square from a round shape, success is determined by work, it's gotta come from love, if you're gifted it will show, finding resources within yourself, Pearl has a 3 acre garden, Pearl won yard of the month finally, he has influenced many others, he teaches art classes, he teaches students to draw from their strengths, sometimes it takes a long time to realize talent, what have plants taught Pearl?, he looks at the garden as a form of expression, why do athletes get scholarships to develop talent and others don't?, Pearl enjoys home gardens, he is a junk artist, The Garden Conservancy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
