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First Aired - 08/03/2009 05:00PM
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Kate Manchester talks with Will Allen about the good food revolution and the potential of urban farming.
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Introduction & Show Summary (13:00)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium, fish populations, endangered species, Atlantic Flounder, Seafood Watch, salmon, Alaska, fisheries, fishermen, www.MontereyBayAquarium.org, www.CookingUpAStory.com, India, Claire Hope Cummings, Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, destructive development projects, genetics, National Farmers Market Week, Agriculture Secretary, USDA, www.FarmersMarketCoalition.org, community, www.care2.org, Will Allen, urban farming, Milwaukee, fresh food, Kellog Foundation, chickens, beehives, composting, methane gas, food waste into energy, urban agriculture,Interview with Will Allen: The Future of Urban Farming (13:14)
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Will used to be a professional athlete, Washingon DC, Rockville, MD, sharecropper, intensive urban farming, food deserts, community, youth groups, organic garden, multicultural, vertical process, soil, worms, compost, growing new soil, fast food, public housing project, grass fed meat, yellow perch, greenhouses, making food accessible, www.urbanchicken.com, movement to allow chickens across the country, Market Basket, CSA type program, city policies, heirloom turkeys, goats, ducks, chicken, distribution, retail store, diversified marketing scheme, multi-generational, social justice, broken food system, food born sicknesses, corn, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains,Interview with Will Allen: Part 2 (9:55)
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we need to fundamentally change our food system, food born sicknesses, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains, corn,Interview With Will Allen Part 3 (17:46)
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50 million new people would need to farm in urban areas to feed the country, less than 1% of food sold in cities is grown locally, job creation, environmental impact, stimulus money, Obama Administration, White House garden, Growing Food and Justice For All Initiative, Yes Magazine, GMO, geothermal, revolution, funding, www.growingpower.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/07/2013 03:00PM
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Tune in as Out East Foodie blogger Laura Luciano joins Rachel Wharton on this week's episode of Meet Your Maker! Laura discusses sustainable living out in Eastern Long Island and the process of building a sustainable home while keeping up with her popular food blog. Listen in as she talks about the local foods, farms, and fisheries that have inspired articles and dishes in her blog as well as her geothermal and solar home that will be self sustaining and the perfect place for the Out East Feast. Follow the excitement as she cooks, keeps bees, gardens, and is soon to tend a chicken coop! This program was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
"The out east and the east end speaks to the way we want to live our life." [8:40]
"Out East Foodie and this house that we're building is synonymous." [10:29]
"The farmers are salt of the earth people and to be in the middle of that is so exciting to me." [23:14]
--Laura Luciano on Meet Your Maker
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First Aired - 02/07/2010 12:00PM
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On a very important episode of The Main Course, professor Dickson Despommier discusses population growth and food production and explains how vertical farming might save us all. Also on the show, Jennifer Nelkin and chef Matt Hamilton.
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The Main Course Introduction (9:40)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Dickson Farmstand Meats, structural images for urban farming, tall towers, hydroponically fueled, Brooklyn Grange, Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, Martha Stewart, New York Times,Matt Hamilton of Belcourt (25:00)
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Toyota, foreign corporations, car industry, mustard, herbs, spices, Matt Hamilton, chickens, eggs, cows, Utica, Long Island, Rhode Island red hen, french bistro, East Village, small menu, wine, Paul Grimes, the culture of food, food politics, Bobo, Queens, Dairyland, red at the bone, Prune, Roberta's, Yelp,Compromise in the Restaurant Industry (26:50)
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the Heritage Radio Network website now has a commenting function, chick peas, compromise in the restaurant industry, practicality, organic products, commodity, farmers market, milk, us against them approach, Virginia, Mumbai, Southeast Asia, Marine Corps, Judy Rogers, Alice Waters, fast sex and slow sex, Fairway Market, Mexican olive oil, food quality, Chinese restaurants, New York Noodle Town, Peking Duck House, braised short ribs, San Francisco, Quince, Michael Tusk, portion size, handmade pasta, Trump building, Balthazar, Automat,Dickson Despommier on Population Growth and Food Production (26:32)
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Dickson's Farmstand Meats, Super Bowl, highway commission, Indianapolis, major highways, controlled environment agriculture, Jen Nelkin, http://gothamgreens.com/, vertical farming, hydroponics, Scott Stringer, global warming, Africa, water supply, hyena, we headed south, bone eaters, marrow, farming, domesticated animals, neanderthals, Jared Diamond, Quest For Fire, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard Wrangham, Middle East, oasis, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, irrigation projects, Michael Pollan, humans have rearranged the landscape in our favor, Copenhagen, climate summit, ethanol, corn, subsidized, oil, harnessing fuel, energy, internal combustion engine, alcohol, Henry Ford, tractor, dynamite, end of slavery, the perfect storm for farming, NPK, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, urea, when did the first agricultural revolution end?, it began 12000 years ago, it ended in 1940, The Grapes of Wrath, Neil Young, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman, vertical farming is a radical solution to these problems, Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, over population, open door immigration policy, labor force,Jen Nelkin Explains How Vertical Farming Can Save Us (17:45)
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lettuce, bibb salad, Roberta's, how can vertical farming help, Jenn Nelkin, Jennifer Nelkin, psychological advantages, vertical farming is expensive, Gotham Greens, retrofitting buildings, a lot of technical skill is required, power requirements, closed system, half an acre produces 50000 pounds of crops a year, the return will be very high on the investment, venture capitalists, seasonality, locavores, hydroponic tomatoes, sweeping statements can't tell you anything, some hydroponic produce tastes terrible, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, NYSERDA, solar, www.gothamgreens.com,Having Our Cake & Eating It Too (21:50)
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how can we have our cake and eat it too?, quality food at a good price point grown sustainably, factory food production system, hydroponic farming, crop viability, prototypical vertical farming project, Monsanto, government subsidies, synthetic fertilizer, recycling nutrients, germination, automated growth systems, harvesting, Seinfeld, research and development, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology, politicians, green collar jobs, employment opportunities, consumer groups, Ghana, Niger, floods, droughts, locusts, Iceland, geothermal energy, food security issues, livestock, the average farmer in the US makes $10000 dollars a year, small farms, President Barack Obama, taxpayers, farm bill was $300 billion dollars,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
