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First Aired - 05/16/2013 01:00PM
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How do livestock protect the environment? This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks calls up Judith Schwartz, author of Cows Save the Planet to discuss erosion, carbon, and the health of the planet. Tune into this program to hear Judith talk about the natural grazing habits of herbivores like cows, and how these tendencies help keep the ecosystem in check. How do animals contribute to the biodiversity of plant species? Learn more about topsoil; what is topsoil, and how is it created? Listen in to hear how Judith hopes her book will inspire the future of consumers, and influence producers to adopt alternative land management practices. Tune in and learn how proper holistic land stewardship is a political issue, and how you can affect change. This program has been brought to you by Bonnie Plants. Thanks to Idgy Dean for today's music.
"The livestock functions as biological accelerators- they move this process forward. They keep the carbon cycle, the water cycle, etc. from getting out of whack." [13:50]
"For every ton of grain produced, seven tons of topsoil are lost." [17:50]
-- Judith Schwartz on The Farm Report
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Land Management (14:19)
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Judith Scwhartz, Cows Save the Planet, economics, CO2, agriculture practices, fossil fuels, grazing, land management, land restoration, Allan Savory, cows, pasture, natural predators, herbivores, biodiversity, organic matter, bare soil, carbon, Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse, holistic planned grazing,Topsoil (22:56)
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perennial grasses, The Farm Bill, grasslands, deep-rooted grasses, liquid carbon pathway, native grasses, topsoil, aeration, organisms, fungi, microbes, water, erosion, flooding, keyline plow, P.A. Yeomans, Australia, Slow Money, holistic management, Tucker Square, Lincoln Center, epazopte, duck eggs, charcuterie, Jonathan White, Nina White, brie, Jean Louis Palladin, rye, Bill Telepan, strawberries, Windsor Terrace, Bay Ridge, Sunnyside, Socrates, sustainable seafood, Union Square, Educated Eater,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/17/2011 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants we're taken head first into a big sack of rice-related readings as Carmen and Alice break down the most delicious of all tall grasses. Learn how rice got here, how we first grew it abroad and at home, and what varieties grow well where. Rice to meet you!
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Rice from 6,000 BC to 1700 AD (11:10)
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Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Groundworks Inc, Rice, Rice was brought to the states in 1685 by a ship, the ship was damaged by storm and exchanged rice seeds for repairs at port, by the 18th century rice became a major export croup in South Carolina due to slavery, what else is going to grow in the swamp?, tobacco and indigo, wind fan, grinding, winnowing, mortars, rice is like wheat or millet, rice grows wild in South East Asia, people first farmed rice in Thailand around 6,000 BC, Rice was spread around quite a bit by Alexander the Great, by 800 AD people in East Africa were growing rice, Chinese farmers first invented the rice paddy, paddies save water and help kill weeds, Louisiana and Mississippi are very tied to rice, rice was a major crop for colonists by 1700; especially Carolina Gold Rice, rice moved westward to cheaper land, mechanization lowered rice harvesting costs, Chinese immigrants' influx brought more rice to the states, .,Harvesting Methods (14:42)
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Carmen grew up eating Carolina rice, where does rice grow best for today's market?, the plant itself can grow up to 15 feet in deep water, rice is very obviously a grass, 90% of the rice grown in the US is consumed in the US, some Asian countries continue to produce rice by hand, mules and oxen cannot be used in traditional means of growing rice as they would sink into the soft soil, human hands were therefore needed, regulating water through the fields, planting by hand means dropping a seed into a hole made in soil with a toe then tamped down with foot, Carolina Gold was usually flooded 3 times, the sprout flow the stretch flow (for insects) and the harvest flow (to support the stalks), growing rice by hand is back breaking work, Middleton Place is a plantation in Charleston, winnowing, Native American or Wild Rice, Native American's harvesting methods were often sacred, harvesting by canoe, rice as commodity,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/11/2012 01:00PM
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Born in Saskatchewan, Canada on a big ag grain pig farm. Tina has a B.A in Native Studies and B.Ed in Adult Education. After teaching for 3 years in Patagonia, AZ Tina and her husband, Jim, started a business guiding and outfitting horseback trips into the Coronado National Forest in the San Rafael Valley. After closing that business, Tina and Jim moved to Tucson met a woman who wanted to buy our ranch in the valley but didn't have the money to do so. Tina and her husband ended up trading properties with the woman and moved to Amado. They started out with grass-fed beef with a loose partnership with another family, Double Check Ranch, that had been doing markets and grass-fed beef for many years in Tucson. After one year of selling their beef and chickens under Double Check's label, Tina and Jim created our own label and company, so Walking J Farm was born. Tina homeschools their kids, teaches a yoga class once every two weeks, and helps run the business. This program has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
"I think we need to educate people and start putting local food in our stores. I really think that the consumer drives the whole system." -- Tina Bartsch on Greenhorn Radio
"I think we need to educate people and start putting local food in our stores. I really think that the consumer drives the whole system." -- Tina Bartsch on Greenhorn Radio
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Veggies, Chicken, Beef, and Turkeys (33:34)
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Walking J Farm, farm access, Tina Barsch, ranch land, grass-fed, poultry, pork, beef, property, farmer's market, big producers, chickens, sustainable, chicken feed, closed-system, arid climate, irrigated pasture, corn, alfalfa, soil, importing and exporting, shipping, global economy, local, non-GMO, grasses, multipurpose chickens, butchering, free range, species, brassicas, cows, rotating pastures, labor, local seed source, diversity, monoculture, quality of life, holistic management, broiler chicken, sourcing to restaurants, pork chop, watermelon, slavery, consumer practices, profit, greed, the drug trade, local farmer, C.S.A., disposable, leftovers, seasonal, pickled okra, barter economy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
