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First Aired - 05/13/2010 12:00PM
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Linda sits down with author, horticulture legend and the worlds premiere vegetable gardener Amy Goldman. Amy also serves as the Board Chair for Seed Savers exchange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving heirloom plant varieties.
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A Taste of the Past: Plant Porn! (15:40)
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A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio, Tekserve, Heritage Radio Network, Amy Goldman, Seed Savers Exchange, vegetable whisperer, gardening, Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, The Heirloom Tomato, Amy wanted to seduce people into growing heirloom vegetables, Victor Schrager, Michael Harlan Turkel, The Food Seen, seasonality, this is a great time for gardening, eating tomatoes out of season, the story of the tomato, what does heirloom mean?, an heirloom is a verity of value that breeds true from seed and thus can be handed down to the next generation, designed to be home grown, flavor, disease resistance, seed hybrids, open pollination, bio-diversity, smallest tomatoes have the highest acid and sugar levels, Alberto Shatters, Amy became a member of Seed Savers in 1990,Amy Goldman of Seed Savers Exchange (14:50)
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cooking from the garden, New York State Fair, Dutchess County Fair, preserving varieties, as the years went on Amy became more of an advocate, there are 12,000 other members of Seed Savers Exchange, www.seedsavers.org, if you want to maintain seed security you should isolate by distance, cross pollination, saving seeds of tomato and bean is pretty easy, plant pornography, plant porn, squash, pumpkin, instructions for saving heirloom seeds, grow one variety of each type in the garden, there will be no crossing, growing peppers, Golden Midget, melons, www.rareforms.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/27/2010 04:00PM
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This week on the Heritage Report, Heather and Jack talk to Marty Travis of Spence Farm, supplier to Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill in Chicago, about Iroquois White Corn, an heirloom variety of corn.
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Heritage Report Introduction (9:36)
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Heather of Heritage, heritage foods, Heather on hiatus, Heritage farm in Virginia, Heather Hyman, Heritage Foods USA, Heritage Report, farmers, connecting the producer to the consumer, distributors, godfather of american poultry, heritage birds, poultry industry, connect farmers that raise heritage breeds of meat with whoever needs them across the country, heritagefoodsusa.com, ducks, geese, steaks, turkey, bison, seasonal meat, paw paw, superbowl food, superbowl sunday specials, ribs, country ribs, boston butt, fresh lamb from montana, recipes from some of the country's best chefs and farmers, corn, Iroquois white corn, Marty Travis, Spence Farm, Trimble, Missouri, Paradise Locker Meats, Fairbury Illinois,Marty Travis of Spence Farm (10:32)
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Marty Travis, spence farm, been in the family for 180 years, 160 acre farm, 150 acres of conventional corn, beans, alfalfa, 10+ acres of vegetable crops in heirloom varieties, heirloom tomatoes, heirloom potatoes, growing for restaurants in the Chicago area, local food network in Illinois, local restaurants and grocery stores who support Spence and local farms, young farmers, packaged and labeled at farm, grocery stores give 80% to farmers, community awareness and education, looking to expand into small grains this year, businesses are asking for barley, rye, wheat, spelt, local brewers, 10 acres of heirloom vegetables is separate in production from rest of farm, LLC, co-op of 25 other small family farms, other local farms offer proteins, cooperative, bartering, Iroquois white corn, rick bayless, frontera, roasted cornmeal, $50/pound in Ontario, conventional farmers pay $100/50 lb bag, expensive,Marty Travis elaborates on Iroquois White Corn (10:56)
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Iroquois white corn, the corn type has a heritage and history, passed down over generations for 100+ years, get the same corn each time you plant it, conventional corn has insecticides, dozens of varieties of heirloom corn, Iroquois white corn has a distinctive flavor, large-kerneled corn, size of hominy, pozole, lye, 63 lbs of cornmeal to Frontera, 250 kernels for $20, the more and more we can introduce it, the price will go down, trying to eventually get it into seed catalogs, how to confirm that genetics are what the farmers say they are, iroquois tribe, chief john mohawk, seed traveled through the Iroquois nation, and to Ontario, don't harvest with combine, first few years all corn was hand-picked, hand-roast the corn over an oak fire, smoky, earthy flavor, harvest by end of October, takes 2-4 weeks to roast and dry, thespencefarm.com, Jack Inslee,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/03/2009 04:00PM
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Today's July 4th themed Farm Report features Callene Rapp, Chairwoman of The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. Callen speaks on how heritage farmers can gain independence from commodity production, and the urgency of preserving our heirloom breeds.
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An Intro to the ALBC and Biodiversity (5:32)
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Callen Rapp, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, non-profit, extinction, heritage breeds, modern food production, commodity market, Brian Kenny, protecting endangered breeds, Highland Cattle, 4th of July, Frank Reese, biodiversity, pathogens,Callene Rapp on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (3:34)
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small family farms, industrial agriculture, no extinct breeds of livestock since the ALBC was founded in 1977, education, information, heritage breeds, Terroir, place specific,Indigenous versus Heritage Breeds in America (6:00)
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history of domestication and civilization, Imports, trade, turkey indigenous to America, Heritage, United States as melting pot, culture, roots in other countries, Heritage Foods USA, awareness, Slow Food USA, Ark of Taste,Pathogens, Average age of Farmers and the Future of Farming (14:23)
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pathogen, Irish Potato Famine, importance of biodiversity, USDA, recalls, contamination, industrial systems, food production, cutting corners, need for younger farmers, Chicago Board of Trade, next generation, commodity market,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
