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First Aired - 05/17/2013 04:00PM
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Lauren Melodia aims to link New York dairy farmers and high incarceration rates with her organization, Milk Not Jails. This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby sits down with Lauren, founder and co-organizer, to talk about the prison system in New York, and how it connects the urban with the rural. How do prisons bolster New York's rural economy? Find out how government support for dairy farms as opposed to prisons creates a sustainable economy. Learn how a lack of processing and bottling plants limits production for small dairy farmers. Find out what Milk Not Jails aims to do to support local dairy farmers and help reform the prison system simultaneously. This program has been sponsored by White Oak Pastures. Thanks to Pamela Royal for today's musical interlude.
"The processing world has shut its doors to farmers who want to be entrepreneurial in their industries." [25:15] -- Lauren Melodia on Cutting the Curd
"The processing world has shut its doors to farmers who want to be entrepreneurial in their industries." [25:15] -- Lauren Melodia on Cutting the Curd
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Urban, Meet Rural (19:29)
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Milk Not Jails, Lauren Melodia, social justice, criminal justice, fresh produce, Bed Stuy, prison, East New York, rural, CSA, New Paltz, the prison industry, economy, agriculture, prison development, Rockefeller drug laws, Stop and Frisk, globalization, outsourcing, Upstate New York, Eerie Canal, Interstate highways, marijuana, local, prison farms, milk, the dairy industry, unemployment, dairy farms, Lorraine Lewandrowski, yogurt, milk prices, Milk Thistle Farm,Processing Dairy (14:37)
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politicians, grassroots, local dairy farms, incarceration, Farmland Protection, raw milk products, raw fresh cheese, Dean Foods, milk bottling plants, small business, infrastructure, industrial food products, education, criminal justice reform, alternative economy, dairy share, cream cheese,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/23/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Hot Grease Nicole hosts Mara Gittleman to discuss her organization Farming Concrete. While community gardens are a much-touted solution to environmental, food, and animal welfare issues, there is a surprising dearth of information about the amount of green gardens in NYC. Farming Concrete aims to gather all possible info about the city's gardens to help sustain current gardens and start new ones as efficiently as possible. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a culinary mainstay in NYC for over 55 years.
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Hot Grease Introduction: Farming Concrete (11:29)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete, Mara's Defining Moment, Tufts University, research in Univeristies didn't involve people enough, Mara is from Jersey, Mara grew up between two highways, Mara studied urban agriculture systems in Ethiopia, displacing people into high-rises and condos destroys a community's food system, deforestation in Haiti, trading jobs for the ability to grow food, Farming Concrete is a grass roots organization combining research and communities, GrowNYC, holes in data related to community gardens, putting research into the hands of community gardens empowers them, monetizing food grown, approximating greenhouse gas emissions,Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete (13:04)
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Erik Bellsford is the other half Farming Concrete, if you have a fall harvest Farming Concrete has scales for you, data for community gardens, first time that anyone has measured the amount of food being produced in community gardens, there are 484 gardens in New York City, LandTrust, Community Garden survey, only a fifth of gardeners are using the internet, older gardeners did all the initial legwork and have all the knowledge, maps are a great tool for communication, collard greens are the most popular green, 78.9 percent of gardens have it, 77.6 percent of gardens are growing lettuce, hearty kiwis, Bengali gardeners, fruit trees, figs, top two are apple trees and peach trees, 80% of the gardens have fig trees,More with Mara Gittleman (9:13)
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Roberta's, volunteer run project, next to nothing budget, critical mapping, Farming Concrete, all the employees visit gardens by foot, it only works because of the committed team, a few cities would like to copy this model, there is a tool kit being worked on, American Community Garden Association, Daniel Bowman Simon, building gardens will help kids learn and understand the benefits of eating healthy, this a new era of community and school gardens, there are many leaders in New York City, some are known nationwide and some only known on their block, Yonette Fleming, farmingconcrete.com, they need help mapping gardens!, get involved!, contact mara@farmingconcrete.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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
