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First Aired - 05/03/2012 04:30PM
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This week on Flash Talks Cash, JoAnn "Flash" Fleming and Andrew Newman are talking about multitasking. What are some of the risks involved with multitasking? Flash says that multitasking can affect the quality of a person's work, and can also be dangerous. Ever seen someone texting while driving? On the other hand, Andrew believes that multitasking can increase a individual's efficiency, and thinks that technology has made it easier for people to multitask. It's necessary in order to keep up with today's pace! In the second segment, Jack Inslee (President and Executive Producer, Heritage Radio Network) joins in the conversation and shares some of his thoughts about the subject. What's the difference between multitasking and serial tasking? Tune in to find out! This program has been sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
"Everybody thinks that mediocre is okay. I think people accept 'less than' as okay, and that's the problem." -- JoAnn "Flash" Fleming on Flash Talks Cash
"Everybody thinks that mediocre is okay. I think people accept 'less than' as okay, and that's the problem." -- JoAnn "Flash" Fleming on Flash Talks Cash
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Do You Multitask? (12:09)
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Multitasking, cost, money, overwhelmed, invoice, texting while driving, serial tasking, stressed, focus, finances, email, single task, homework, brain function, addiction,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/25/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen and Alice explore the world of INVADERS: very small plants or animal species that can be very large headaches, and can be the cause of everything from a minor nuisance to a major catastrophe. Tune in to hear Alan Green, Brooklyn-born director of PPQ Plant Health Programs (within the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service), discuss his work fighting pests: APHIS are guys that check everything from people to plants to parcels to prevent the spread of exotic pests and diseases. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Invaders Must Die! (14:58)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, Heritage Radio Network, protecting our nations agriculture from foreign invaders, Japanese Longhorn Beetle, USDA, APHIS, Alan Green, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, preventing the entry of exotic pests and diseases, surveillance, management, tomato leaf minor, Tuta absoluta, the Japanese sent over cherry trees as a gift in 1910, the first shipments were rejected because of pests, emerald ash borer, www.dontmovefirewood.org, use local firewood at campgrounds, there are many different types of agricultural losses, off shore pest information programs, Asian Gypsy Moth,Alan Green , Executive Director of PPQ Plant Health Programs (14:24)
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PPQ Plant Health Program, there are 17 plant inspection stations, APHIS has inspected more than 1.3 billion plant and plant parts, APHIS has treated more than 17 million plants, Christmas trees were made out of limbs of plants from Asian countries, some of them had serious forest pests, these trees needed to be banned, avoid the fake Christmas tree!, when you plant a plant the pest has a home instantly, strict regulations for planting material, invasive plant species, Kudzu vine, weed seeds, bio terrorism, advice for causal traveling gardeners, do your homework, declare everything, many plants are allowed, IPPC, endangered species, orchid, cactus,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/26/2010 02:00PM
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This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev speaks with Jarrett Man of Stone Soup Farm in Belchertown, MA‎. Jarret speaks on the hurdles of working with volunteers--separating the dedicated vikings of the earth from the lackadaisical volunteers who disappear after the first bead of sweat. He and Sev praise The Small Farm Institute, an organization responsible for starting the farming career of Man and many, many others. Man also speaks on learning about farming; his school-born, formal, explicit education versus his on-sight, subtle, experiential wisdom. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
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Jarrett Man of Stone Soup Farms (12:23)
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Jarrett Man, Stone Soup Farms, http://sites.google.com/site/stonesoupfarm/, leaseholds to starting farmers, the principles of community orientation and environmental respect, farming methods good for the environment and community, a strong emphasis on being a real for-profit business, Jarrett came from Red Fire Farm, Jarrett's apprenticeship process, Jarrett came from a science background, finding solutions to problems quickly and efficiently, small farmers that are becoming viable that haven't been for a generation, college-educated entrepreneurs are starting farms now which is a fairly new trend, there are a lot of movements like local foods and sustainablity and environmentalism that farming can address in a pragmatic way, farming for Jarrett is a means to an end rather than the ultimate goal, how Jarrett leased his land, LandLink is a program that matches landholders with people seeking out land, Jarrett's crew ranges from just him to six or seven in the summer, Stone Soup has 3 apprentices and 2 part-timers with previous ag experience and some workshares involved with CSA plus some volunteers, the CSA workshares work three months for five months of CSA food, Jarrett tries not to base farm labor on volunteerism because the work can be so intense, small vegetable operations are vulnerable to labor shortages because the work is so hard, Sev's advice to volunteers: show up don't flake out and wear a hat, Jarrett has benefited from having a service provider (The Small Farm Institute), Small Farm Institute hooked up with Stone Soup and Red Fire Farms with land, Greenhorns is working on how to be the most effective client of a service provider, how to approach your extension officer, people are becoming farmers who wouldn't have been farmers in the past,Science, Mechanization, and Experience on the Farm (16:35)
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the profit margin for farming is very slim ergo if you're not effective at what you do you won't be doing it for long, Jarrett's knowledge of soil science and microbes has been helpful, a lot of farming is knowledge, having a good green thumb, some problems on the farm have science answers and some have answers based on a personal philosophy, farming is learning every day whether is explicit learning or experiential, its important to be aware of the general mood of the public, right now people generally want to support small farmers who are good to the land and their workers, comprimises must be made on a farm in order to stay viable, Jarrett worries the fervor of the current movement might burn itself out like a fad, many industries and companies are starting to hop on the green bandwagon, sustainability is not just trying to stop spraying but financial sustainability, if a small farm is spending too much time doing something a bigger farmer has mechanized eventually the small farm will lose out in the market, if we really want to transition our food system to a system that produces a lot of food without pesticides etc you have to accept blemishes and generally lower your beauty standards, Stone Soup farms produces a lot of beautiful food but some of it isnt, CSA is brilliant because CSA members stick with a farm and it becomes their friend so they are less judgemental and more tolerant of the product, the best way to support good agricultural practices is to do your homework and choose the most responsible farm in your CSA, there is room for more farms as long as the demand continues to rise, Jarrett is worried demand may drop off, Jarrett is accepting applications for apprentices for next season, Stone Soup Farm's Chilifest is the third Saturday in August, Hearst Ranch, the ability to intuit whats going on in a complex system like a farm, diesel fuel must be burned and salaries are not as high as Jarrett would like because both are a necessity to stay in business,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
