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First Aired - 11/18/2010 01:00PM
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This week on The Farm Report, Heather & Erin are joined by friend of the station and rooftop farming extraordinaire, Ben Flanner. They discuss the progress of the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm, and touch upon many of the important elements that help bring fresh and delicious produce from a roof to your mouth. This episode was kindly sponsored by the folks at Cain Five Vineyard & Winery.
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The Farm Report Introduction: Ben Flanner (16:44)
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The Farm Report, Cain Five, www.cainfive.com, Erin Fairbanks, Heather Hyman, Brooklyn Grange, Ben Flanner, urban agriculture, rooftop farming, soil is twice as much as the green roof system, wood scraps from Woodworkers, irrigation was set up in early June, how does the produce get off the roof?, elevators, people are already signed up for next year, market at Roberta's on Sunday, composting, Ben has a network of farmers he can call with problems, Elliot Coleman,Running the Brooklyn Grange (13:18)
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bamboo provides support for plants, collaboration, we are all working for the same cause, getting people to eat locally grown food, less than 3 or 4% of produce consumed in the city is local or regional, there is potential for growth in that number, sustainability, Brooklyn Grange has gotten tons of press, direct to consumer sales, farmers markets account for almost half of all Brooklyn Grange sales, www.brooklyngrangefarm.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/04/2010 12:00PM
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Patrick Martins and Mike Edison speak to Ben Flanner about rooftop farms, Scott Smith about BBQ, and Jason Boog about the iPad and the future of publishing.
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Easter Intro (13:26)
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Patrick Martins, Tekserve, Mike Edison, Ben Flanner, BBQ, Scott Smith, sustainability, media bistro, ipad, cryogenics, Steve Pope, Brooklyn Grange, punching through new ideas!, slowing metabolism, miracles!, kfabe, a million pounds of soil on the roof, Jason Boog, Erik Hoffner, huge flat warehouses, great open spaces, growing food right in NYC, using space to grow food, Roberta's was a autobody shop, can any roof sustain all that soil?, structural engineer, Gaia Institute, Steve Menkowitz, Styrofoam mixed with soil, roots need gaps in the growing medium, Rub BBQ, championship style BBQ, electric wood burning oven, no full sized logs, EPA, the amount of smoke produced, filtration systems, whole hogs, lamb shoulders, non-regional style means more freedom, Nat is tagging/engineering, operators are standing by, the operator is Nat,Ben Flanner and Brooklyn Grange (14:56)
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why the resistance to change the city?, why is it so hard?, everybody in bk thinks their property is worth a whole lot of money long term, landlords see their building as an ATM machine, a new revenue stream, a roof garden adds value and WOWlue, amazing simplicity, growing a little of everything, 1300 tomato plants, kale, chard, herbs galore, fun things!, puntarelle, treviso, purple tomatillos, purple okra, thai chilis, peppers do great on the roof, how can you sell such a diversity?, demand far exceeds supply, the city is receptive but wont give us cash, city offers a tax credit, the tax credit goes straight to the landlord, the DEP, Christine Quinn, venture capitalists, www.brooklyngrangefarm.com, cattle grazing on the roof, Mike wants a rooftop ranch, a typical head of cattle takes 1-2 acres, goats!, bee keeping is legal now, its no fun anymore now that its legal, mead, step-by-step of getting the farm up, source your soil, lightweight porous soil, pizzas to the cop shop, Putzmeister, dumping stuff on the roof, Bobcat frontloader, lifting palates with a crane, Green Roof membrane, drainage system, shooting and dropping soil, a million pounds!!!, what did the people farm when the Dutch ran the island?, short growing season, legumes grow well cuz they can handle heat and don't need much maintainence, chickory, lettuces, what produces the most / least?, ground cherries are great but produce the least, nightshades,Brooklyn Grange vs. Commercial Farms (11:02)
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is this cheaper than farmers market food?, how does it compare to Pathmark?, a little bit of scale, once you have an ecosystem going and have paid off yr debts you have eliminated a lot of transportation costs, Scott is one of the few sustainable BBQ guys, amazing belly is worth an extra $2, not adding a lot to it, sustainable pigs look as good or better than commodity in terms of fat content, sustainable pigs, making your own bacon, beautifully fatty meat!, vertical farming won't cut off traditional farmers, produce is lacking in NYC, all the good produce is getting used upstate, this benefits the community as an example, Roberta's, Gwen, the San Francisco film festival, Al Qaeda, not much work for the architects,Scott Smith of Rub on BBQ (8:29)
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Polaroid means sleaziness to Mike, porn mags got a lot of amazing Polaroids, naked pictures of Chuck Berry, secrets of BBQ, trial and error, every pit is different, 10,000 hours until you are a virtuoso, you can tell from how the fire is burning, you can vibe it, you are only limited by the time you can spend on it, seperate your grill into a hot side with burning fuel and a meat side with a temperature gauge, BBQ rabbit, rabbit is too lean to BBQ, domesticated duck is good, wild duck is too lean for BBQ, chuck roast is not bad for BBQ, Scott has smoked chucks for friends, brisket and shortrib are ideal for BBQ,Erik Hoffner of Orion Magazine (16:01)
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Erik Hoffner, Orion Magazine, Michael Pollan said local is the new organic in Orion Magazine, howd you get into mushrooms?, its mushroom season soon, Erik got into mushrooms in California, one giant mushroom in Oregon, chantrelles, trumpet size, keep it dank and dark, its easy and cheap to grow your own shitake, mushrooms go great with BBQ, chantrelles are great just in butter, you can grow shitakes as big as portabellos, grilling mushrooms, the travesty of factory meat, eating a half pound of ground beef is like driving an SUV for 10 miles, the way we raise meat is responsible for 20% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, mimick nature, grassland can sequester as much methane as the cows can put down, free range rotationally grazed, can you feed the world like that?, some places can grow grass better than others, is it better to bring beef in from Chile than to buy local?, eat meat more like an ingredient than a main course entree, David Chang says meat needs to cost more period, completely grass fed is not as consistently fatty and delicious, Josh Ozersky, grass fed corn finished is a good comprimise, try Argentinian beef, www.Orionmagazine.org, leave a comment!, Mike is thinking about magic mushrooms, map of meat,Steve Pope on Easter, Eggs, and Chickens (7:54)
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Steve Pope, Easter, the egg, the healing powers of the egg and chicken, the rooster would crow three times, easter egg hunts are a fertility ritual, the chicken has been a good traveler throughout time, the nutrition of chickens kept people healthy, chicken soup, smooth chicken broth, chicken fat shmaltz, coating the throat, some of all this has been lost, boil that chicken!, break the larger bones to open the bone structure and release marrow, the rites of spring,Jason Boog on the iPad (19:22)
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Yankees vs Red Sox, iPad vs Everyone, Jason Boog, Galleycat, the death of print, free media publicity for steve jobs, crazy Apple fans, really just a big iPhone, its not even an iPhone, iPhone is not a good phone, having a computer in your pocket, don't buy the first generation of any Apple product!, mediabistro.com, GalleyCat.com, how much should a digital book cost?, content costs money, people think they should be able to read everything for free, 99 cents is NOT enough for a book!, thats what the library is for, books are better friends than a stream of electrons, people are used to 99 cents for everything from Apple, Patrick's comic moment, you wanna make a steak you need fire!, a crap novel is crap no matter how you read it, digital books are great for self-publishing, planned obselescence, from production to consumer culture, format wars are decided by the pornographers, iPads are just porn delivery devices, the most popular pirated book online has been the Kama Sutra, eighty percent of Google searches are sex related, Mike prefers porn stars over amateurs, so many people are willing to offer their opinions on things for free, Seton Hill,Jason Boog on the Future of Publishing (14:17)
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Apple iStore is changing pricing, Amazon versus Publishers, silding scale for Hollywood movies, indie publishing, the experience of an author is going to change drastically, Mike's publisher turned down his free content, Undertaker was undefeated 18-0, Vince McMahon's wife is running for Senate, Mike doesn't want to be pessimistic, Wrestlemania,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
