The Food Seen
LIVE 3 - 3:30pm EST
First Aired - 10/10/2011 06:00PM
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This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is joined by one of the founders of The Brooklyn Grange, a one-acre rooftop farm in Long Island City. Tune in to hear how the farm was started and how vertical and rooftop farming can play a huge role in the future of agriculture in urban areas. Find out what the guys at The Brooklyn Grange are up to right now, and make sure to vote for them in the BBC's World Challenge. Vote here! This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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Straight, No Chaser: Brooklyn Grange (10:24)
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Brooklyn Grange, Heritage Radio Network, Katy Keiffer, Straight No Chaser, Ben Flanner, farming, urban farming, rooftop farming, rooftop farm, vertical farming, rainwater, fertilizer, structural engineering, crops, grains, economic value, corn, salad greens, seasonality, heirloom tomatoes, sun loving plants,Soil, Pests & Rooftop Farming (9:28)
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soil, pests, white flies, ladybugs, rooftop farming, farming models, farmers markets, restaurants, solar panels, wind farms, alternative energy,Growing the Grange (11:44)
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extrapolation, venture capitalists, corporations, Slow Money, governmental funding, subsidies, local politicians, Christine Quinn, Scott Stringer, rainwater, Department of Environmental Protection, public space, education, home economics, seed germination, gardening, airborne pollutants, heavy metals, seed saving, hybridizing,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/10/2011 06:30PM
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Erica Wides, aka Chefsmartypants, gets dirty on a leafy themed episode of Why We Cook. Tune in to hear about her adventures making her bungalow gardens animal proof and find out valuable advice on how to properly clean produce. Also, here a hilarious story that ends with a chocolate covered mouse in the kitchen! This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery
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Why We Cook: Dirt & Leaves (14:21)
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Erica Wides, Chef Smartypants, Why We Cook, Heritage Radio Network, Cain Vineyard & Winery, www.CainFive.com, available garden space, herbs, plant protection, building barriers, keeping out animals, who's opposed to gardens?, organic top soil, compost, deer fence, sugar snap peas, leafy greens, green beans, squash, Square Foot Gardening,Washing Produce & The Chocolate Covered Mouse (17:13)
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pre-washed baby arugula, properly washing greens, completely immerse in cold water, completely wash sand and dirt, local farmers don't have massive processing plants to clean with, baby imported vegetables, bugs on produce, spiders, ladybugs, if you see spiders on produce it's a good thing!, watercress, chocolate covered mouse, rodents in the kitchen,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/03/2009 02:00PM
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On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Anya Kamenskaya, Greenhorn intern and event planner. Anya touches on her work at UC Berkley, its farm studies program, and a new way to combat pests without pesticides called Integrated Pest Management.
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Anya on Her Work with The Greenhorns (12:13)
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Anya's work as a farmer, University of California at Berkeley, Hudson Valley activists, Red Devon Stanfordville, young farmer incubator programs, grow what people want to buy, rare French lettuce, head lettuce, Greenhorns seed packages, Hudson Valley Seed Library, popularizing rare lettuces, Anya organized Watermelon Moonshine event, Anarchy Apiary, marketing farmers' products more effectively, humane slaughtering, greenhorns event production, empowering young farmers, be persistent!, Smithereen Farm, event planning, Anya Kamenskaya,Integrated Pest Management (10:56)
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California Zephyr, Institute for Sustainable Urban Agriculture, Integrated Pest Management: the holistic study of the use of insects to reduce farmers' reliance on pesticides, relationship between predators and prey, capitalizing on these relationships to reduce use of pesticides, predatory spiders, gain an appreciation for the natural life through your garden, bringing sustainable food onto university campuses, College of Natural Resources, Smithereen Farm, ladybugs, moths, ecology, www.agroeco.org, www.foodfirst.org, Anya Kamenskaya,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
