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First Aired - 01/19/2012 02:00PM
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This week the ladies of We Dig Plants are fresh back from MANTS. What is MANTS you ask? Tune in to find out more about the history and goings on of the Mid-Atlantic Nusrsery Trade Show from hosts Alice and Carmen including the perennial plant of the year, the dangers of an advancing Boxwood blight, and how an industry concerned with greenery is trying to go green with rice hulls and other innovative products and techniques. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
"The perennial plant of the year for 2012 is: "Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' . "
"Boxwood is a very commonly cultivated plant, it's important to the industry, it's in every garden . . and it's under attack."
--Carmen Devito on We Dig Plants
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We Dige Plants: What is MANTS? (18:53)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus-Krieg, Carmen Devito, Brooklyn Blend Soil, trade show, MANTS, plant trade show, plant people, plant trends, boxwood, Mid Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, ag extension, Boxwood blight, Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost', shade loving plants, green industry, rice hulls, Terrain, Green Depot, Organics Mechanics, Ball Horticultural, old plant companies,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/11/2011 04:30PM
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FREE COOPER UNION! Students are protesting and architects across New York City are up in arms after Jamshed Bharucha, current president of Cooper Union, has suggested charging tuition for the first time in the institution's history since 1902. Listen to Curtis B. Wayne on this week's episode of Burning Down the House as he delves into the history of Cooper Union and tells the story of its founder, Peter Cooper. Learn why the notion of charting tuition at Cooper Union is especially egregious and why budgetary transparency should be in order. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"Education should be free as air, free as water" - Peter Cooper
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Burning Down the House: FREE COOPER UNION! (6:45)
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Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, architecture, #FREECOOPERUNION, Cooper Union, tuition,The Peter Cooper Story (10:37)
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history of Cooper Union, Peter Cooper, education should be free, railroads, mechanics, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art,Debt & Transparency (11:00)
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Andrew Carnegie, endowment, debt, George Campbell, Mark Epstein, Board of Trustees, transparency,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/19/2012 04:30PM
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On this week's episode of We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg is hosting by herself. Alice is talking with Richard Horan, the author of Harvest: An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms. Tune into this episode to hear why the politics of illegal immigration inspired Richard to become a farm worker. How did Richard's background in gardening prepare him to become a farmer? What parallels does Richard see in the disciplines of writing and farming? Tune in to hear some of Richard's farm experiences! Hear about cranberry harvesting, and how he connected with farmers and seasonal workers a like. This program has been brought to you by Whole Foods.
"If it weren't for youth, there would be no farms. You need speed and energy to get that product off the vine quickly and expeditiously. That was a big surprise for me." [7:10]
"It's everything that we attribute to art and culture- and it's all out there on the farm!" [13:30]
-- Richard Horan on We Dig Plants
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Becoming a Farm Worker (17:17)
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Harvest, substitute teacher, organic, Richard Horan, illegal immigrants, farm workers, fruits, vegetables, Harper Collins, farming, serendipity, peaches, oranges, walnuts, asparagus, muckraking, family farm, gardening, business, rewarding work, Harvest: An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms, humanity, Jared Diamond, agriculture, medical science, population increase, hunter gatherer, hope, art, young people, sustainability,Down in the Cranberry Bogs (17:44)
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cranberry harvest, bogs, berries, dry harvest, wet harvest, lawn mower, Thanksgiving, engineer, mechanics, business, Renaissance man, potato, seed potato company, self-deprecating, literature, horticulture, writing, trees, William Faulkner, authors, creative writing, fiction, non-fiction, Nikolai Gogol,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
