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First Aired - 05/10/2010 12:30PM
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Bernie hosts Lee Mandell & Chloe Bass of Boswyck Farms who tlak about the potential of hydroponic farming in Bushwick.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Boswyck Farms (14:31)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Boswyck Farms, hydroponic farms, installaions in homes and rooftops, educatoinal component, what is hyrdoponisc, growing plants without soil, Aztecs used to do it, floating gardens, early versions of hydroponics, hydroponicist, some plants grow in the air, epiphytes, Everglades National Park, staghorn ferns, old man's beard, using sand gravel and clay pellets to grow plants, vertical farming, Bushwick, the neighborhood has changed a lot, affordable housing, rental units, more businesses opening up, urban farming movement, workshop for adults at Buglabs, school food is a national tragedy,Hydroponic Farming with Lee Mandell and Chloe Bass (15:13)
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Lee Mandell, Chloe Bass, persto, basil, growing food for schools, kids don't love green, we need to address that as a country, home economics, pizza, jello, chocolate pudding, pesto with spinach and arugula, vary the type of cheese, olive oil, you need less water for hydroponic growing, hydroponics in Japan, farm visits are available, once people see it it makes a lot more sense, we have a lot of unused acreage, rooftops have great potential, there is a lot of red tape to overcome, food handlers permits,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/03/2009 05:00PM
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Kate Manchester talks with Will Allen about the good food revolution and the potential of urban farming.
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Introduction & Show Summary (13:00)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium, fish populations, endangered species, Atlantic Flounder, Seafood Watch, salmon, Alaska, fisheries, fishermen, www.MontereyBayAquarium.org, www.CookingUpAStory.com, India, Claire Hope Cummings, Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, destructive development projects, genetics, National Farmers Market Week, Agriculture Secretary, USDA, www.FarmersMarketCoalition.org, community, www.care2.org, Will Allen, urban farming, Milwaukee, fresh food, Kellog Foundation, chickens, beehives, composting, methane gas, food waste into energy, urban agriculture,Interview with Will Allen: The Future of Urban Farming (13:14)
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Will used to be a professional athlete, Washingon DC, Rockville, MD, sharecropper, intensive urban farming, food deserts, community, youth groups, organic garden, multicultural, vertical process, soil, worms, compost, growing new soil, fast food, public housing project, grass fed meat, yellow perch, greenhouses, making food accessible, www.urbanchicken.com, movement to allow chickens across the country, Market Basket, CSA type program, city policies, heirloom turkeys, goats, ducks, chicken, distribution, retail store, diversified marketing scheme, multi-generational, social justice, broken food system, food born sicknesses, corn, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains,Interview with Will Allen: Part 2 (9:55)
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we need to fundamentally change our food system, food born sicknesses, soy beans, ramp up production, renewable energy, agro chemical conglomerate villains, corn,Interview With Will Allen Part 3 (17:46)
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50 million new people would need to farm in urban areas to feed the country, less than 1% of food sold in cities is grown locally, job creation, environmental impact, stimulus money, Obama Administration, White House garden, Growing Food and Justice For All Initiative, Yes Magazine, GMO, geothermal, revolution, funding, www.growingpower.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/15/2011 02:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Kreig delve into ethno-botany with Dr. Ina Vandebroek, Ethnomedical Research Specialist at the Institute of Economic Botany at New York Botanical Garden. They discuss the role plants play in medicine and how in other cultures herbal remedies and traditional healing methods are trusted more than conventional health care. Learn more more about ethnobotany, immigrant health and more on a very informative episode of We Dig Plants. This episode was sponsored by Barterhouse Wines.
"In a 2005 study on Dominican ethnomedicine that was financed by the National Institute of Health we discovered that 80% of the people tested believed that there were health conditions that a medical doctor does not understand and cannot cure and that's why they are using herbal remedies."
"The majority of the population in the Dominican Republic believes that The Evil Eye exists."
-- Dr. Ina Vandebroek on Ethnomedical Research Specialist at the Institute of Economic Botany at New York Botanical Garden on We Dig Plants
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We Dig Plants: Ethnobotany (17:59)
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,, We, Dig, Plants, Carmen, DeVito, Alice, Marcus, Kreig, plant, potential, ethobotany, insitute, of, Economic, Botany, New, York, Botanical, Garden, immigrant, health, care, Dr., Ina, Vandebroek, kissing, bug, Trypanosoma, cruzi, conservation, biodiversity, taxonomy, identifying, plants, sustainable, pest, control,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
