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"I started working here in 1965 when I was a kid - so yeah, I guess I've got an apple growing background!" [1:45]
"Since packing machinery came around, the market started insisting on larger apples, waxed apples... the whole thing started to change dramatically." [3:33]
"For a lot of [apple] varieties bigger is not better - it's actually more boring." [10:55]
"Every patch of ground imposes conditions on what things can be grown well there." [12:00]
"A farm is not a natural environment - so the idea that people can grow things naturally is almost a joke to me." [26:28]
"When you plant an orchard - you're basically planting a candy shop for all kinds of organisms. It's very different from having an apple tree in your backyard or a cottage in the woods!" [28:27]
--Steve Wood of Poverty Lane Orchards and Farnum Hill Cider
Steve Wood Talks Apples & Cider! (18:17)
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Steve Wood, apple picking, orchard development, orchards, cider, Poverty Lane Orchards, Farnum Hill Cider, packing machinery, heirloom varieties, hard cider, bushels, Macintosh, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, terroir, microclimates,A Unique Crop (18:40)
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growing differences, market conditions, sales, cider fruit, marketable crops, local ecology, sustainability, hormone use,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
"We make our ice cream with no stabilizers or syrups, and that was really important to us because ice cream can be a very pure food- if done correctly." [18:00] -- Jess Eddy on The Morning After
"The movement isn't just about online engagement, but we want to reform the narrative around poverty." [29:10]
"Food is such an import aspect of our culture, as is music. It's how people gather and get together." [34:20]
-- Michael Trainer on The Morning After
The Front of House (7:36)
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pickling, flu, Global Poverty Project, wine, grapes, lemon tart, pastry chef, Front of House,Phin & Phebes (14:21)
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Phin & Phebes Ice Cream, ice cream machine, Fluffnut, Jess Eddy, Crista Freeman, ice cream flavors, key lime, brownie, caramel, goat, coconut, Ice Cream University, Hester Street Fair, homemade, dry ice, Brooklyn Lyceum, temperature, shelf-life, Pennsylvania, Ben & Jerry's, non-fat milk solids, graham crackers, pastry, science, math,The Global Poverty Project (17:18)
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Gates Foundation, poverty, Michael Trainer, Make Poverty History, Hugh Evans, Bono, Eddie Vedder, grassroots, Prime Minister, foreign aid, Australia, Global Citizen Festival, The Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Neil Young, development, Global Fund for Education, Afghanistan, documentaries, Live Below the Line, poverty line, extreme poverty, justice, social media, bulk, ramen, rice, local, the food movement,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
"I was doing the whole farm to table thing in the 1980's in Milwaukee, WI. At that time, if you told somebody that you and your sous chef drove out to get roadside asparagus with a pig in the back of your van, [customers] wouldn't want to eat it. If you were doing farm to table, you were just weird!" [08:00]
"There are 50 million people that are so food insecure that they don't have money for food that allows them to live a healthy lifestyle. 1 in 4 children are living in poverty in this country." [21:00]
"Subsidies that go to processed food and big ag support the type of mechanization that actually eliminates jobs." " [28:00]
--Michel Nischan on "the business of The Business"
