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First Aired - 05/02/2013 12:45PM
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Learn how to harvest greens on this week's Rooftop Farming Update with Ben Flanner. Ben chats with HRN's Erin Fairbanks to talk about the tools and techniques of harvest. Learn what leaves to pick, and how to rinse them in order to make a perfect salad blend!
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Picking Leaves (9:05)
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harvesting, greens, blends, leaves, growing bed, soil, serrated knife, stems, decay, lettuce, rinse, washing greens, dust, dirt, salad spinner, moisture,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/16/2009 04:00PM
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Severine chats with Rusty Davis live from The Golden Gate Bridge! Rusty subverts conventional wisdom on topics ranging from permaculture, reforestation, biodiesel and veggie oil.
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Severine Fleming and Rusty Davis on Plowing and Tilling (5:21)
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keyline plowing, global warming, soil restoration, water, water sheds, farmer, drought, compacting, root systems, emerging trees, plows, modelar plow, soil disruption, water infiltration, organic,Impact of Agriculture on Soil (1:50)
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Northern California, hillsides, grasslands, pasture, indian paintbrush, poppies, soil impact, water, infiltration, filtration, planting, silt is bad,Soil Restoration (5:01)
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veggie diesel, wildlife, ecosystem, diversity, good pay, soil business, diesel,Bicycle to Biodiesel: The Life and Times of Rusty and Severine (5:00)
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pan piper, veggie oil, dirt bikes, permaculture, bicycle,The Basics of Veggie Oil (7:53)
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veggie, oil, engine workings, carbon footprint, fuel, peanuts, petroleum, diesel,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/25/2009 04:00PM
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On this week' Farm Report, Heather and Lorenzo interview Ken Klemm of The Buffalo Guys. Ken lets us in on his Experimental Farming Project, a program designed to uncover avant garde farming techniques to improve the quality and vitality of American soil.
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The Advantages of Polyculture (9:50)
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Ken Klemm, The Buffalo Guys, experimental farming, no till polyculture, polyculture: planting several different types of seeds, monoculture: single seed planting, nitrogen fixing plants, canola, radish, turnip, benefits of planting multiple species together, greater results and healthier soil with multiple species planted, corn needs a lot of nitrogen, vetch produces a lot of nitrogen, corn and vetch's symbiotic relationship, chemical fertilization put a stop to research in the field of natural fertilization, no-till aspect, cover-cropping, tilling reduces soil fertility, micro organisms, tilling sets soil back,Cover-Cropping: Improving the Quality of American Farmland (11:50)
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using Facebook as a marketing tool, disconnect between rural and urban America, lack of knowledge among urbanites about where their food comes from, easy to influence the flavor of pork by feed, bison taste profiles less affected by changes in feed, Ken's experiments are directed at improving quality of land and improving fuel usage, moisture retention, cover-cropping, soil is a living organism, millions of organisms per square inch of soil, predator organisms, plants are what feeds soil, with chemical farming practices microbes are not being fed properly, cover-cropping feeds soil microbes properly, reduce fuel usage, less time spent tilling, vegetable seeds, moving herds around, bison are harvesting crew for Ken's projects, commodity crop production, getting crop lands healthy again, if Ken decides to grow commodity crops he could without the advent of fertilizer, turning a meat farming operation into a commodity crop operation, corn, wheat, great potential for evolutions in ecological farming,The Difference Between Buffalo and Bison (11:51)
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Crop rotation, taste profiles, effect of feed on meat, nitrogen, carbohydrates, diet, age of animal, quality meat, buffalo versus bison, Cape Buffalo native of Africa, Water Buffalo native of India, Buffalo were one the most prolific grazing animals on earth, more buffalo then wilderbeasts, 60 million Buffalo roaming the earth at one point, Buffalo is more commonly known and referred to for marketing purposes, first Spanish explorers, Bison raising versus cattle raising, bison are hearty animals, predators are not an issue for bison, buffalo survived the last ice-age, buffalo were known to fend off saber tooth tigers and large bears, marketing is a challenge, irrigation issues, demand for bison is high supply is low,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
