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First Aired - 04/16/2012 01:00PM
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This week on Let's Eat In, our hostess Cathy Erway talks with Chase Emmons of Brooklyn Grange and Tim O'Neal of Borough Bees. Our guests have teamed up to start a 30 hive apiary at the new Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Tune in to hear how Chase and Tim got their starts in beekeeping, the surprising demand for NYC honey, and the plans for Brooklyn Grange's apiary this season. Learn about bee genetics, and how Chase and Tim plan to breed bees that are adaptable to New York City's weather and conditions. In other words- local New York bees! Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Whole Foods.
"When I started keeping bees, I joined the local beekeeping organization and I was the youngest member by 60 years." -- Tim O'Neal on Let's Eat In
"You want cold winters so bees can make it through the winters. They'll go more dormant, so to speak. If they don't go dormant and they stay a little too active, they go through all their emergency food supplies, which is stored honey." -- Chase Emmons on Let's Eat In
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Brooklyn Grange in the Navy Yard (16:35)
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Chase Emmons, Tim O'Neill, apiary, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Grange, Rooftop Farm, Long Island City, beekeeping apprenticeship, Beekeeping, dariy, butcher, sustainable, honey, stinger, hives, wood polish, Roberta's, New York's Honey Festival, Sixpoint, local honey, Bobo, pollen, nectar, organism, sugar, Burton, insects, livestock, absconding,Honey Coffee and Date Pizza (18:18)
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bees, breeding, local genetics, New York City, queen bees, drones, eugenics, Brooklyn Grange Bees, BQE, Kickstarter, coffee, honey tasting, black coffee, pies, politically incorrect pies, date meal, homemade pizza, dough, crust, cinnamon buns, milk, anchovies, honey flavor, urban bees, pesticides, wildflower, cherry blossom, maple, dandelions, Hayseed's Big City Farm Store, blog,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/15/2010 12:00PM
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Bernie Wides & Carol A. Butler continue last week's discussion on bees.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Bees & Honey (13:26)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, a continuation on bees, Carol A. Butler, swarms, Why Do Bees Buzz?, question and answer format, the sound of buzzing comes from the vibration of the bees body, sometimes noises are used to guide nest mates, quacking noises, the Queens also toots, Queen piping, produced by rapid contractions of the thoracic muscles, honey, in the winter beekeepers add honey, honey keeps the bees alive, honey pulls moisture out of the air, when you bake with honey it remains moist, creates an unfavorable environment for bacteria and mold, honey is acidic, Egyptians used honey, toxic honey, do not feed honey to babies under 1 year old, medicinal honey, Whole Foods Market,Bee Stings & Killer Bees! (14:27)
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mild burns heal faster with honey, bee stings, allergies, multiple bee stings can cause shock, Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, a stinging bee release an alarm pheromone, bees are not aggressive, they usually sting near a hive, they lose their stinger and die when the sting a human, they are attracted to the human face and ears, they cue to the carbon dioxide that we exhale, some beekeepers can build up a tolerance to the venom, muscles in the abdomen thrust the stinger into its target, they sting if there is a disturbance or apparent danger to the nest, killer bees, they are Africanized honey bees, Brazil, hybrid bees, they spread North at a rate of a mile a day, they have been seen as far south as Argentina, in June 2005 they were found in southwest Arkansas, 2007 in New Orleans, there are also sting less bees, most are mild mannered, some of them bite when threatened, they fight viciously over food, some excrete acidic saliva, another species enters the eyes ears or nose and buzzes loudly, Cyprian honey bees, they breathe through holes in the exoskeleton, Japanese honey bee, they group together and use a thermal strategy to burn invasive hornets to death,How To Avoid Bee Stings (13:41)
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how can you avoid being stung?, avoid honeybee nests, if a bee is nearby you should ignore it, American Museum of Natural History, butterfly conservatory, butterflies are trying to mate, bees are all business, they only look for nectar, perfume does not attract them, they only want a certain type of consistency of sweetness, their whole role as adults is to reproduce,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/15/2009 08:00PM
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Butt Ugly and the Criminal; Discussions with Curtis B. Wayne, Manuel Saez, and Richard Thrush on "Ugly" design. http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com/
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Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder; Ugly Design or Uncomfortable Beauty? (28:17)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, architect, design, Burning Down the House, built environment, Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, interior design elements, Richard Sapper, Tizio lamp, MOMA, Richard Thrush, over fifty and less than dead, icon of good taste, Eames rocker, polypropylene, Herman Miller, Bucky Fuller, Frank Llyod Wright chairs, Garrett Wright Field, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, monument to a designers ego, comfort versus statement, looks aren't everything, Manuel Saez, Wave Hill, Stokowski, uncomfortable, indisputably ugly, it sucks and blows, painful to see, clutter overstimulates and bores, strictly functional value, Walmart, designing for the everyman, iPhone, function over form, simple and nice, retro in a disturbing way, Dieter Rams, Braun travel clock, over-simplification, beautiful object, objectivity, favorite ugly phones, American's like the clam design, Europeans prefer stick phones, looks like a split turd, free is best, Tracfone, pay as you go, functional and petite,Ugly Designs by Curtis and Studio Guests Manuel Saez & Richard Thrush (22:43)
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Burning Down the House, Manuel Saez, Richard Thrush, Talking Heads, Heritage Radio Network, Men from U.N.C.L.E., ugly Bic pen, cheap pens, ugly is sometimes iconic, bug zapper, elongated Japanese lantern, killing rods, architects have subtle taste, cost versus design, recycled plastic is always black, decision based on cost, cheaper is better, does the job, not styled, looks better on paper, designing in a capsule, design for the caste system, Home Depot, universal tool, some tools are hired help, purposes that design objects serve, gas cylinders suck, Human Scale, Freedom Chair, 20 year gas cylinder, impossible compromise, masturbatory design concept, product design has more foresight, always die hard in architecture, presenting the paradigm, best presentation wins, Pritzker Prize for bullshitters, architecture, architect, design, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, plasticine, Braun, Stinger,The Visual Victims Unit; Criminaly Ugly Design. (10:00)
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architecture, architect, design, Burning Down the House, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, Manuel Saez, Richard Thrush, hate on, design crimes, Phillipe Stark, famous for the outrageous, Beauty and the Beast, Torscher chandelier, Joe Moinian, chandelier, sell the experience, Goldman Sachs, Design Authority, meed keeps happy, hate music, Law and Order, cars are hateful, love outweighs failure, Ducati, Fiat, Dalai Lama,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
