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On the third episode of Hot Grease: Nicole welcomes Yonette Fleming to the studio to discuss the Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Bed-Stuy. Also, don't miss this week's Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books.
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Yonette Fleming and the Hattie Carthan Community Garden (8:15)
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access to fresh food, District 36, Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant, definition of a food desert, food desert=limited or no access to fresh food, 1/3 of residents live in poverty, intersection between low rates of consumption of healthy foods and high disease rates, Michelle Obama and farmers' market by The White House, Hattie Carthan Community Garden has been operating since 1991, how do we define health?, Shirley Chislom, Chislom 72, Shola Lynch, New York City election 2009,Community-Building Farming Ventures (12:45)
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Yonette Fleming, Hattie Carthan Community Garden, the story behind the garden's inception, Hattie Carthan was an activist and environmentalist, Carthan had radical ideas for change in Bed-Stuy, home to fifty fruit-bearing trees, very active community garden, health beyond machines and drugs, food beyond corn flakes and corned beef, Yonette's other community-building ventures, Yonette: the planet is my mandate, Yonette has tended to herb garden at Hattie Carthan Garden for six years, Hattie Carthan Farmers' Market-now housed on a piece of land that was once an abandoned lot, Carthan Garden now considered a farm, markets run through November 7th., harvest chard collard greens sweet peppers sweet potatoes etc, this and every Saturday until November 7th bring foodstamps coupons and senior citizens' coupons and eat locally grown foods, Harvest Drum and Movement Circle, October 10th 11AM dedication and unveiling of mural, Hattie Carthan Garden measures roughly 2 acres, fruit bearing trees, greenguerillas.org, environmental groups,The Hot Five with Crystal Bobb-Semple of Brownstone Books (9:05)
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five things on fire in the food movement, independant bookstores are a dying breed, Crystal's Hot Five reads, Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, The Sneaky Chef, how to pack kids meals with nutritious ingredients, Food and Wine 2009 Cookbook, www.brownstonebooks.com, info@brownstonebooks.com, Brownstone Books 409 Lewis Avenue Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry, The Moosewood Cookbook, Molly Katzen, Lucinda Scala Quinn,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
