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Hot Grease - Episode 44 - Farming Concrete

First Aired - 08/23/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Hot Grease Nicole hosts Mara Gittleman to discuss her organization Farming Concrete. While community gardens are a much-touted solution to environmental, food, and animal welfare issues, there is a surprising dearth of information about the amount of green gardens in NYC. Farming Concrete aims to gather all possible info about the city's gardens to help sustain current gardens and start new ones as efficiently as possible. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a culinary mainstay in NYC for over 55 years.

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Hot Grease Introduction: Farming Concrete (11:29)

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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete, Mara's Defining Moment, Tufts University, research in Univeristies didn't involve people enough, Mara is from Jersey, Mara grew up between two highways, Mara studied urban agriculture systems in Ethiopia, displacing people into high-rises and condos destroys a community's food system, deforestation in Haiti, trading jobs for the ability to grow food, Farming Concrete is a grass roots organization combining research and communities, GrowNYC, holes in data related to community gardens, putting research into the hands of community gardens empowers them, monetizing food grown, approximating greenhouse gas emissions,

Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete (13:04)

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Erik Bellsford is the other half Farming Concrete, if you have a fall harvest Farming Concrete has scales for you, data for community gardens, first time that anyone has measured the amount of food being produced in community gardens, there are 484 gardens in New York City, LandTrust, Community Garden survey, only a fifth of gardeners are using the internet, older gardeners did all the initial legwork and have all the knowledge, maps are a great tool for communication, collard greens are the most popular green, 78.9 percent of gardens have it, 77.6 percent of gardens are growing lettuce, hearty kiwis, Bengali gardeners, fruit trees, figs, top two are apple trees and peach trees, 80% of the gardens have fig trees,

More with Mara Gittleman (9:13)

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Roberta's, volunteer run project, next to nothing budget, critical mapping, Farming Concrete, all the employees visit gardens by foot, it only works because of the committed team, a few cities would like to copy this model, there is a tool kit being worked on, American Community Garden Association, Daniel Bowman Simon, building gardens will help kids learn and understand the benefits of eating healthy, this a new era of community and school gardens, there are many leaders in New York City, some are known nationwide and some only known on their block, Yonette Fleming, farmingconcrete.com, they need help mapping gardens!, get involved!, contact mara@farmingconcrete.com,

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