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Dr. Peter H. Wood on Rice and the Reshaping of South Carolina
Fields - February 02, 2022 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow did rice become a very commonly grown, rock-star grain in many parts of the world? What is the legacy of rice-growing in South Carolina, specifically? How has rice reshaped wetlands—and cultures? Following up on our conversation with Dr. Edda Fields-Black regarding the rice and the West Afri...
Urban Farmers: The Book, with Writer Mónica R. Goya
Fields - January 27, 2022 21:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFrom rooftop beekeeping to underground mushroom farms, the new photo-driven book Urban Farmers (Text by Mónica R. Goya and photos and editing by Valery Rizzo, gestalten, 2021) explores what farming looks like today in cities around the world. Writer Mónica R. Goya takes us through her investigat...
Dr. Edda Fields-Black on Rice, the Legacy of African Slavery, and Symphony as History
Fields - January 20, 2022 19:49 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow did knowledge of grains from West Africa shape rural lands and cities in North America? Why has it taken so long for historians to address the agricultural knowledge work of enslaved persons? Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to dis...
Evan Marks of The Ecology Center on Fostering Local Farm Hubs
Fields - January 13, 2022 19:38 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe speak with Evan Marks, founder of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano (Orange County), CA. Evan is a first-generation farmer who has practiced agroforestry in Nigeria and Ghana. For the past several years, he has devoted himself to fostering agroecological, community-focused agriculture...
Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers on Art, Seeds, and Public Space
Fields - January 06, 2022 22:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow does grain cultivation relate to urban agriculture? How can growing food in cities function as art? As education? Why do so many people love flatbread? Amy Franceschini, founder of Futurefarmers, joins the Fields team to discuss these and other aspects of her work. We also talk about seed ba...
Tyrean Lewis and Reversing Food Apartheid Through Urban Ag
Fields - December 30, 2021 20:49 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow does one commercial urban farm—Heru Urban Farming in St. Louis, Missouri—grow food for a community? Why did its founder and CEO, Tyrean Lewis, start down this path? We interview Tyrean about his familial connection to the land and to giving back to his community, how he pursued urban agric...
Season Two Teaser!
Fields - December 15, 2021 20:36 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEnjoyed Season One of Fields? Get ready for another crop of episodes, this time featuring co-host Allie Wist (RPI). Allie is an artist-scholar and working on a Media Arts PhD focusing on food and the Anthropocene. In this teaser episode, Allie joins Wythe Marschall (NYU Stern, Center for Sustain...
Season Two Sneak Peek!
Fields - December 15, 2021 18:30 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this sneak peek, hear just a snippet of a great story told by Amy Franceschini, Founder of Futurefarmers, about the Lykov family’s hardships in rural Russia, a single grain of rye, and how agriculture-focused artists are making connections between rural grains and urban education today. Full ...
Season Two is Coming Soon!
Fields - December 10, 2021 15:45 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSeason Two of Fields is just around the corner. Fields isn't just for farmers or foodies, it's for anybody who eats food. We talk to guests involved in urban agriculture, including many growers, and we ask why they're so passionate about growing food in cities all over the United States in the w...
Mayoral Candidate Kathryn Garcia Talks Urban Ag
Fields - May 14, 2021 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow will Garcia’s ambitious green infrastructure plans promote urban farming in NYC? The Fields team reached out to all of the major candidates for mayor of New York regarding their urban agriculture plans. Kathryn Garcia gave us an hour of her time to discuss her highly relevant background as ...
Alex Rewagan: Craft Cannabis
Fields - April 09, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow will cannabis legalization play out in different cities? Will legalization give rise to a craft weed industry? With cannabis laws fluctuating every year, Melissa and Wythe have a lot of questions about the home-growing of this popular plant, its regulation by the government, and its use by ...
Prepping with Delicious Microbes
Fields - April 02, 2021 14:52 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat are ways that the pandemic is nudging us to work with delicious microbes?” During a time when antibacterial soaps and wipes are flying off shelves, why are people cultivating microbes at home? Melissa Metrick (NYU Urban Farm Lab/Nutrition and Food Studies Department) and Wythe Marschall ta...
Alexis Mena: Universe City and Afro-Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Fields - March 26, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow are Universe City and Grow Brownsville helping community members grow their own food, invent their own technologies, and push back against gentrification? In this episode, Melissa and Wythe learn about the inspiring farm-tech co-op Universe City from one of its founders—multidisciplinary fa...
Candace Thompson: Foraging in Cities
Fields - March 19, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow can we learn to forage in cities—and use Instagram to get to know the living world around us? Artist, organizer, urban forager, and social media ninja Candace Thompson (Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet) joins Wythe and Melissa to dig into a variety of practical and visionary topics ab...
Maya Kutz: Urban Ag and Mutual Aid
Fields - March 12, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratings“What’s it like, farming on a roof next to a jail in Brooklyn during a pandemic? How have urban farms responded to the pandemic?” Melissa and Wythe catch up with their friend Maya Kutz, greenhouse manager at the Brooklyn Grange’s newest rooftop farm in Sunset Park. Maya is an experienced grow...
Victory Gardens and Teaching Urban Farming Over Zoom
Fields - March 05, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLong-time farmer, gardener, and educator Melissa Metrick (manager, NYU Urban Farm Lab, and adjunct professor in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at NYU) joins host Wythe Marschall (research associate, Cornell University) as a co-host to explore different visions for the future of growin...
Penny McBride and Farming as a Second Chance
Fields - February 26, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow did you come to start farms that employ people with different abilities and people exiting the prison system? Vertical farming pioneer and industry leader Penny McBride (COO, Second Chances Farm) joins Wythe and Melissa to discuss her career, working with farmhands from nontraditional backgr...
Meat Breweries: Cell Agriculture
Fields - February 19, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat is cellular agriculture, and why would anyone want to “brew” meat? We asked these questions and many others of Meera Zassenhaus—Communications and Media Manager at New Harvest, an organization promoting cellular agriculture, or growing tissue in a lab—and Garrett Broad, a professor at Fordh...
Drew Demler, Community Growing, and Growing Community
Fields - February 12, 2021 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat's it like, farming at the Texas State Fair... during a pandemic? Drew Demler is the head grower at Big Tex Urban Farms, which stands on the grounds of the Dallas State Fair. Drew joins Melissa and Wythe to talk about starting a farm in the middle of a giant concrete carnival. He talks about...
‘Shrooms! Indoors, Foraged, and Friendly
Fields - February 05, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhy are mushrooms so popular recently, and who is growing them—and searching for them in the wild—in New York City? To find out, we interviewed a whole bunch of fungi-focused folks. These interviews happened a couple of years ago, so this episode is technically from the vault—but it’s aged well!...
Allie Wist and the End of Restaurants
Fields - January 29, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat will our diets be like in the future due to climate change? How will restaurants change due to the pandemic, rising inequality, and an increasing commitment on behalf of eaters to local food and ethical production? Artist, photographer, radio host, all-around smarty-pants, and friend of the...
“Phantom” and Spicy Tomatoes
Fields - January 22, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhy does it matter what a specific kind of tomato is named—or who named it? Picking up the theme of seeds, history, representation, and changes to the land, Melissa and Wythe chat with tomato wizard Steph Gaylor of Invincible Summer Farms on Long Island about the birth of the modern seed industr...
Kevin Espiritu and “Epic” Home Gardening
Fields - January 15, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhy is now the perfect time to start a garden? The energetic and inspiring Kevin Espiritu—the “Epic Gardener” himself—joins Melissa and Wythe to tell us why, drawing from his own journey from successful professional poker player to plant-obsessed square-foot gardener and social media expert. He ...
Seeds and Time Travel
Fields - January 08, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow are seeds gender-defying time travelers? Subscribe to Fields and find out! In our first story, Melissa and Wythe talk to plant-focused artists Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of the Next Epoch Seed Library and to Ken Greene, expert seed breeder and seed librarian. We explore how different seeds...
Coming Soon, From HRN: The Unfinished Story of Urban Agriculture
Fields - December 07, 2020 15:24 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFields brings you the stories of people who are working in urban agriculture—for money, for fun, to feed the hungry, and for entirely other reasons. In each episode, hosts Melissa Metrick and Wythe Marschall delve into different foods grown in cities. Moreover, we investigate the whys behind get...
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