The Future of Urban Farming
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Francis Lam talks to Caleb Harper, Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at MIT Media Lab who believes that to feed the world, we need to fully embrace indoor urban farming. Rachel Khong takes us around the world to explore how different cultures prepare and eat eggs. America’s Test Kitchen puts grill tongs to the test. Patrick Comiskey explains the wonderful wines and storied past of the American Rhône. And we head to Miami for the latest in restaurant openings, and guess what? They’re happening in gas stations! Plus, Francis answers listener questions about foods that are fun for group preparation activities, and cooking Indian food with non-wheat flours.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- September 8, 2017 (originally aired)
- June 8, 2018 (rebroadcast)
- August 31, 2018 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years. |
| 0:05.0 | But using Canva was a really good one. |
| 0:08.0 | Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale. |
| 0:13.0 | They looked good. |
| 0:15.0 | Really, really good. |
| 0:17.0 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car. |
| 0:24.5 | Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks, Canva. |
| 0:31.4 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:38.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:44.4 | their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:54.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 1:06.1 | It's The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:10.5 | the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm Francis Lamb. |
| 1:22.3 | School gardens, community vegetable patches, fish farms and tanks, the urban farming movement |
| 1:30.1 | takes all kinds of forms. |
| 1:32.2 | And there are so many great things that happen when people grow food in cities. |
| 1:35.8 | There are educational opportunities, you use less energy and transport, the plants help clean |
| 1:40.1 | the air, and it just plain feels good for people to be closer to their food. |
| 1:44.9 | But scientist Caleb Harper believes that indoor urban farming can do something more. |
| 1:49.5 | It can actually create the best tasting, most nutritious, least energy-intensive crops anywhere. |
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