Urban Farming

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Allen tells us how he feeds 10,000 people a year from a three-acre farm in the poorest part of Milwaukee. We talk to Amy Bentley, author of Inventing Baby Food. Adam Leith Gollner explored Abruzzo, Italy, which he says is "hidden in plain sight," and Barbara Mazur discovered The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook in the rare book room at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Sterns share their soul food picks -- in Orlando, Florida.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 17, 2015 (originally aired)
July 8, 2016 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.0	It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media.
0:36.4	I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper.
0:38.1	You know how you stumble on people when you travel that simply make the trip?
0:42.9	Well, on a trip through Abruzzo, Italy, journalist Adam Leith Golner met a man who was a gold mine.
0:49.5	The Baron Luigi Cataldi Madonna is a winemaker whose family has been making wine since time immemorial.
0:59.4	He was this wonderful character.
1:03.8	He said, everything we do comes back to the seasonal movement of herds and flocks of sheep and goat up and down the mountains.
1:14.1	And the second he said that, it was like, oh, okay, that's what we came here to learn.
1:19.4	The Hills of Abruzzo, inventing baby food, and you, this hour on the splendid table.
1:35.8	Music This hour on the Splendid Table. It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media,
1:40.3	The Show About Life's Appetites.
1:42.8	I'm Lynne Rosetta Caspers.
1:57.5	Thank you. The Show About Life's Appetites. I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. Will Allen has proved without a doubt that city farms can work, big time.
2:03.2	He's the founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., which is recognized as a preeminent example of successful urban agriculture in America and now around the world.
2:16.1	Twenty-plus years ago, he started an urban farm in a vacant lot on
2:20.1	Milwaukee's north side. It was one of the poorest parts of the city. Now it feeds 10,000 people a year.
2:27.7	That project earned him a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he's gone on from there to serve as a member of the Clinton Global
2:35.2	Initiative, and in 2010, he was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people.
2:43.1	Well, he's written a book about his work, The Good Food Revolution, Growing Healthy Food, People,
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