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Tips on growing backyard fruits in Florida
08/22/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: farming, Gardening, food, sustainable living
Our guests were Paul Zomoda a member of the Tampa Rare Fruit Council and Debbie Butts Co-Producer of the SL Program. We talked about a variety of issues concerning backyard fruit trees, vines, bushes, etc. With the recent freeze we talk about cold-tolerant fruiting plants, and some that might require more cold temps than we have in our area. Paul talked about his present passion growing grapes and wine making. The guests cover where to find more information and books on the topic. Visit the R...
Be the first to commentSmall farms under threat from the FDA in "Farmageddon" listen
08/12/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Farmageddon, agriculture, FDA, USDA, food, farming, farms, Organic food, Organic, organic farming, organic gardening
Federal and state laws can create hurdles for small farmers, who face raids and arrests for such things as selling raw milk to customers. A new film, called Farmageddon, documents the struggles of independent farmers. Hundreds of people attended sold out screenings in Tampa.
Many viewers were shocked to find that all over the United States, federal food regulators are shutting down businesses, throwing fresh food in the garbage, and raiding families’ homes; ...
2 commentsPreview of the film Farmageddon
08/08/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Farmageddon, farming, Gardening, food
On today’s Sustainable Living Program we hosted the producer of the documentary film Farmageddon, which brings to light incidences of government interference into our ability to produce and purchase healthy foods for our families. Kristin Canty joined us by phone, while our local chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Sarah Pope, was in the studio to discuss the new film. Farmers and buying clubs across the county are being targeted by the government for providing raw milk and dai...
Be the first to commentGrowing food for hungry citizens in Hernando County listen
07/22/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: poverty, food, volunteering, Hernando County, community gardens, Gardening
Access to healthy food can be difficult around the world, and here in the Tampa Bay area. A workshop will address the growing hunger problem in Hernando County.
The plan is to create awareness of the unsettling poverty situation in Hernando and other counties in Florida. According to Green World Path Inc., a large number of people in Hernando especially are struggling because they cannot afford to feed themselves and their ...
Be the first to commentCommunity gardens grow in Tampa Bay listen
07/14/11 Aaron DalleyWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: community gardens, St. Petersburg, Gardening, food
Community gardens have been sprouting up across Tampa Bay for the last few years. At one in South St. Petersburg, some of the local and global benefits of urban gardens are evident.
The Bartlett Park Community Garden in St. Petersburg has been in-bloom for 3 years now and counts tomatoes, black-eyed peas and a variety of herbs among its seasonal offerings. Ashley Spalding has a plot there and has also been helping organize the garden since last fall. She says what make this and other commu...
1 commentsSix more Orlando Food Not Bombs arrests listen
06/17/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: food not bombs, Orlando, food
On Wednesday Orlando police arrested six more people in Lake Eola Park for sharing food with the hungry. That brings the total number of people arrested in conjunction with the Orlando Food Not Bombs events to twenty-one. This comes a week after there was talk of compromise between Food Not Bombs and the city. Keith McHenry is co-founder of Food Not Bombs. He said the city doesn’t look like it’s going to budge.
Fast-forward to Wednesday, when the group conducted its regular food-sharing in...
Be the first to commentLocal sustainability activists
05/30/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: permaculture, food, sustainability
Our very special guests on today’s program were two of the best local sustainable living activists. The founder of Code Green Community, a green transitions group, Eric Steward and a teacher with Fire of Hope, a permaculture design group, Matt Fahy, both joined the show. Matt talked about our local area and how it’s very similar to where human civilization started and the diversity of human diets. Eric talked about the Transitions Movement based on Rob Hopkins book “Transitions”. Eric’s webs...
Be the first to commentLocal Permaculture
05/02/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: farming, organic, organic farming, food, permaculture, fishing, grouper, conservation, Ocean Conservancy
To start today’s program the Deputy Director of the Ocean Conservancy’s Fish Conservation Program Libby Fetherston join the program to talk about new limits on Grouper fishing in the Gulf. Their will be a public meeting at the Carlyon Hilton in St Pete on May 3 starting at 6:30 PM. To look at the agenda you can check out the www.oceanconservacy.org web site.
Next up a local Permaculture Design Robert Segundo join the program to talk about some general pri...
Be the first to commentBees, fermented food & eating local
04/04/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, organic gardening, food, sustainability, eating locally, bees, honey, fermentation
On today’s Sustainable Living program our first guest was Rebecca “The Bee Keeper” Conroy. She’s a bee keeper and food fermentor, and this month The Tampa Bay Beekeepers are having their annual bee workshop at Upper Tampa Bay Park on Saturday April 17 starting a 9 a.m. Rebecca successfully has bees in urban areas of Pinellas and says in this setting they do better than in natural areas. She talked about some of the basic of beekeeping as hive cost, aggressive bees and the benefits of eating ...
Be the first to commentVegetable Gardening
03/07/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, organic gardening, food, sustainability
Our guests on today’s program were all local vegetable gardeners. The farm manager from Sweetwater Organic Farm in west Tampa, Roberto Saenz; owner of Scotty’s Produce in northern Polk County, Jeff Campbell, and bio-intensive northeastern Hillsborough County farmer, Tom Carroll, all joined the show to answer local gardening questions.
Scotty teaches vegetable gardening at his place and will be starting new classes soon. You can find out more at the [B...
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