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As pandemic relief funds (like PPP and EIDL) are exhausted, many small businesses are still in need of grants, loans, and other financial services. In this episode, produced in partnership with TD Bank, we discuss new rounds of relief available through the American Rescue Plan. Plus, there are myriad evergreen...

Native enterprises and nonprofits are working to ensure food sovereignty for their communities and neighbors. Land access and capital are key to this mission, and philanthropic grants are often a major source of funding. However, grant money often comes with many strings attached and reporting requirements that bog down the...

Today we talk with Bryce Oates of the Daily Yonder. If you have been paying attention, there has been a fair amount of new about the proposed relocation of the ERS and NIFA, two agencies within the USDA that deal with farming and grants. Moving the agencies from their DC...

What do a car company and a conservation organization have in common? Plenty. This week on Animal Instinct, host Celia Kutcher is on the line with Dr. John Rowden of the New York City Audubon and Toyota Togethergreen talking conversation, birds, and more. After the break, John explains how TogetherGreen...

Welcome to Everything's On the Table, a new weekly program produced by Food Systems Network NYC and HeritageRadioNetwork.org! Each week, hosts will examine the food policies that impact our everyday lives and that hang in the balance as New Yorkers go the polls this fall. This week, HRN's Erin Fairbanks...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks calls up Mary Peabody, the founding director of the Women's Ag Network and professor at the University of Vermont. Mary Peabody is a Community Economic Development Specialist with University of Vermont Extension, and the New Farmer project. Learn why women are not...

This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by registered architect and landscape architect, Susannah Drake of dlandstudio. Curtis and Susannah are discussing eco-friendly urban landscaping, and what landscape architecture can mean for New York City's protection from future storms like Hurricane Sandy. Hear about sanitation...

Buster Creek Farm owns 160 acres but farm about 800 now, 100% Angus/Hereford beef cattle. They mainly lease and restore busted dairy farms for hay, clover, etc. and normally run a herd of about 200, soon to be twice that. Just like Kinderhook and Grazin' Angus, they're in the fairly...

Have we lost our heritage through Orthodox Modernism? Curtis B. Wayne continues some of the themes explored on last week's discussion with Wilfried Wang. Listen as Curtis revisits the Cooper Union discussion and ties many previous ideas together on a passionate and solo episode of Burning Down the House. This...