Today on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen DeVito do their part to contribute to the "robots will take our jobs" story! Our guest: Rory Aronson, the creator of the FarmBot. This robot is installed above a planter box, before Raspberry Pi, a rudimentary (and cheap) computer...

Olivia Rathbone. This week on Sharp and Hot Emily and Anne are joined by Olivia Rathbone. Olivia manages the dynamic kitchen at Occidental Arts Ecology Center. Life-long farmer and cook, she orchestrates innovative and delicious meals inspired by seasonal produce from OAEC's gardens and orchards. She is the editor...

Composting and recycling at school isn't just about eco-friendly waste diversion. It also provides students with a powerful lesson in sound environmental practice that they'll carry with them for the rest of their lives. The message is simple: what comes from the earth can be returned to enrich it, so...

Welcome to the first episode of Nothing Urgent, hosted by Impose Magazine's Derek Evers and Gothamist's Chris Robbins. Derek and Chris call up urban entomologist Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann of Cornell University to talk about the 17-year periodical cicada. Learn more about the insect's life-cycle. Would Jody recommend eating a cicada...

Welcome to the first episode of Nothing Urgent, hosted by Impose Magazine's Derek Evers and Gothamist's Chris Robbins. Derek and Chris call up urban entomologist Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann of Cornell University to talk about the 17-year periodical cicada. Learn more about the insect's life-cycle. Would Jody recommend eating a cicada...

Ben Flanner calls Erin Fairbanks live from the Brooklyn Grange to talk about pests in urban farms. Hear how Ben has recently been dealing with two plant predators- pigeons and flea beatles! How do these two farm foes attack different crops? Pick up some strategies to keep birds and bugs...

Learn all about compost on this week's Rooftop Farming Update with Ben Flanner. Erin Fairbanks calls up Ben to talk about ideal compost ratios, and what you can toss into your compost pile. What qualifies as a 'green', and what would be considered a 'brown'? Find out where you can...

What are the differences between public and private gardening? This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Krieg are talking with Aly Fox, Head Gardener at Groundworks, Inc., and public garden designer, Ronda Brand. Hear about Aly and Ronda's backgrounds in horticulture, and how their training influenced...

On this week's Beer Sessions Radio, host Jimmy Carbone is talking about hops and alternative bittering agents in brewing. Ben Grainger of Bierkraft and Peter Kennedy of SimplyBeer.com are in the studio, talking about the hops that they grow at home, and how they incorporate them into their brewing processes...

David and Melinda Rowley, along with their daughter Sorrel, are the farmers at Monkshood Nursery and Gardens. David attended Hadlow College in England studying commercial horticulture while Melinda attended Cornell University and studied horticulture. Together, they started a potted herb nursery in 2001. Two years later, they leased an 82...