Urban Agriculture

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guests: Milan Kluko and Daniel Kluko Dickson and Vincent speak with Milan and Daniel Kluko, owners of Green Spirit Farms, a sustainable vertical farm in New Buffalo, Michigan. Links for this episode Green Spirit Farms Green Spirit Farms News Green Spirit Farms videos on Vimeo Letters read on UrbAg 8 Video of this episode - view at YouTube Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws  

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: James Cannon Dickson and Vincent speak with James Cannon, Chief of Horticulture at Green Farms A&M, about how his company produces food indoors. Links for this episode Green Farms A&M James Cannon on Green Farms (YouTube) Upright Farms, Inc. Photo credit: Andy LaValley, Sun-Times Media Letters read on UrbAg 8 Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent continue their discussion of the science of indoor farming. Links for this episode Soil Science Society of America Haber process (Wikipedia) Sky Greens Plantagon PlantLab Phillips LED Salad greens Brooklyn Grange Hydro-Stacker Growing plants upside-down Letters read on UrbAg 7 Dickson's pick Bog bodies of the Iron Age (Nova) Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws  

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming. Links for this episode Hydroponic root crops Nutrient film technology (Wikipedia) Aeroponics (Wikipedia) Aquaculture (NOAA) Pasona O2 Chlorophyll spectrum (Wikipedia) Peak phosphorus and food security (pdf) Omega Grow Systems Image credit: Kono Designs Letters read on UrbAg 6 Dickson's pick Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses Listener pick Christophe - Inquiring Minds podcast Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent discuss how the vertical farm concept was developed and where it stands today. Links for this episode Vertical farming (Wikipedia) Dickson on Colbert Report South Korea researches vertical farming Cary Fowler (Wikipedia) Commercial vertical farms Vertical farm in Scranton, PA Omega Garden hydroponics A bright future (HuffPo) Tower Garden aeroponics Letters read on UrbAg 5 Vincent's pick Big Ideas (YouTube) Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent talk about why and how farming practices will change. Links for this episode US drought monitor Drought maps, last 5 months Chongming County Thermocline (Wikipedia) Dr. Gene Likens Dickson's Pick The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent continue their brief history of farming with a discussion of farming after the Dust Bowl. Links for this episode Panel on climate change report (Slate) US and World population clock Luther Burbank (Wikipedia) Where does your food come from? (Mother Jones) US drought monitor Earth Observatory Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Image credit Dickson's Pick Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent discuss the effects on industrialization on the development of farming. Links for this episode History of agriculture (New World Encycl) Haber process (Wikipedia) Urea synthesis (Wikipedia) Plants need 18 elements (Cornell) The industrial revolution Crop indemnity maps (USDA) Image credit Dickson's Pick Photographs of Dorothea Lange Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson and Vincent launch their new podcast with a discussion of the early origins of farming. Links for this episode Newgrange (Wikipedia) Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia) Landsat Image credit Dickson's Pick Origins of agriculture Send your questions and comments to urbanag@urbanag.ws