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.

• 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

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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.

• 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

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent continue their discussion of the science of indoor farming.

• 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

Bog bodies of the Iron Age (Nova)

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.

• 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

Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses

Christophe - Inquiring Minds podcast

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent discuss how the vertical farm concept was developed and where it stands today.

• 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

Big Ideas (YouTube)

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent talk about why and how farming practices will change.

• US drought monitor
• Drought maps, last 5 months
• Chongming County
• Thermocline (Wikipedia)
• Dr. Gene Likens

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent continue their brief history of farming with a discussion of farming after the Dust Bowl.

• 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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent discuss the effects on industrialization on the development of farming.

• 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

Photographs of Dorothea Lange

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent launch their new podcast with a discussion of the early origins of farming.

• Newgrange (Wikipedia)
• Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)
• Landsat
• Image credit

Origins of agriculture

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