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Episode 175: Stewart Borowsky

Episode 175: Stewart Borowsky

FromThe Farm Report


Episode 175: Stewart Borowsky

FromThe Farm Report

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week on The Farm Report, Stewart Borowsky (The Union Square Grassman) joins host Erin Fairbanks to talk about greens! A big topic of this weeks episode includes wheatgrass, including how Stewart grows, produces, harvests, and eventually creates the amazing wheatgrass juice that contains the health-benefiting nutrients we love. Also learn how Stewart learned to become a farmer, and ended up transitioning to becoming a wheatgrass producer in New York City. With wheatgrass production constantly growing and the summers weather heating up, learn how Stewart is also planting similar but more flexible greens, such as pea shoots, buckwheat greens, radish sprouts, and foods for pets! Wondering how to incorporate healthy greens into your diet? Listen to this weeks episode to learn more about how wheatgrass can benefit you today! This program has been sponsored by Fairway Market. Thanks to Cookies for todays music. Theres been a tremendous amount of marketing for wheatgrass, because it is such a unique food, and people are eager to find a solution to prevent disease. Wheatgrass is a very important part of good nutrition. [6:30] -- Stewart Borowsky on The Farm Report
Released:
Jul 11, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Farm Report is a show about the people, processes, and policies that shape how food is produced today. From the latest agricultural innovations to the day-to-day challenges of running a viable business growing vegetables and grazing cattle, host Lisa Elaine Held engages in conversations with farmers and farmworkers and the people who work alongside them—like chefs, researchers, activists, and investors. Expect from-the-field insights paired with real-world context as guests explore how producing fresh, delicious food relates to environmental and community sustainability, equality and justice, politics and policy, and better health.