Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week[trip4food.blogspot.com]
Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week[trip4food.blogspot.com]
The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there’s not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn’t use soil. Instead he’s growing plants using fish and circulating water. It’s called aquaponics- a gardening system that combines hydroponics (water-based planting) and aquaculture (fish farming). It’s been hailed as the future of farming: it uses less water (up to 90% less than traditional gardening), doesn’t attract soil-based bugs and produces two types of produce (both plants and fish). Aquaponics has become popular in recent years among urban gardeners and DIY tinkerers, but Maundu- who is trained in industrial robotics- has taken the agricultural craft one step further and made his gardens smart. Using sensors (to detect water level, pH and temperature), microprocessors (mostly the open-source Arduino microcontroller), relay cards, clouds and social media networks (Twitter and Facebook), Maundu has programmed his gardens to tweet when there’s a problem (ie not enough water) or when there’s news (ie an over-abundance of food to share). Maundu himself ran from agriculture in his native Kenya- where he saw it as a struggle for land, water and resources. This changed when he realized he could farm without soil and with little water via aquaponics and that he could apply his robotics background to farming. Today he runs Kijani Grows (“Kijani” is Swahili for green), a small … Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week
The biggest news this week in the craft beer world — aside from the announcement that Goose Island will finally! hit Florida shelves this year — is the concerted effort to get President Obama to release the super-top-secret recipe for his White House home brew Honey Ale. There’s even an official petition and everything, in case you’re in the full-disclosure camp: View and sign it here. Closer to home, a few South Florida bars will be doing their part this week to support the growing movement for local craft beers.
Tap 42 in Fort Lauderdale will throw down on Tuesday with a Drink Like a Local event starting at 7 p.m. Local brews will be on tap, including: Cigar City’s Cucumber Saison, Jai Alai IPA, and Good Gourd Imperial Pumpkin Ale; Native Thunderhead Red; and Tequesta’s Gnarly Barley, California Common, American Farmhouse, and Belgian Dubbel. They’ll also feature beers from rising star Due South Brewing Co., who have been killing it lately in the local scene. A couple of speciality brews, like Cigar City Batch #69 Double Cream, also will be available in bombers.Â
Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week
Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in Dept. of Nutrition at NYU SPONSORED BY THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT WWW.EDIBLESCHOOLYARD.ORG WITH SUPPORT FROM STEPHEN SILBERSTEIN AND THE KNIGHT FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM LIVE STREAM SPONSORED BY BON APPETIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY INSTRUCTORS: MICHAEL POLLAN AND NIKKI HENDERSON Edible Education: The Politics of Food
Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week[trip4food.blogspot.com]
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