Day: November 20, 2012

Food Makers: Re:Farm the City

Food Makers: Re:Farm the City

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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This week on Food Makers we check in with Re:Farm the City, an international collective of hackers, designers, and farmers who create urban agriculture projects. Guests include Hernani Dias, founder of Re:Farm the City, and members Martin Garber from Spain and Max Kazemzadeh from Washington D.C.

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Food Makers: Country Hams!

Food Makers: Country Hams!

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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In this week’s episode of Food Makers we travel to south to talk about the art and science of the country ham. Guests include Sam Edwards III, owner of Edwards County Hams, and Nancy Newsom Mahaffey, owner of Col. Bill’s Newsom’s Aged Kentucky Country Ham.

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Food Makers: Food Preservation and Fermentation

Food Makers: Food Preservation and Fermentation

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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In this issue of Food Makers we dive into food preservation and fermentation. Guests include fermentation guru Sandor Katz, author of “The Art of Fermentation;” Camas Davis of the Portland Meat Collective, and Jordan Champagne of Happy Girl Kitchen.

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Food Makers: Modern Cuisine and Technology

Food Makers: Modern Cuisine and Technology

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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In this episode of Food Makers we explore the frontiers of modern cuisine. Guest include Jeff Potter, author or “Cooking for Geeks;” Dave Arnold, head of the French Culinary Institute’s culinary technology department; and Lisa Q. Fetterman, CEO of Nomiku, a home-use immersion circulator currently in production; and Wipop Bam Suppipat, Nomiku co-founder and designer.

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Food Makers: with Stett Holbrook, Senior Editor at MAKE Magazine

Food Makers: with Stett Holbrook, Senior Editor at MAKE Magazine

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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MAKE’s first bi-monthly Food Makers Hangout on Air (1st and 3rd Wednesday, 2pm Pacific). This week features John Robb (resilientcommunity.com), Dorn Cox and Severine Von Tscharner Fleming from FarmHacks, and Jordan Miller, a research bioengineer who prints out chocolate and sugar creations that he uses to provide templates for casting vascular networks and wireframes for living tissues.

More info:
John Robb, Resilient Communities, http://www.resilientcommunities.com/
Farm Hack: http://www.youngfarmers.org/farm-hack/
Jordan Miller: http://www.hive76.org/
Baricuda Sugar Extruder: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26343

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Learn Arduino From a Prodigy

Learn Arduino From a Prodigy

By Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty

DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term “makers” to describe people who enjoyed “hands-on” work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.

In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” through an initiative that honors Americans who are “doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.” At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.

Dougherty is the author of “Free to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Minds” with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.

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Schuyler St. Leger presented an “Arduino 101” session at the Desert Code Camp software developer conference, held in Arizona last weekend. A 12-year-old maker and member of HeatSync Labs Makerspace in Mesa, AZ, Schuyler is a quite simply a prodigy. Schuyler does a remarkably good job explaining Arduino and walking through the basics. His pacing […]

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