Local Podcasts
Plant People: The Periodic Table of Food
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May 3, 2025
New to WCNY is Plant People from the New York Botanical Garden. NYBG’s CEO & President, Jennifer Bernstein, connects the dots between nature and humanity through lively conversations with plant scientists and curators, gardeners and naturalists, and other experts.
In the second episode of season two, Dr. Alex McAlvay, Assistant Curator at NYBG’s Center for Plants, People, and Culture, and Dr. John de la Parra, Director of the Global Food Portfolio at the Rockefeller Foundation, speak with Jennifer about the problems in modern agriculture (like monocrops) that are threatening our food security worldwide. Together, they’ll share some of the ways that historical farming methods might help solve these problems, diversifying our daily menu and making our food system more resilient against climate change.
NYBG’s Plant People is produced by PRX Productions and NYBG, including Senior Producer Genevieve Sponsler, who also works at WCNY.
