Rent a Falcon, Save Your Vineyard! The New Airborne Security Guards

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Falcons are smart, fast and lethal––but they can also be a farm’s greatest defense against losing an entire harvest. Master falconer Alina Blankenship tells us about protecting fields of grapes and blueberries with her flock of highly-skilled birds, from the falcon that operates like a jet-fighter to the hawk that patrols crops like a bouncer. Plus, Kim Severson reports on Gen Z’s “milk shame” and what the dairy industry is trying to do about it; Alex Aïnouz pursues perfect creme brûlée; and we learn to make a vegetarian Carbonara where you won’t miss the meat. (Originally aired July 20, 2023).

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0:00.0	Hey Milk Street Radio listeners for our Thanksgiving episode this year.
0:03.7	I'm taking your calls with Jet Tila and Cheryl Day.
0:07.2	From sides to Pie send it's your biggest Thanksgiving cooking questions.
0:11.3	Email us at
0:15.0	again please send your Thanksgiving questions to questions at milkstreet radio.com
0:21.3	and we'll be in touch. Thanks.
0:25.0	This is Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host Christopher Kimball.
0:31.0	You know it's time to harvest grapes in the Willemid Valley when the
0:35.8	starlings arrive. The sky turns black. It's like, you know, the orcs of mortar.
0:40.8	These birds are a big problem for winemakers. An entire crop could be
0:44.8	destroyed in less than a day. That's where a Lena Blankenship and her team of
0:49.0	falcons come in. When I'm looking up at 20,000 starlings I put up a saker that might be similar to my jet fighter and then I pull out a Harris's
0:59.2	Hawk because the birds think that they can go stage in the tree line and I'm able to bring him out and control the tree lines like a bouncer.
1:10.0	Later on to the show we'll meet the Falcon standing guard over our farms and
1:14.2	vineyards but first we're waiting into a controversial topic and that's milk.
1:18.7	New York Times Food Correspondent Kim Seaberson joins me now to break down the state of the milk industry,
1:25.0	including why Gen Z doesn't just drink less milk.
1:28.0	They actually find it embarrassing.
1:30.0	Like you imagine you're on a date with something on the first date and the order of glass of the milk.
1:35.0	Oh my God. Like I feel like that's very polarizing like that's like you know you're either going to like get married or you know it's never going to be another day.
1:42.0	Like that's a pretty good way to test the waters though.
1:45.5	Like if you're a milk person?
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