Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - a young Barre-based entrepreneur runs a company that supports recycling and 3-D printing, and local farmers are looking to saffron as an additional crop.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Forbes Magazine put Barre-based entrepreneur Tyler McNaney on a “30 under 30” list late last year for his company, Filabot. The company builds equipment for 3-D printing that recycles plastic (including plastic bottles) into filament for 3-D printers. He’ll talk about how 3-D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing, and how Filabot is working to make it more environmentally friendly.
www.filabot.com

Vermont’s climate is colder and darker than that of traditional saffron-growing regions, but with the help of greenhouses, could it be a profitable crop for our farms or even backyards? UVM Extension sees enough promise in it that they are organizing a workshop on saffron growing on Friday, March 16. UVM Research Professor Margaret Skinner will talk about growing saffron, and UVM graduate student Agrin Davari will tell how saffron is used in almost every meal in her native Iran.
http://www.UVM.edu/%7Eentlab/Saffron/Saffron.html

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

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