David Selman's guest appearances

David Selman

GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

What's Eric Eating

Ellen Polishuk

Mike Lewis

Elizabeth Leonard

Jennifer Smith

Patti Armbrister

David Salman

Infrastructure Banks

Shandy Carroll

Dushan Batrovic

Alethea Vasilas

Jill Blog

Pheobe Lyttle

Susan Harris

Nick Schneider

Lem Tingly

OwlTail

Jason Wishengrad

On today's podcast Eric is joined Felice Sloan to discuss the latest happenings from the Houston restaurant and bar scene including Ronnie Killen's new spot in Cypress, Finn Hall adds 4 new concepts one which is a returning concept from when Finn Hall first opened up, and the Barking Pig goes through a rebrand. In the Restaurants of the Week section Tony's is featured. In the Restaurants of the Week portion Eric is joined by Jason Wishengrad and David Selman of The Stand. Jason and David speak with Eric about what The Stand exactly, why bring The Stand to Houston, what sets The Stand apart from other restaurants, what they mean by serving American classics redefined, letting the customers have fun with their burger combinations, their respective paths to working with The Stand, getting to know Houston, setting up their supply chain, why The Woodlands fit the brand, how the first few weeks have gone, whether there could be more locations in Houston, recommendations for people coming in for the first time, and much more!   Follow Eric on Instagram and Twitter, plus check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com:  Killen's Barbecue Fires Up New Restaurant in Familiar Cypress Space Downtown Food Hall Heats Up with Bento Boxes, Crafty Burgers, and Cranky Carrots Lazybrook/Timbergrove Bar Rebrands Around 2 Things it Does Best: Steaks and Whiskey Shaquille O'Neal's Chicken Restaurant Plucks First Houston Location Ambitious New Sushi Restaurant Starring Tokyo-Trained Chef Makes a Splash in Bellaire Canadian Favorite Coffee &amp; Doughnut Shop Tim Hortons Now Open in Katy 

On today's podcast Eric is joined Felice Sloan to discuss the latest happenings from the Houston restaurant and bar scene including Ronnie Killen's new spot in Cypress, Finn Hall adds 4 new concepts one which is a returning concept from when Finn Hall first opened up, and the Barking Pig goes through a rebrand. In the Restaurants of the Week section Tony's is featured. In the Restaurants of the Week portion Eric is joined by Jason Wishengrad and David Selman of The Stand. Jason and David speak with Eric about what The Stand exactly, why bring The Stand to Houston, what sets The Stand apart from other restaurants, what they mean by serving American classics redefined, letting the customers have fun with their burger combinations, their respective paths to working with The Stand, getting to know Houston, setting up their supply chain, why The Woodlands fit the brand, how the first few weeks have gone, whether there could be more locations in Houston, recommendations for people coming in for the first time, and much more! Follow Eric on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ericsandler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/esandler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, plus check out some of his latest articles at <a href="http://houston.culturemap.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Culturemap.com</a>: <ul> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-22-22-killens-barbecue-restaurant-new-location-cypress-ronnie-killen-burro-bull/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Killen's Barbecue Fires Up New Restaurant in Familiar Cypress Space</a></li> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-25-22-finn-hall-downtown-food-hall-new-vendors-restaurants-craft-burger-pecking-order-maui-bento-box-cranky-carrot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Downtown Food Hall Heats Up with Bento Boxes, Crafty Burgers, and Cranky Carrots</a></li> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-24-22-ribeye-and-rye-new-restaurant-barking-pig-kristen-powell-lazybrook-timbergrove/#slide=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lazybrook/Timbergrove Bar Rebrands Around 2 Things it Does Best: Steaks and Whiskey</a></li> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-29-22-big-chicken-restaurant-houston-location-westchase-shaquille-oneal-shaq/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shaquille O'Neal's Chicken Restaurant Plucks First Houston Location</a></li> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-30-22-aya-sushi-new-restaurant-japanese-bellaire-yoshi-katsuyama-chris-morris/#slide=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ambitious New Sushi Restaurant Starring Tokyo-Trained Chef Makes a Splash in Bellaire</a></li> <li><a href="https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-31-22-tim-hortons-canadian-coffee-shop-doughnuts-houston-location-katy-now-open/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canadian Favorite Coffee &amp; Doughnut Shop Tim Hortons Now Open in Katy</a></li> </ul>

Episode 254 - Jason Wishengrad and David Selman of The Stand

It’s Tuesday, January 15, 2019. You must be doing something right? I can’t seem to get anyone to watch my videos. The one thing I have noticed lately is, we don’t really watch tv so in the evenings, what we do, we’re about done with our day around 8:30ish. We stream Youtube. Watching on TV you can’t interact but I get on the iPad and if I like their video or make a comment I get a lot more people who seem to be interested in my channel. You have like 35, 53  views, etc. I have like no views. 0 views at all. Watching others, I’ll have to try that. You have to be persistence. We’ve been doing it for a year and we’re only just getting somewhere. I see it as you’ve only been doing it for a year! Honestly it’s been the easiest gardening method I have ever learned!  Savvy Organics Farm YouTube Channel Savvy Organics Farm On Facebook Savvy Organcs Farm On Local Havest  Tell us a little about yourself. Sure, well basically I’ve been gardening most of my life since I was s little kid, life happens to you, and you have kids, we have 2 kids. We always have a family garden, nothing but raising a few vegetables for ourselves. The last few year with the kids out on our own. We have 5 acres, so we don’t need it for livestock and when the kids were in ag. October 2017. We kind of came up with the idea, what are we going to do with our land now? We’ve always been avid gardeners so we started .  market gardens CSA programs reasons they do it health benefits  1/2 acre and pasture next to our house basically ripped what are we doing Just watch YouTube at night Who do you feel like you’ve been watching that give you the most. The subjects range from homesteading to organic  gardening Some of our favorites. MI Gardener he’s a good one Justin Rhodes with the abundant permaculture vlog everyday they do everything  livestock and gardening  Living Traditions  homesteading raising animals and things  Well that’s  a good list. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Well, as a kid, growing up in town at my parents house, my dad just let me sort of get a small garden plot in the backyard. Other then some squash, IDK what  remember what I grew then.  My parents had a lake home and we had a 1/4 acre had a big garden there, always helping in that. Over all the years, raising our family and stuff, the importance of teaching your kids   where food comes from nutritional value of it  raise our kids responsibility  Good work ethic, things like that. So did they do 4H or FFA (Future Farmers of America)? We were involved with the FFA for all of my kids. We primarily raised Texas Long Horn show cattle. The kids earned scholarship money for college by doing that.  horses play days  little rodeos  Always had an active lifestyle, hunting and fishing as kids, my dad did that when we were kids. Are you from Texas, born and raised? I am, lived here all my life, here in the Dallas area. How did you learn how to garden organically? Over the years, but in the last few years more important! The older you get, you think. I’ve been putting this in my food, I wonder what that actually does? You read the labels and think, I can’t pronounce that why am I eating that? Sure! Vani Hari, the food babe just sent out an email this morning with all the weird things in Almond milk. Yeah, absolutely so many things in  We agree, other than for a holiday or something where we need it as an ingredient we pretty much only use almond milk. make it ourselves almond milk really easy The almonds:  get soaked ground up and put in a nut bag after ground up squeeze through nut bag  what comes out almond milk takes 10-15 minutes really easy almond butter which I love and a lot of the store bought things have a lot of additives butter is really easy roast almonds at about 350º Use a Vitamix to blend them into butter if they are a little dry add a little oil really goes a long way a lot less expensive then what you would buy in the store. Does it come out the texture of peanut butter? What we typically make is a little bit thicker add anything like a tasteless oil, avocado or sunflower oil something that doesnt’ have any flavor. You can thin it a little bit by adding oil to it consistency of buying anything that is processed food and all the additive things that go into them. I often wonder, is buying peanut butter and making a sandwich is that processed or does that count as home made? Or is that still processed if all the parts are processed but you put them together. I was just talking to Olivia who Rent Mason Bees about the bees pollinating the almonds.  my sons a bee keeper sent all of his hives for the winter leases the beehives to them for the almond bees have not had any luck with mason bees. She said their main goal is to spread them, they’re super pollinators and they’ll pollinate so much more then a honeybee, but they do require a bit of maintenance in the winter, they actually give them a bath, if you don’t clean out their homes, the pollen mites grow and grow and wipe out the bees. I’ve heard that they are such great pollinators  not as aggressive  don’t sting  IDK why we don’t have more of them. They say they’re everywhere maybe Idk know what I’m looking for I would love to know about them and get them on our place. I know she said that they ship different ones at different times of year. Maybe it was the wrong time of year or something. Maybe you’ll want to give that episode a listen to. Tell us about something that grew well this year. It’s pretty much winter right now a few things in the ground first greenhouse able to put up this past season  carrots spinach broccoli cauliflower  growing and doing pretty well. Over the season last year, the biggest things we had the most success  lettuces kale daikon radishes  I didn’t know about them until I started gardening. They are   amazing grow huge flavor is good in soups and salads  Really diverse. I didn’t know that you could saute radishes and in the beginning of the year before the beets etc were ready, and they were so good. Mike grew a lot of different colored giant radishes. I grew kale for the first time last year!´ first vegetable!  dinosaur kale blue dwarf kale garlic did well for us  I call it a green house, but it’s basically more like a hoop house not polycarbonate green colored plastic mesh that filters out some of the UV rays really inexpensive starting on a shoestring budget. challenging found this company here in Richardson, just north of us, fresco Delta Canopy Company greenhouses of all kind I found this greenhouse, that was like $400 I put it together one day, literally took maybe a day to get it all set up We really had one big failure, before I had tried to make a high tunnel or greenhouse out of pvc of grannies plastic. The day that I finished we had a really big windstorm, it was kind of funny we were out there.  trying to tag this thing down We kind of worried when we bought this one Our wind  can be horrible sometimes 40-50mph for a couple of days sometimes held up well lightweight aluminum frame Greenhouse  door at both ends windows down both sides for ventilation plastic comes down on the sides wider then the greenhouse frame  So we put a lot of mulch on outside edges of it. On the inside I took the screw end ground anchors. We wired an anchor from the frame to the greenhouse, it might move an inch or two here or that but it still strong so far. We’ve had a lot of wind and snow problems here. Every once in a while we’ll get a snow. I know it snows in Texas because when I drove through Texas I was going from New Mexico to New York the day after Halloween and I got stuck in a big blizzard in Texas! Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? Well, last year the produce that we grew,   friends at church people we would meet and talk to come to our house take things to church to buy  Which worked pretty well with what we were growing but this year with our new garden plan and layout we should have a lot more produce this year! So what’s exciting for me is we are going to try to set up a little farmstead, under a couple of tables and so people can come to us on Saturday mornings and buy what they want. Some gardens and market farmers will do a pick your own, but I’m a little skeptical of that right now. What I am hearing is that sometimes you get people who don’t know how to harvest lettuce and they’ll not know to cut your lettuce and pull it up! Leaf lettuce will continue to produce pull the plant up it’s done exciting thing to try to grow enough I talked with Pam Grewe here in Whitefish and they had a farm and they would have a big volunteer day once a week. She said she really had to focus on helping the volunteers and managing and moving around interacting, helping them and then on the other days, she would work quietly and be very specific about not having people on the farm on off days. That’s might be something you want to look into is having a volunteer day, where you focus on teaching them so they are getting an education too. build our clients up by having them  That’s a good idea, I have thought about it, but haven’t really done anything to get it going. She said so many people told her how much they loved the farm and remember visiting as children. Management whether your managing preschools or volunteers or a farmer’s market that takes a lot of give and take, and understanding and listening. I always like to expand on what’s successful and go from there. Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season. What didn’t go so well last year? I’ve been gardening last year was simple green beans!  I was reading that blog post. it’s like what is going on here planted different points different times different conditions They just wouldn’t take off  they’d grow up would look great flower wither away  no idea what was going on?! last round planted some simple blue lake bush bean literally so prolific, I thought pretty much the same thing, they flowered and we were having beans like crazy! So I had to recheck the package  climbed everything went crazy vining climbing all the trellises everything they could touch they were climbing.  bush beans  really climbed like crazy! Trying to grow them the normal times and stuff that you would normally grow...

It’s Tuesday, January 15, 2019. You must be doing something right? I can’t seem to get anyone to watch my videos. The one thing I have noticed lately is, we don’t really watch tv so in the evenings, what we do, we’re about done with our day around 8:30ish. We stream Youtube. Watching on TV you can’t interact but I get on the iPad and if I like their video or make a comment I get a lot more people who seem to be interested in my channel. You have like 35, 53  views, etc. I have like no views. 0 views at all. Watching others, I’ll have to try that. You have to be persistence. We’ve been doing it for a year and we’re only just getting somewhere. I see it as you’ve only been doing it for a year! Honestly it’s been the easiest gardening method I have ever learned! <a href="https://savvyorganicsfarm.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBA1qGJzUVUyevdEzPmhprw" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Savvy Organics Farm YouTube Channel</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SavvyOrganicsFarm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Savvy Organics Farm On Facebook</a> <a href="http://www.localharvest.org/listing.jsp?id=74449&amp;ul" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Savvy Organcs Farm On Local Havest</a> Tell us a little about yourself. Sure, well basically I’ve been gardening most of my life since I was s little kid, life happens to you, and you have kids, we have 2 kids. We always have a family garden, nothing but raising a few vegetables for ourselves. The last few year with the kids out on our own. We have 5 acres, so we don’t need it for livestock and when the kids were in ag. October 2017. We kind of came up with the idea, what are we going to do with our land now? We’ve always been avid gardeners so we started . <ul> <li>market gardens</li> <li>CSA programs</li> <li>reasons they do it</li> <li>health benefits</li> </ul> 1/2 acre and pasture next to our house basically ripped what are we doing Just watch YouTube at night Who do you feel like you’ve been watching that give you the most. The subjects range from homesteading to organic  gardening Some of our favorites. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MIgardener" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MI Gardener</a> he’s a good one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSGEokQQcdAVFuL_Aq8dlg" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Justin Rhodes with the abundant permaculture</a> vlog everyday they do everything <ul> <li>livestock and gardening</li> </ul> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_PgChfO-fgSIpIYWD3Ka-g" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Living Traditions</a> <ul> <li>homesteading</li> <li>raising animals and things</li> </ul> Well that’s  a good list. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Well, as a kid, growing up in town at my parents house, my dad just let me sort of get a small garden plot in the backyard. Other then some squash, IDK what  remember what I grew then.  My parents had a lake home and we had a 1/4 acre had a big garden there, always helping in that. Over all the years, raising our family and stuff, the importance of teaching your kids <ul> <li>where food comes from</li> <li>nutritional value of it</li> </ul> raise our kids responsibility Good work ethic, things like that. So did they do 4H or FFA (Future Farmers of America)? We were involved with the FFA for all of my kids. We primarily raised Texas Long Horn show cattle. The kids earned scholarship money for college by doing that. <ul> <li>horses</li> <li>play days </li> <li>little rodeos</li> </ul> Always had an active lifestyle, hunting and fishing as kids, my dad did that when we were kids. Are you from Texas, born and raised? I am, lived here all my life, here in the Dallas area. <h3>How did you learn how to garden organically?</h3> Over the years, but in the last few years more important! The older you get, you think. I’ve been putting this in my food, I wonder what that actually does? You read the labels and think, I can’t pronounce that why am I eating that? Sure! Vani Hari, the food babe just sent out an email this morning with all the weird things in Almond milk. Yeah, absolutely so many things in We agree, other than for a holiday or something where we need it as an ingredient we pretty much only use almond milk. make it ourselves <h3>almond milk</h3> really easy The almonds: <ul> <li>get soaked</li> <li>ground up and put in a nut bag</li> <li>after ground up squeeze through nut bag</li> </ul> what comes out almond milk takes 10-15 minutes really easy almond butter which I love and a lot of the store bought things have a lot of additives butter is really easy roast almonds at about 350º <h3>Use a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Vitamix-Explorian-Professional-Grade-Container-Refurbished/dp/B07CX95VRT/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=vitamix&amp;qid=1554125233&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;psc=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vitamix</a> to blend them into butter</h3> if they are a little dry add a little oil really goes a long way a lot less expensive then what you would buy in the store. Does it come out the texture of peanut butter? What we typically make is a little bit thicker add anything like a tasteless oil, avocado or sunflower oil something that doesnt’ have any flavor. You can thin it a little bit by adding oil to it consistency of buying anything that is processed food and all the additive things that go into them. I often wonder, is buying peanut butter and making a sandwich is that processed or does that count as home made? Or is that still processed if all the parts are processed but you put them together. I was just talking to <a href="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/264-rent-mason-bees/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Olivia who Rent Mason Bees</a> about the bees pollinating the almonds.  my sons a bee keeper sent all of his hives for the winter leases the beehives to them for the almond bees have not had any luck with mason bees. She said their main goal is to spread them, they’re super pollinators and they’ll pollinate so much more then a honeybee, but they do require a bit of maintenance in the winter, they actually give them a bath, if you don’t clean out their homes, the pollen mites grow and grow and wipe out the bees. I’ve heard that they are such great pollinators <ul> <li>not as aggressive </li> <li>don’t sting</li> </ul> IDK why we don’t have more of them. They say they’re everywhere maybe Idk know what I’m looking for I would love to know about them and get them on our place. I know she said that they ship different ones at different times of year. Maybe it was the wrong time of year or something. Maybe you’ll want to give that <a href="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/264-rent-mason-bees/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">episode</a> a listen to. <h2>Tell us about something that grew well this year.</h2> It’s pretty much winter right now a few things in the ground first greenhouse able to put up this past season <ul> <li>carrots</li> <li>spinach</li> <li>broccoli</li> <li>cauliflower</li> </ul> growing and doing pretty well. Over the season last year, the biggest things we had the most success <ul> <li>lettuces</li> <li>kale</li> <li>daikon radishes</li> </ul> I didn’t know about them until I started gardening. They are  <ul> <li>amazing</li> <li>grow huge</li> <li>flavor is good in soups and salads</li> </ul> Really diverse. I didn’t know that you could saute radishes and in the beginning of the year before the beets etc were ready, and they were so good. Mike grew a lot of different colored giant radishes. I grew kale for the first time last year!´ first vegetable! <ul> <li>dinosaur kale</li> <li>blue dwarf kale</li> <li>garlic did well for us</li> </ul> I call it a green house, but it’s basically more like a hoop house not polycarbonate green colored plastic mesh that filters out some of the UV rays really inexpensive starting on a shoestring budget. challenging found this company here in Richardson, just north of us, fresco <h3><a href="http://deltacanopy.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Delta Canopy Company</a></h3> greenhouses of all kind I found this greenhouse, that was like $400 I put it together one day, literally took maybe a day to get it all set up We really had one big failure, before I had tried to make a high tunnel or greenhouse out of pvc of grannies plastic. The day that I finished we had a really big windstorm, it was kind of funny we were out there.  trying to tag this thing down We kind of worried when we bought this one Our wind  can be horrible sometimes 40-50mph for a couple of days sometimes held up well lightweight aluminum frame <h2>Greenhouse</h2> <ul> <li>door at both ends</li> <li>windows down both sides for ventilation</li> <li>plastic comes down on the sides</li> <li>wider then the greenhouse frame</li> </ul> So we put a lot of mulch on outside edges of it. On the inside I took the screw end ground anchors. We wired an anchor from the frame to the greenhouse, it might move an inch or two here or that but it still strong so far. We’ve had a lot of wind and snow problems here. Every once in a while we’ll get a snow. I know it snows in Texas because when I drove through Texas I was going from New Mexico to New York the day after Halloween and I got stuck in a big blizzard in Texas! <h2>Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new?</h2> Well, last year the produce that we grew, <ul> <li>friends at church</li> <li>people we would meet and talk to</li> <li>come to our house</li> <li>take things to church to buy</li> </ul> Which worked pretty well with what we were growing but this year with our new garden plan and layout we should have a lot more produce this year! So what’s exciting for me is we are going to try to set up a little farmstead, under a couple of tables and so people can come to us on Saturday mornings and buy what they want. Some gardens and market farmers will do a pick your own, but I’m a little skeptical of that right now. What I am hearing is that sometimes you get people who don’t know how to harvest lettuce and they’ll not know to cut your lettuce and pull it up! <h3>Leaf lettuce will continue to produce</h3> pull the plant up it’s done exciting thing to try to grow enough I talked with Pam Grewe here in Whitefish and they had a farm and they would have a big volunteer day once a week. She said she really had to focus on helping the volunteers and managing and moving around interacting, helping them and then on the other days, she would work quietly and be very specific about not having people on the farm on off days. That’s might be something you want to look into is having a volunteer day, where you focus on teaching them so they are getting an education too. build our clients up by having them That’s a good idea, I have thought about it, but haven’t really done anything to get it going. She said so many people told her how much they loved the farm and remember visiting as children. Management whether your managing preschools or volunteers or a farmer’s market that takes a lot of give and take, and understanding and listening. I always like to expand on what’s successful and go from there. <h2>Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season.</h2> What didn’t go so well last year? I’ve been gardening last year was simple green beans!  I was reading that blog post. it’s like what is going on here planted different points different times different conditions <h3>They just wouldn’t take off</h3> <ul> <li>they’d grow up</li> <li>would look great flower</li> <li>wither away</li> </ul> no idea what was going on?! last round planted some simple blue lake bush bean literally so prolific, I thought pretty much the same thing, they flowered and we were having beans like crazy! So I had to recheck the package <ul> <li>climbed everything</li> <li>went crazy</li> <li>vining climbing all the trellises</li> <li>everything they could touch they were climbing.</li> </ul> <h3>bush beans </h3> really climbed like crazy! Trying to grow them the normal times and stuff that you would normally grow...

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