Sustaination Sustaination is a UK based start-up with some very big ideas on how to simplify food distribution. View the video below to learn all about this unique business proposition. “Business supply 99.9% of what we eat. The easier it is for them to find and buy local, the easier it is for us to [...] Read more »
SustainAbility Farm
Video by: Adam Kaufman From the filmaker: A short documentary about a working farm on Long Island, NY for adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. This piece was produced for AOL Huffington Post Media Group in 2011. For more info visti SutainAbility Farm website: sustainabilityservicesinc.org If people are interested in volunteering they can contact [...] Read more »
All for the Love of Chocolate
Joan Coukos is a Chocolatier & CEO of CHOCOLAT MODERNE. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a degree in French and Russian, and received an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill before entering the New York banking scene. Her extensive career included six years in Moscow during the rough and tumble days of [...] Read more »
Borlaug Institute: “We’ve got an enormous job to do…”
In this podcast we talk with Borlaug Institute Director, Dr. Edwin Price about the recently formed partnership between the Howard G Buffet Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. Borlaug Institute: Helping Small Farmers Secure Access to Land The purpose of the partnership is to promote African agricultural research, extension and education and [...] Read more »
Using Ingenuity & Internet to Stay on the Farm
Video by: Making Connections News From the filmmakers: A portrait of Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton, farmers in Scott County, Virginia, who have used the Internet to create a thriving market for their invention, the Avian Aqua Miser. This innovative device provides a steady source of water to chickens without creating an unsanitary mess. Their [...] Read more »
Casual Country Charm
Video by: Megan Oriana Erskine From the filmmaker: Casual Country Charm is a “survey” piece meant to provide a short story on the agri-tourism development in a rural town in Michigan. With the decline of industry like tool and die, Baroda is turning to its agricultural heritage and America’s food reawakening to revive its downtown [...] Read more »
Small Farmers in Upper Egypt Cultivate Progress
We recently learned about a special horticulture program in Upper Egypt that helps small farmers and agricultural workers to work more efficiently and improve their business partnerships through the benefit of a program known as the MDG Achievement Fund. Visit www.mdgfund.org to learn more about the program. Here is an excerpt from that website describing [...] Read more »
Throw To Grow Profile: Lan Thai
“Food is Medicine” Video by nathan m peracciny From the Throw To Grow Team: “Food is medicine.” Lan Thai Our next installment of the Throw To Grow Profile series, features Lan Thai, Chef & Founder of Happy’s Hawai’i. Happy’s Hawai’i combines innovation, a sense of community, with traditional Vietnamese cooking. All to create fresh and [...] Read more »
Lely Astronaut A4: A Better Balance
Copyright 2012, Studio Scherp & Bewogen | Bram van Risp Fotografie. For more information about us please visit scherp-bewogen.nl From Studio Scherp & Bewogen: A short documentary about the changes that robotic milking can bring to a farm and family life. Read more »
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