Video by: Jenny Kane From the filmmaker: Lane Linnenkohl of Equus Oaks Farms plows a quarter of an acre of land on Loyola University’s Ecology Campus in Woodstock with Percheron Draft horse power. The land will be used to plant organic wheat for the university. To view additional work from the filmmaker visit: jennykane.com About [...] Read more »
Life Sciences Film Festival
Call for Entry Details about the 2012 Festival: International Festival of Documentary Films on Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, lsff.cz Life Sciences Film Festival Call for Entry: lsff.cz/en/akt/73 Our conversation with the LSFF Program Director, Štěpán Alexander: AH:How did the get it’s start? SA: The idea to [...] Read more »
Vert: Social Enterprise Engineered From Bags
Dell Social Innovation Challenge Submission Vert is a project that was created as a submission for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. It’s creators shared with us that their motivation for starting the project where not financial, that rather they hope to “contribute to the debate on agriculture, technology and food security” adding that it also [...] Read more »
Farming in the Future
An Introduction to “Smart Farm” This video is the first installment of a new project called “Smart Farm” Video by: Aubrey White (twitter: @letters_science) From the filmmaker: Follow along in my first year of operating a farm as I explore a bit of science, a bit of technology, and a lot about my little piece [...] Read more »
Tanzania Cotton Programme
Boosting Yields Through Conservation Agriculture The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is working with the Tanzania Cotton Board to transform the country’s cotton & textile sector. Gatsby is a trust set up by David Sainsbury to realise his charitable objectives in a number of different areas. Since 2007 it has been working with the Tanzania Cotton Board [...] Read more »
Aerial Farming
Birds Eye View of Farming Video by: pixelsoftfilms.com Read more »
History of Mumford Farms
Six Generations of Farming Mumford’s Located in Indiana, Mumford Farms has been in Anna’s family for six generations. She recently completed a film project documenting the story about her family’s corn and soybeans farm and spoke with us about her film titled: Mumford Farms. AH: What are your motivations behind the Mumford Farms project? AM: [...] Read more »
Dr. Patrick Webb: Addressing World Hunger
Last week, while attending the Economist Conference titled: Feeding the World in Geneva Switzerland, Dr Patrick Webb, Academic Dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University kindly took time to speak with us for a podcast interview. Listen here: Read more »
Gas & Water
Video by: Tim Wimborne Chief Photographer, Australia and New Zealand Reuters News 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 »