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 »
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 »
Carting water, by Kyle Wohling
Diligent Water Circulations No matter how large or small, every farmer thinks about how to manage agricultural water. They think about how they’ll get it, how they’ll conserve it, and how they’ll be able to produce more crops with less water. In this video by ABC Open, we see how one farmer struggles with water [...] Read more »
Dance of the Farmers
This clever time-lapse video by Julian Post shows the many jobs farmers have throughout the course of a typical day. Video by Julian Post From the filmmaker: Everything was filmed at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT. Website: ShelburneFarms.org Read more »
A Conversation about Beekeeping
Beehives Well Accommodated in Suburbia After seeing there were bees being raised along a stockade fence off the side of a highway, Tony Lulek was inspired enough to educate himself on raising bees too. That was nearly seven years ago. Today Tony is a Beekeeper at Little Beehive Farm in the midst of his suburban [...] Read more »
Throw to Grow: It’s a Simple Concept
“Bokashi is a Very Simple Process…and Very Big” To hear him tell it, the Throw to Grow project is something simple that filmmaker Nathan Peracciny and his collegues are doing on their own. “People can do this” says Peracciny, adding; “It’s a simple concept, you have the ability to empower yourself through action to do [...] Read more »
“At Seventy-One (Subtitled English)”
The Perpetually Farming Woman In this exquisitely produced documentary by Brent Gundesen we meet a 71 year old farming woman. After being widowed, some in her family feel it is time for her to hang up farming and retire, while other’s think she should live the only life she knows and loves. From the filmmaker: [...] Read more »
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