“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 »
the institute for self-reliant agriculture
To learn more visit The Institute for Self Reliant Agriculture at: www.tifsra Video by: spritzvisuals From the Filmmaker: sra implements a progressive approach to self-sufficiency in agriculturally-fertile developing nations. sra works in cooperation with international organizations, local governments, universities, ngos, and others throughout the developing world to disseminate the small-scale agriculture family self-reliance program. this [...] Read more »
“Our Farmers are Your Neighbors”
Video by: Placer County Video Portal Certified Farmers’ Markets provide a sense of community and opportunity for consumers to know the people who grow their food, and provide a direct link to top quality produce. For more information, locations, and times visit: foothillfarmersmarket.com Read more »
Gold Dust Farms Odenberg Potato Sorter
Video by: Gold Dust Farms Here’s a video of the Odenberg Potato Sorter at work in the packing shed of Gold Dust Potato Processors. Aside from seeing the Odenberg in action, you can see the process of the chipping potatoes getting delivered from the cellar to being sorted, washed, checked for quality and loaded into [...] Read more »
ANDE – Foodtents excerpt
Video by: Darby Films From the filmmakers: An excerpt from the ANDE Global Video that we entered in a Social Innovation contest at mckinseyonsociety.com. Read more »