Video by: Molly Gard From the filmmaker: This documentary short investigates how purchasing a new home led one family to reinvent themselves as organic avocado farmers, creating a new sense of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. About Harvest, LLC shares stories about food and agriculture. Subscribe to receive stories about the science, history and relevance [...] Read more »
Loyola University Tends Field with Horse Power
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 »
Documentary Trailer: ‘The Man Who Stopped The Desert’
Winner of 7 international film awards Trailer & film by: 1080 Films From the Mark Dodd, the filmmaker: Winner of 7 international film awards, The Man Who Stopped the Desert is a one hour feature doc telling the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an African peasant farmer who has pioneered a technique that reverses the process [...] Read more »
Vietnamese Farming Goes Modern
Vietnamese Farmers Market in New Orleans Video by: EatTV.com From the filmmakers: Every Saturday morning at dawn, a parking lot in New Orleans East transforms into a farmers market bursting with the essential ingredients for the perfect Vietnamese meal: huge piles of cilantro, basil are mint are stacked alongside larger piles of gourds, daikon, bitter [...] 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 »
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 »
A Short Journey ‘Five’
Video by: The Film Artist Sit back in a nice comfortable armchair by a log fire with a glass of red wine and enjoy, captured solely with my iPhone 4S. Music, from the film ‘the Piano’ itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-piano-original-music-from/id106482210 Special Appearance: Starrng ‘The Building’ vimeo.com/31398105 Starring ‘Our Orchard’ vimeo.com/12013220 twitter.com/thefilmartist vimeo.com/channels/tfa thefilmartist.blogspot.com 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 »
“SAHAY – Fit to Feet”
Smart Tool Design Will Help Barefoot Farmers in India This Design school project (it is currently a prototype) holds great promise for the barefoot farmers in India and around the world. This design was developed at DSK ISD International School of Design, India Team members – Dorian Hernould, Arthur Trichelieu, Harika Arumalla, Maxime Dubreucq, Rachana [...] 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 »