Mark Dodd is an award winning photographer-filmmaker who has worked world-wide for 20 years with the BBC. Visit his website at www.1080films.co.uk to view this and other projects AH:What is the film “The Man Who Stopped the Dessert” about? MD:The film is a documentary about Yacouba Sawadogo. He’s an illiterate African peasant farmer from Burkina [...] Read more »
Eat Better, Live Better
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 »
Farmer Profile: Mohamed Rago
Somali Bantu Refugee Learns to Farm in Washington State Video by Kent Colony From the filmmaker: Mohamed Rago is a Somali Bantu refugee who arrived in the United States in February 2005 after fleeing a civil war. He began farming when he was eight years old and is now learning to adapt these skills in [...] Read more »
Vietnam Rice Harvest ~ Pull & Spread
Tried and True Techniques of Vietnamese Rice Harvest Video & Music by Anthony Ranville From the filmmaker: Vietnamese rice production in the Mekong & Red River delta is important to the food supply and national economy. Vietnam is one of world’s richest agricultural regions and is the second-largest (after Thailand) exporter of rice. It is [...] Read more »
History of Puyallup
Part 3 of 3 From the filmmakers: History of Puyallup, Washington. A documentary produced by Clover Park Technical College’s Video Production Class. Executive Producer/Instructor: Scott Blatman. The Puyallup Indians were given their name by regional tribes for their “generous ways”. Settlers flood to Pierce County and forever change the Indian village into a farming and [...] Read more »
Want fresh eggs?
Cluck here Video: Produced by Gillian Mohney and Vikram Patel From the filmmakers: Victory Chicken Co. founder Noah Leff gives urban dwellers a taste of the countryside by setting them up with their very own chicken coop. The video can also be viewed at The Brooklyn Ink, a student-run website at Columbia Journalism School. Read more »
The Making of a Sustainable Food System
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 »