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Collaboration to Advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger Last week The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M announced a new collaboration based in South Africa at the Ukulima Farm Research Center to advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger. “It is my hope this collaboration will improve agricultural [...] Read more »
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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 »
We recently learned about a special horticulture program in Upper Egypt that helps small farmers and agricultural workers to work more efficiently and improve their business partnerships through the benefit of a program known as the MDG Achievement Fund. Visit www.mdgfund.org to learn more about the program. Here is an excerpt from that website describing [...] Read more »
Video by: José Maurício da Costa From the filmmaker: A short film showing through images the process of sugar cane extraction in the rural area of Brazil. The images was captured by Natalia Nunes and I next to her family small farm where we lived times ago. The infographics are illustrative and have only an [...] Read more »
I first met Jennifer Trehane of the Dorset Blueberry Company when she came to the Whitesbog Blueberry Festival in southern New Jersey in 2008. Whitesbog is the birthplace of what has become a global commercial blueberry industry. Dated March 1951, the letter seen below tells just part of the story about how commercial blueberry plants [...] Read more »
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 »
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 Family Perpetuates Their Farming Legacy For Generations Hard work, family, love. These are the primary elements that make up a successful family farm that is passed from generation to generation. Willie H. Valentine started his 109 acre Virginia farm in 1938. He raised tobacco, cotton, corn and fresh vegetables. 73 years later his Great [...] Read more »
“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 »
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