Bees & VCC = The greenest public structure in Vancouver Video by: Stefan Morel From the filmmaker: The Vancouver Convention Centre was minted as the city’s newest architectural wonder, at the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The greenest public structure on Vancouver’s ever-rising urban skyline, the VCC was engineered with a host of sustainable [...] Read more »
In Depth Interview with Multi-Award-Winnng Director Mark Dodd
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 »
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 »
We Farm
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Vert: Social Enterprise Engineered From Bags
Dell Social Innovation Challenge Submission Vert is a project that was created as a submission for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. It’s creators shared with us that their motivation for starting the project where not financial, that rather they hope to “contribute to the debate on agriculture, technology and food security” adding that it also [...] Read more »
The Four Distinct Pillars of Sustainable Food
Sustainable Food Systems, Part 2 In our previous conversation with John Turenne we learned he is nationally recognized for breaking new ground in the food industry. In this conversation with the inspired President and founder of Sustainable Food Systems, we learn how he got his start in creating his breakthrough company. AH:What did you do [...] Read more »
Ramps: A Rite of Springtime
How to Harvest Ramps Properly Spring to many means it is the time to find, seek and cook up ramps, and this video by Jim Gop explains how to harvest them correctly. Sometimes found in farmers markets, ramps are a type of wild onion, ramps actually belong to the lily family. To learm more about [...] Read more »
Growing Cities: “Urban Farming has a Lot of Potential”
Growing Cities is a documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. Documenting Urban Farmers Across the Country When I first saw the trailer for the documentary, “Growing Cities“, I knew I wanted to know [...] Read more »
“What the heck is sustainable food?”
Sustainable Food Systems, Part 1 John Turenne first spoke those words a relatively few short years ago and is now a nationally recognized for breaking new ground in the food industry. Chef, President and founder of Sustainable Food Systems, LLC, John is now a leader in the national movement for healthy sustainable food systems. It [...] Read more »
Farm Trekking Adventures: Colombian Coffee Growers
Sachamama Nature Reserve, Salento Colombia We are so pleased to bring this story about a dedicated family in Columbia who is growing coffee. They have embraced and adopted the ways of slow food and land reclamation and in the process, established their own way of growing and selling coffee. The filmmakers behind the story are [...] Read more »