Video by: Lindsay Crisler Email: lcrisler@gmail.com From the filmmaker: Heinz Thomet owns and farms Next Step Produce with his wife Gabrielle and their three daughters in Newburg, Maryland. One of the only organic farmers in the region, Heinz’s operation is USDA certified organic selling locally and in Washington, D.C. at the DuPont Circle Farmers Market. [...] Read more »
Casual Country Charm
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 »
Small Farmers in Upper Egypt Cultivate Progress
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 »
Throw To Grow Profile: Lan Thai
“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 »
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 »
Brace of the Valentines
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 »
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 »
Interstate Highway Biomass Farming
Will the New Year Bring New Farming Opportunities? This Whole Systems Design short video challenges us to look at our Interstate Highway system as not only a means to move ourselves and our products from here to there, but to also consider them as an innovative farming opportunity. Video by Ben Falk From the filmmaker: [...] 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 »
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