Video by The Christensen Fund. From the filmmakers: This video is about the Tesuque Seed Bank on Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico. The seed bank is a storage facility for native varieties of seeds from the Americas and beyond. It is meant to protect the genetic diversity and biocultural heritage of indigenous peoples and to contribute [...] Read more »
The Real Happy Meal
Video by StoryTravelers From StoryTravelers: It’s about time to reframe what we think of when we hear “Happy Meal”. “The real happy meal” is a funny prelude about the joy of delicious, fair home grown food. The story takes you on a trip from the dinner table in the open mountain air, through the kitchen [...] Read more »
The Farmer and The Bluefin
Video from theperennialplate.com From the filmmakers: When we decided to make a video about farmed Bluefin tuna, it was with trepidation. This is not the perfect fish, it could harldy be considered sustainable (they eat a lot of other fish). But it’s a step in the direction of killing the last of the wild Bluefin [...] Read more »
A Conversation about Beekeeping
Beehives Well Accommodated in Suburbia After seeing there were bees being raised along a stockade fence off the side of a highway, Tony Lulek was inspired enough to educate himself on raising bees too. That was nearly seven years ago. Today Tony is a Beekeeper at Little Beehive Farm in the midst of his suburban [...] Read more »
Freight Farms
Affordable Sustainable Urban Food Production Three years ago a Boston based Research and Development organization called United Hydroponics was looking at ways in which they could develop a sustainable rooftop food growing system. They started by looking into making sustainable gardens on city rooftops. After working with a few local companies that were looking into [...] Read more »
Designing w/ School Food
Adding Water to the Menu at NYC Public Schools “School Food” is part of a series of videos developed by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons, within a project called “Designing W/”. Students conducted research in New York City public schools to imagine and innovate new sustainable practices in the cafeteria. To learn more [...] Read more »
Farm to School
Video by 2600 Productions From the filmmaker: Atlanta Farm to School presents the Edgewood Farm crew at the Coan Middle School Edible Schoolyard. This program allows students from the neighborhood to learn to grow, harvest and sell foods on a 1/2 acre of land in the city. Kyla Zaro-Moore manages the programs providing the students [...] Read more »
The Perennial Plate Episode 67: Kids at a Farm
From the filmmakers: For our stay in Portland, Oregon we filmed at Janus Youth Food Works project where teenagers manage a farm. They make money at it too. We spent a couple days with them, followed by a meal with Plate and Pitchfork, a wonderful Dinner on a Farm series. Video by: Daniel Klein The [...] Read more »
Big City Farms
The ideal farm would be in your neighborhood. Read more »
Scinamate Food Security
The Hidden Global Food Crisis Read more »