Six Generations of Farming Mumford’s Located in Indiana, Mumford Farms has been in Anna’s family for six generations. She recently completed a film project documenting the story about her family’s corn and soybeans farm and spoke with us about her film titled: Mumford Farms. AH: What are your motivations behind the Mumford Farms project? AM: [...] Read more »
Dr. Patrick Webb: Addressing World Hunger
Last week, while attending the Economist Conference titled: Feeding the World in Geneva Switzerland, Dr Patrick Webb, Academic Dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University kindly took time to speak with us for a podcast interview. Listen here: Read more »
A Short Journey ‘Five’
Video by: The Film Artist Sit back in a nice comfortable armchair by a log fire with a glass of red wine and enjoy, captured solely with my iPhone 4S. Music, from the film ‘the Piano’ itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-piano-original-music-from/id106482210 Special Appearance: Starrng ‘The Building’ vimeo.com/31398105 Starring ‘Our Orchard’ vimeo.com/12013220 twitter.com/thefilmartist vimeo.com/channels/tfa thefilmartist.blogspot.com Read more »
Using Ingenuity & Internet to Stay on the Farm
Video by: Making Connections News From the filmmakers: A portrait of Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton, farmers in Scott County, Virginia, who have used the Internet to create a thriving market for their invention, the Avian Aqua Miser. This innovative device provides a steady source of water to chickens without creating an unsanitary mess. Their [...] Read more »
Two of Us
“A Saturday in the life of Mr & Mrs Keskar” A captivating short documentary by Akhil Khandeparkar. Follow the once-weekly journey of Mr. & Mrs. Keskar to take their produce to the “Loni madai”, a market that has been around since 1968. Read more »
Thoughts of a Farmer
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 »
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 »
Dance of the Farmers
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 »
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 »
Seeds for Learning
Urban Farm Raises, Harvests and Serves Fresh Organic Produce to its Community ‘Seeds for Learning’ is a program that has furnished the tools for an underserved community located in Northwest Philadelphia, to raise, harvest and provide organic produce to their community. Community members learn the process of how to grow the food from planting to [...] Read more »