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A simple idea led two women into a thriving new farming enterprise. Build backyard mini-farms for homeowners who want to start growing their own fresh herbs and vegetables lasting throughout most of the year. Recipes from this episode: Kale Philo Bake and Crookneck Squash and Tomato Slices. Links to these recipes are below. For more stories: cookingupastory.com For the Kale Philo Bake recipe cookingupastory.com For Crookneck Squash and Tomato Slices recipe: cookingupastory.com...

Sustainable agriculture strives to produce food in a way that maintains the health of the land, protects the people who work it, and benefits those who enjoy its abundance. This program provides an inside look at an organic farm and an organic retail store and discusses the day-to-day challenges and rewards of working in this field. Organic farming includes a wide range of jobs in production, marketing and distribution. Organic farming is a very competitive business, but for people with an ...

Rooy Media LLC has created over fifty programs that educate people about important social issues. This video clip is a sample from Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: Vegetables, one program in a six-part series that profiles the impressive strides many farmers have made in lowering the use of chemicals and creating healthier food, a safer environment, and greater profits. Produced in association with Rodale Institute. For more information, visit www.rooymedia.com

Travaux publics et agriculture chez l'entreprise Marjollet (haute qualité)

An introduction to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) with a focus on sustainability and fresh, local food.

Discovery-News.com: Produce is being grown in the most unlikely place. Discovery News' Matt Danzico takes a tour through New York City's sustainable agriculture barge. Check out more science news at www.discovery-news.com

The alternative to the longstanding American food policy of "cheap and lots" is to eat locally, eat seasonally and eat organic. Filmmaker Bonnie Bucqueroux and her dog Schmoopsie look at the sustainable agriculture movement, including a visit to Michigan State University's Student Organic Farm, where Dr. John Biernbaum discusses the options people have to grow their own food or to buy from local growers.

Doing high level agriculture projects in the Caribbean.

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Agriculture is easily the most distorted sector, with high tariffs and, in developed countries at least, large amounts of government subsidies through price supports and direct payments. On the other hand, developing countries, who have a comparative advantage in these products, cannot afford to subsidize their agriculture sector and face prohibitive tariffs for their products abroad. The powerful agriculture lobby groups, particularly in the large developed countries, make reform ...

Jon Biloon has been an environmental activist for over 38 years, having helped put on some of the first Earth Day celebrations in the early 70's. He is a subsistence farmer who has planted and operated his own 11 acre farm, growing a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts, flowers, and herbs, including Kona coffee. He has traveled as far as Thailand to speak out against genetically modified food crops. Besides advocating and teaching small farm and backyard gardening strategies and ...

Biodiversity Agriculture

This introduction to the SAFS project, an interdisciplinary, participatory research experiment, examines the transition from conventional farming systems to low-input and organic production of a typical Sacramento Valley row crop rotation on a 20-acre site. Series: "University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources" [5/2001] [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 5765]

Take a look at the science behind genetic engineering and see how it is used in food crops and animals. Learn where and why this technology is used and look at the science-based concerns about the use of genetic engineering in agricultural production systems. Series: "University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources" [10/2004] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 9057]

EGNOS in Agriculture - High Precision, Low Cost

From CNN -Fast-growing hemp used for food, paper, textiles and car parts -Hemp and marijuana have tetrahydrocannabinol, but the level in hemp is lower -North Dakota is one of seven states that have OK'd production or research -The DEA will not approve permits for two farmers in that state State official backs hemp North Dakota's agriculture commissioner believes the US should get into the business of producing hemp products. Market ready for hemp? The president of Hemp Oil Canada explains ...

FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is a permanent forum where governments discuss and negotiate matters relevant to genetic resources for food and agriculture. The main objectives of the CGRFA are to ensure the conservation and sustainable utilization of genetic resources for food and agriculture, as well the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use, for present and future generations ...

Humane and sustainable pig farming. For more information please visit Compassion in World Farming's web pages about Good Agricultural Practice for Pig farming at www.ciwf.org.uk Part 2 is here: www.youtube.com Part 1 is here: www.youtube.com Pig Production is the first part of a vital new series of educational resources for agriculture, veterinary and animal science courses. Future resources will cover other species and farming practices such as broiler chickens (chickens bred for meat). The ...

The Astrakhan region is one of the biggest market garden areas in Russia and is famous across the country for its juicy watermelons and tomatoes.

For more sustainable living videos, stories and information, visit cookingupastory.com Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself), completes his thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture from his talk at the Organicology conference in Portland, Oregon.

Visit us on the web for more video stories, and information: Cooking Up a Story (cookingupastory.com). Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon natures reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those finite resources are diminishing rapidly; technology alone ...

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offers a holistic approach to the production of sustainable food grown in urban areas. In this story, we learn of one urban farmer who successfully uses the CSA model to produce long-term sustainable crops that are fresh, cost efficient to produce, environmentally friendly, and that offers local members a stake in the harvest crops. Recipes from the episode: Oven Roasted Tomatoes & Herbs; Spanish Eggplant Salad; and Caponata Pasta

President-elect Barack Obama has made two more cabinet appointments - Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar as interior secretary and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary. (Dec. 17)

This episode discusses dwindling groundwater resources in India. To find out more visit: www.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com One of the biggest changes to global agriculture is less about the food itself as it is about the water we use to grow it. In some areas, farmers are using freshwater resources - including groundwater - at an alarming rate. The GRACE satellites enable scientists to discover changes to ...

The big business of farming in the US is booming but undocumented migrants make up more than half of the farming workforce. They are ripe for exploitation and face low salaries, substandard housing, risk of injury, pesticides and heat stroke. Some literally work themselves to death. In this episode, Inside USA investigates farming in the era of free trade.