organic farming
Meet the Farmer 17: The Local Food Hub
The Local Food Hub in Ivy, Va., is a non-profit organization dedicated to a healthy regional food supply for a five-county area. Kate Collier, one of the founders, explains what the organization means for agriculture in central Virginia and how people can become involved in the local food movement. "Meet The Farmer," hosted by Michael Clark, hopes to show the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Email this pagePress for Democracy 9: South Central Farm
Sheila A. Laffey and Geoffrey Pepos's "South Central Farm" tells the story of the controversy involving farmers Rufina Juarez and Tezozomac, their supporters, including Willie Nelson and Martin Sheen and tree sitters Daryl Hannah, Joan Baez, John Quigley and Julia Butterfly Hill, and the developer and the City of Los Angeles, over the South Central Farm, the largest and most bio-diverse urban U.S. farm. After the film, Janice Markham interviews Laffey about the making of the documentary, urban gardens and the future of the farm.
Meet the Farmer: Polyface Farm
Joel Salatin of Virginia's Polyface Farms talks about his family's longtime plan to build sustainable agricultural models and principles that would guide human farming efforts in the future around the world in Part Three of an in-depth look at Polyface Farms' unique approach to farming. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Meet the Farmer: Episode 11
A trip through Feast!, a local food store, gourmet deli and cafe in downtown Charlottesville, Va., and a strong supporter of "eat local, shop local, support local." "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Meet the Farmer: Episode 10
A long look at the Culpepper County Farmer's Market in Virginia and an interview with agricultural historian Donny Johnson. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Meet The Farmer: Episode 4
Chef Cindy Sheppard shops and then cooks at the Forest Lakes Farmers Market in this episode. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Meet the Farmer: Episode 2
Part one of an interview with Cassandra "Sharada" Stish, operations VP for SAYVA, who discusses the Satchidananda Ashram farm and how it is feeding a small community. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Bioneers: Rick Reed
Rick Reed is a senior advisor to the Garfield Foundation, leading its collaborative clean energy project, RE-AMP. Thanks in large part to RE-AMP's activities, governors throughout the U.S. heartland in late 2007 committed themselves to reducing global warming pollution from their states by 80 per cent over the next 40 years. With a background in organic farming and molecular biology, Rick has been working in the fields of philanthropy and sustainability for nearly 20 years.
Fed Up!
About 70 per cent of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients, and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, including Vandana Shiva from the Research Center for Science, Technology and Ecology, Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley, Martina McGloughlin, Director of UC Davis' Biotechnology Program and many others, "Fed Up!" introduces us to local Bay Area organic farmers from Purisima Greens Farm and the Live Power Community Farm, presenting community supported agriculture(CSA) and small- scale organic farming as real alternatives to agribusiness and industrial food.
