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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Look & See revolves around the divergent stories of several residents of Henry County, Kentucky who each face difficult choices that will dramatically reshape their relationship with the land and their community. In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, where he bought a small farm house and began a life of farming, writing and teaching. This lifelong relationship with the land and community would come to form the core of his prolific...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Introduces permaculture, a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and so on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience.
27) Farmland
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An in-depth documentary covering multiple personal stories of young US farmers and ranchers. Most Americans have never stepped foot on a working farm or ranch or ever had the opportunity to talk to the people who grow and raise the food we eat.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Symphony of the soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. by understanding the elaborate relationships and mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals, we come to appreciate the complex and dynamic nature of of this precious resource. The film also examines our human relationship with soil, the use and misuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation nd development.
29) A chef's life
Pub. Date
[2014-
Description
A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Season two hits the road with a new roster of Southern ingredients. Vivian and Ben open a second restaurant, plant heirloom apple trees, go pier fishing, hunt ramps and pick up pecans. Vivian prepares something special...
31) Sustainable
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
There is no hiding from the facts, rising temperatures, drought, soil loss, chemicals in our food, antibiotic resistance, declining bee populations, obesity, diabetes, shorter life expectancy, America needs help. Sustainable reveals the crisis facing America's food system, and the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. Amidst the cornfields of Illinois lives the hero of the film - Marty Travis.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"From the semi deciduous forest of Mexico to the farm lands and cities of North America, learn how successful beekeepers overcome challenges and develop sustainable practices to improve the quality and quantity of bee populations. This documentary offers several practical solutions. These include: utilizing the biodiversity of plants, mass plantings of protein rich flowers, Queen bee mating yards, how to fight bee parasites and diseases without chemicals...
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"This video set is for those seeking self-reliance in growing their own food. The project was developed by a family that depends on these systems for a significant part of their diet. The techniques used are drawn from organic gardening, permaculture, agroforestry, indigenous teachings, historical anecdotes, and missionary work in developing countries"--Container. CD-ROM contains Mac and PC compatible documents and images that support and complement...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In the third season of this Emmy Award-winning series, watch as Chef Vivian Howard, with husband Ben Knight and her twin children by her side, blend and balance the high stakes of managing two restaurants, writing a new cookbook and tackling a family reunion feast, all while the farm-to-table chef's plate is packed with food festivals and competitions.
38) Heart & soil
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This documentary takes you on a journey into the landscape and lives of farmers involved in local agriculture, farmer's markets and farm to school programs.
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