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Alan Kapuler: Open Pollinated Public Domain Plant Breeder (video)

Alan Kapuler: Open Pollinated Public Domain Plant Breeder (video) In part 3 of this video, public domain plant breeder, Alan Kapuler, shares his deep appreciation for the biological and ecological systems of the garden.

The Unconventional Harvest: An Urban Oasis for Food

The Unconventional Harvest: An Urban Oasis for Food

Why would I choose to ride my bicycle into the concrete jungle of a large city?

Radiance Dairy (video)

Radiance Dairy (video) Most conventional dairy farms milk their herds until they no longer produce at large quantities and then "retire" them…usually to a feed lot. But Radiance Dairy is different.

Collecting a Wild Honeybee Swarm (video)

Collecting a Wild Honeybee Swarm (video)

In this video, beekeeper Matt Reed demonstrates how to collect a wild honeybee swarm comprising about 7000 honeybees. A swarm is the natural mechanism for bees to divide the colony in order to find a new home.

The Unconventional Harvest: Farm Sanctuary

The Unconventional Harvest: Farm Sanctuary There is a war between several animal rights organizations and modern industrial agriculture. This battle is political and personal and it is spilling out into the open.

Raising Backyard Chickens (video)

Raising Backyard Chickens (video)

Naomi Montacre, co-founder of Naomi’s Organic, shares some of her expert knowledge on raising backyard chickens.

Francis Thicke of Radiance Dairy (video)

Francis Thicke of Radiance Dairy (video) As we set off on our Real Food Road Trip, we had filming planned with Seed Savers, a forager in Northern Iowa, and plans to meet Francis Thicke of Radiance Dairy.

Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 2 (video)

Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 2 (video)

Alan Kapuler is well-educated in a formal academic sense, and also from a lifetime of work planting, breeding, and cataloging his vast collection of open pollinated seeds.