Posts Tagged ‘farmers markets’

The Future of Small Family Farms (video)

The Future of Small Family Farms (video)

Do they have a future?

Winter Greenhouse Farming (video)

Winter Greenhouse Farming (video)

Rick Steffen is a small farmer for all seasons.

A Good Food Farmer (video)

A Good Food Farmer (video)

Anthony Boutard, of Ayers Creek Farm, is not your typical farmer. Trained as a forester, he and his wife, Carol, backed into farming – as he likes to tell it.

Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy

Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy

As a new USDA report documents for the first time the economic value of the local food economy, a local organization helps build deeper connections around local food.

Insalata Caprese (film)

Insalata Caprese (film)

Shot on location in an alternate universe between time and space, poetic moments of life are snapped into consciousness…

Why Buy Local?

Why Buy Local?

December 23, 2010 A group of middle school photography students from the University School of Nashville went to their local farmers market to snap pictures and ask a variety of questions of the farmers and vendors, such as buying local food over food being distributed from as far away as New Zealand. The result was [...]

Food Works (video)

Food Works (video)

Food Works provides opportunities to young people to make a difference in their communities. The youth comes from a diverse background, 14 to 21 years in age, they learn valuable skills how to communicate more effectively with adults, grow and market the food they produce at farmers markets, and provide fresh produce to low income [...]

Sustainable Food: Earthen Path Organic Farm (video)

Sustainable Food: Earthen Path Organic Farm (video)

Organic farmer Steven Schwen plows a different path through life; one built of a strong connection to the land, without many of the trappings of modern life.