Posts Tagged ‘sustainable agriculture’

From the Field: Kale (video)

From the Field: Kale (video)

In an effort to learn where our food comes from, Ivy Manning visits a local farm to find out more about kale.

Harmony Comes to NBC

Harmony Comes to NBC

November 19, 2010 A film that I am looking forward to watching tonight (10pm PST) on NBC/Green is Harmony. Last April, NBC partnered with HRH The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) in order to bring this conscientious environmental film to a wider audience during their “Green is Universal” programming this month. “The Prince of Wales [...]

Community Supported Agriculture Work Party (video)

Community Supported Agriculture Work Party (video)

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) brings eaters in closer touch with their food. By offering people the opportunity to purchase shares of a harvest, farmers benefit by developing an advance market for their products, and eaters not only gain better knowledge of how and where their food is grown and raised, but also get to purchase [...]

Food Network: Community Supported Agriculture (video)

Food Network: Community Supported Agriculture (video)

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 [...]

Monterey Bay Aquarium—Cooking For Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute: David Mas Masumoto

Monterey Bay Aquarium—Cooking For Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute: David Mas Masumoto

Inspiring writer, and passionate sustainable farmer, David Mas Masumoto, shares his views on farming, on life, and the inherent tensions that arise, the “creative edge,” from the art of writing, and of being a farmer. Filmed in May 2010 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s, Cooking For Solutions: Sustainable Foods Institute media conference, Mr. Masumoto talks [...]

Growing Food in Kenya Amid Climate Change (video)

July 23, 2010 Growing food in a region facing climate change has many daily challenges for its residents. In parts of eastern Africa this is compounded by deforestation, which has led to water run-off and erosion. The soils health has greatly diminished which has led to crop failure for many. Through a program overseen by [...]

Farm To Market (video)

Farm To Market (video)

The Perennial Plate Episode 15: Farm to Market from Daniel Klein. Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of following the farm-to-market process with one of the “successful” upstart organic farms. Laura and Adam from Loon Organics let me film and work through their Friday-Saturday operation. I had been idealizing the idea of starting a [...]

Growing and Caring for Potatoes (video)

Growing and Caring for Potatoes (video)

In this Growing Fresh Food video, OSU Master Gardener Jen Aron talks about how to grow and care for potatoes.