Food Farmer Earth
Corn Chronicles: A Farmer's Passionate Pursuit of Heritage Varieties
Highlighting a farmer's journey into cultivating diverse corn varieties, this narrative explores the deep connection between agriculture and heritage through the lens of corn farming. It touches on the aesthetic appreciation and...
FuseSchool
Food Security
Even though enough food is grown to feed all 7 billion people on Earth, around 795 million (so 1 in 9 people) do not eat enough food to maintain good health. These people don’t just live in less developed countries, being undernourished...
PBS
Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens...
Curated Video
Efficient Farming with Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a sustainable and highly efficient system that combines aquaculture (fish farming) with hydroponics (growing plants without soil). By utilizing the waste produced by fish to provide nutrients for plants, aquaponics requires...
Mazz Media
Agrarian Society
This live-action video program is about the word Agrarian Society. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of Agrarian Society through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Next Animation Studio
RNA-based plant vaccine could supplant chemical pesticides
Conventional pesticides are a double-edged sword that scientists are now seeking to replace with more natural RNA-based plant vaccines. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that without pesticides, roughly 70 percent of the...
Food Farmer Earth
Crafting Small Batch Strawberry Jam: A Homemade Delight
This video guides viewers through the process of making small batch strawberry jam, highlighting the simplicity of using fresh strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, and an optional twist of candy ginger. It emphasizes the quick and easy...
Food Farmer Earth
A Homesteader's Guide to Urban Agriculture: From Chickens to Wheat
Embracing urban homesteading, a family transforms their once barren backyard into a thriving ecosystem featuring chickens, bees, and dense vegetable gardens. Their journey from simple garden beds to a mini-farm reflects a broader goal of...
Food Farmer Earth
Aquaponics Simplified - A Guide to Integrating Fish and Plant Farming
A beginner's journey into small-scale aquaponics showcases the symbiotic relationship between fish and plants, emphasizing the system's ability to mimic natural ecosystems for year-round produce. The farmer shares insights on the...
US Department of Agriculture
MyPlate, MyWins: Meet Shelley
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion introduces the “MyPlate, MyWins” video series, a collection of videos that brings MyPlate to life and shows how families all over America are finding simple...
Food Farmer Earth
The 12 Aprils System: Revolutionizing Dairy Farming with Crop Rotation
Tom Trantham's Dairy Farm utilizes the 12 Aprils Nutritional Crop Rotation System to support sustainable dairy farming by rotating different forages in 29 paddocks, allowing cows to graze on a variety of crops year-round. This innovative...
Curated Video
The Cotton Gin: An Infamous Invention
It mechanised cotton production by separating cotton from seeds – but increased the demand for slave labor. Discover how the cotton gin changed 18th century American society.
US Department of Agriculture
A Little Story about Land Stewardship
NRCS worked with Twin Brook Creamery near Lynden, WA to install steel tanks as an alternative to earthen lagoons, eliminating the potential for seepage into groundwater.
Food Farmer Earth
Natural Allies: Birdhouses as Organic Pest Control on Farms
This video showcases an innovative approach to farm pest control by using birdhouses to attract swallows for fly management. It details how providing nesting spaces and cedar shavings for the birds not only aids in keeping them healthy...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Monarch Butterflies
USDA launches a new conservation effort to attract monarch butterflies.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: New Mexico
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Alaska
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: California
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
US Department of Agriculture
MyPlate, MyWins: What’s Your Healthy Eating Style?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion introduces the “MyPlate, MyWins” video series that shows how small changes to what you eat and drink add up. Whether at home or on-the-go, MyPlate can help...
Bedtime History
The First Cities
Around 10,000 years ago, humans started transitioning from hunting and gathering to the more settled life of farming. Fertile land enabled farmers to grow enough food for a growing population, and nearby rivers provided transportation...
Step Back History
The Pre-Columbian Peoples
Human history in America goes back over 10,000 years. In this first episode of Step Back's American History we look at the Pre-Columbian peoples and how they settled the western hemisphere.
Mazz Media
Industrial Food and Livestock Production
In this live-action video students will learn that Industrial Food and Livestock Production is a way of producing large quantities of food at a faster rate than traditional farming. They will come to understand that Industrial farming...
PBS
Why Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? And what does the Great Depression and farm subsidies have to do with it?
Food Farmer Earth
David Korten on Shaping a Resilient Food Future
David Korten addresses the need for a shift towards sustainable agriculture within a local, community-based economic system, critiquing the current industrialized, energy-dependent agricultural model for its unsustainability and...