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Food Farmer Earth
Direct Seeding in the Garden For Early Season Vegetables
In the direct seeding method, Weston Miller demonstrates the types of vegetables to grow by direct seeding in the early Spring garden: potatoes, peas, carrots, beets, radishes, arugula, lava beans, and mustard greens.
Food Farmer Earth
Choosing the Right Garden Tools for Your Vegetable Garden
For those with little direct gardening experience, this introductory video will help you choose the right garden tools to properly manage your vegetable garden. Weston Miller, an urban horticulturist for the Oregon State University...
Food Farmer Earth
Raising Backyard Chickens - Greens for your Chickens
Naomi Montacre shares the in and outs of feeding fresh greens to your backyard chickens. As Montacre explains, feeding chickens a variety of greens is a good supplement in addition to their regular feed diet. Watch out for grass and...
Curated Video
Amaranth: From Ancient Staple to Modern Superfood
This video explores the fascinating history and resilience of the ancient grain, amaranth. From its origins in Mesoamerica and its importance to the Aztec civilization, to its condemnation by the Spanish conquistadors and subsequent...
Maddie Moate
How Does Rice Grow? | Maddie Moate
Greg and I visited the incredible Tegalalang Terraced Rice Paddies but we wanted to explore a little further and share with you HOW the Balinese people grow rice all over the country. So, we jumped on a scooter and searched out the local...
FuseSchool
GM Crops
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to...
FuseSchool
Uses of Plant Hormones
In this video we are going to look at a few different ways in which plant hormones can be used.
Plant growth hormones (auxins) can be used as selective weedkillers. The selective weedkillers contain growth hormones,...
Plant growth hormones (auxins) can be used as selective weedkillers. The selective weedkillers contain growth hormones,...
Ancient Lights Media
Genetic Engineering: Positives & Negatives of Transgenic Plants
This clip looks at some of the beneficial and harmful aspects of transgenic plants.
Curated Video
Greenie Grows a Garden
Hi Greenie! ¡Hola Verdecito! Join Greenie in his garden, as he first plants, then tends to, and finally harvests yummy strawberries. Presented in English and Spanish, this sweet bilingual story introduces kids to common gardening words,...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Engaging Plants
The science teacher discusses features of weeds in his backyard and how their thorns are used by the plant to engage animals. Other methods that plants use to engage animals include appearance, scent, and the taste of their products. Mr....
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Time to Stop Picking on Weeds and Non Natives?
Many weeds and non-native species are actually beneficial to humans--and the environment.