Instructional Video6:50
Food Farmer Earth

Direct Seeding in the Garden For Early Season Vegetables

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video8:40
Food Farmer Earth

Choosing the Right Garden Tools for Your Vegetable Garden

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:51
Food Farmer Earth

Raising Backyard Chickens - Greens for your Chickens

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:37
Curated Video

Amaranth: From Ancient Staple to Modern Superfood

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video10:45
Maddie Moate

How Does Rice Grow? | Maddie Moate

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video4:20
FuseSchool

GM Crops

6th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:15
FuseSchool

Uses of Plant Hormones

6th - Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video3:49
Ancient Lights Media

Genetic Engineering: Positives & Negatives of Transgenic Plants

6th - 8th
This clip looks at some of the beneficial and harmful aspects of transgenic plants.
Instructional Video5:55
Curated Video

Greenie Grows a Garden

Pre-K - 3rd
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,...
Instructional Video2:46
Curated OER

STEMbite: Engaging Plants

1st - 6th
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....
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Time to Stop Picking on Weeds and Non Natives?

9th - 10th
Many weeds and non-native species are actually beneficial to humans--and the environment.