Food Farmer Earth
The Decline of Local Grist Mills: Impacts of Industrial Flour Production
The advancement in flour milling technology by major mills enabled the production and distribution of flour with longer shelf life, leading to the decline of small local grist mills. These industrial mills removed the germ and bran for...
Food Farmer Earth
Rediscovering Home Cooking: A Route to Healthier Eating
Highlighting the economic and sensory benefits of home cooking, this piece argues that dishes like pot roast and soups not only save money but also create lasting family memories. It champions cooking at home for control over quality,...
Food Farmer Earth
Ancient Grains Revival: A Farmer's Mission to Preserve Diversity
Dedicated to preserving ancient grain varieties, a farmer collaborates with the Kusa Seed Foundation to cultivate and maintain old, traditional types of wheat such as einkorn and emmer. This endeavor not only aims to safeguard the...
Food Farmer Earth
Urban Harvest: The Movement to Salvage City Fruit
Urban fruit gleaning initiatives aim to rescue unused fruit from city trees, redistributing it to those in need. This process not only provides fresh produce to low-income individuals but also strengthens community bonds and reduces food...
Food Farmer Earth
Backyard Ecosystems: A Homesteader's Guide to Permaculture
A homesteader shares how permaculture principles transform her backyard into a self-sustaining ecosystem, integrating chicken coops, vegetable gardens, and ponds to create a harmonious, functional space. She emphasizes the importance of...
Food Farmer Earth
Innovative Farming - Integrating Cover Crops for Sustainable Agriculture
The video features a farmer discussing the benefits of planting forage soybeans with corn as a strategy to enhance soil health and reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. This sustainable practice, which yields considerable corn...
Food Farmer Earth
Ocean to Table - The Craft of Harvesting Sea Salt
A passionate salt maker shares his journey from Scandinavia back to the Pacific Northwest, where he began harvesting ocean water to create high-quality, handcrafted sea salt. Emphasizing the importance of origin, water quality, and the...
Food Farmer Earth
Sunflowers: Nurturing Nature's Canvas
A farmer shares his journey of cultivating a small experimental patch of sunflowers into a vibrant 9-acre bird sanctuary that blooms throughout the season, offering sanctuary to birds and joy to the community. This endeavor, blending...
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Fermentation Revolution: Sandor Katz's Insights on Beer and Beyond
Sandor Katz discusses the widespread and historical significance of fermentation, addressing misconceptions about it being a mere trend. He emphasizes its fundamental role in human diets and its resurgence as part of a broader movement...
Food Farmer Earth
Mastering the Chef's Knife: Techniques for Enhanced Precision and Safety
The tutorial introduces the proper grip for handling a chef's knife, highlighting the importance of pinching the bolster or blade for increased control. It emphasizes the correct posture for the guiding hand to ensure safety, using the...
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Introduction to Animal Husbandry
It explains the term animal husbandry. It talks about common animal farming practices and describes various practices followed in management of domestic animals.
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The Art of Grafting: Preserving Fruit Varieties with Lon Rombough
Lon Rombough explains the significance of grafting as a vital technique for reproducing specific fruit varieties, a method crucial for maintaining the genetic identity of cultivated fruits. He demonstrates a bark grafting technique,...
Food Farmer Earth
Ocean's Apex Predators: Rethinking Our Top Seafood Choices
This video addresses the environmental and health impacts of consuming top predators from the ocean, like tuna, salmon, and shrimp, and emphasizes the importance of diversifying our seafood choices towards more sustainable options like...
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...
TMW Media
Sustainable Farming: Common ways farmers protect their crops
How do farmers protect crops? How can farmers reduce the need for fertilizer and pesticides? What kinds of threats do citrus farmers face? Sustainable Farming, Part 1
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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...
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
Tobacco Press
Today we know the risks of smoking tobacco, but over 100 years ago the dangers were less well known, and tobacco became a booming business in Kentucky. It’s success can impart be credited to the Burley tobacco press
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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...
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.
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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...