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Help fund Anna Mumford's film about her family's Indiana Farm!  15 days to go on her kickstarter campaign. A year ago, inspired by the work I'd been doing with the local food community in NYC, I began a film project about my family's corn and soybeans farm in Indiana. The farm, located in Griffin, Indiana […]

Deb Shoval, 33 year old farmer in northeast PA made the short film AWOL while running her CSA, Fertile Grounds http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/awol_sundance2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/movies/palm-springs-international-shortfest.html?_r=1&hpw

a film series: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/the-next-american-system/video-beyond-the-motor-city/939/

They’re composting and they’re earnest. Amanda Austin and Dan Moon met here in the hudson valley on apprenticeships-and even stopped in for dinner with the greenhorns one night. Now, Amanda’s returned to her hometown, recruited Dan to come join her, and they’ve launched a community farm right in the heart of Texas.  

a must-see film.  At the Anthology  Film Archives in NYC just til Thursday! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4eHeo_l7g] Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave 4:15 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:15 PM In Uruphong Raksasad’s ravishing documentary/fiction hybrid, two rural families, facing the seizure of their lands, come together to work the same rice paddy for a season, using pre-industrial farming […]

coming to a theater near you! http://www.buckthefilm.com/ (can't really be beat NATIONAL VELVET)

Grand Prize at Strolling of the Heifers' first-ever film festival! Read more in the Brattleboro Reformer.

Good for everyone to watch it again. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7LcNAYBWg] http://www.permacultureportal.com/network_resources.html

The first screening will take place at The Speakeasy at Local 121 in Providence at 8pm on June 16, and the second at The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center in Newport at 6pm on June 17. Advance tickets for the Newport screening are available athttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179700.

couldn't make it?  Here's a video. In late April, The Greenhorns brought the farmstorm to the nation's capital for a screening of their film and a bicycle tour of the urban farms in the city. Unfortunately, the springtime rains graced the city streets that day, recommending that we postpone the bicycle portion of the festivities. […]

a la videographer extraordinare, Andrew Plotksy. check it out HERE: http://www.vimeo.com/24284432   In late April, The Greenhorns brought the farmstorm to the nation's capital for a screening of their film and a bicycle tour of the urban farms in the city. Unfortunately, the springtime rains graced the city streets that day, recommending that we postpone the […]

On January 17, internationally recognized plant pathologist Dr. Don Huber, wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed9b-JIAa1Q&feature=player_embedded#at=11] Less than 3 weeks later, […]

The NOW & THEN FILM SERIES presents: YOUNG FARMER NIGHT - Thursday, May 19th Starts at - 6pm>>> Seeds & starts Exchange - Bring your extra garden starts & seeds to swap or sell!  Anything farm related would be great! Followed by - 7pm  >>> FILM: The Greenhorns explores the lives of America's young farming community - its […]

Nice student-made video short about our recent event in BOONE NC http://www.theappalachianonline.com/videos/viewvideo/575/news/greenhorns-young-farmer-mixer

Ciclovida:Lifecycle Film, Music & Bike Tour 2011 You are invited to Ciclovida in Turners Falls, MA! • Bike-powered projection of the award-winning documentary film, Ciclovida: Lifecycle! • Engaging speakers from a Brazilian landless movement! • Energized speakers from local climate justice and food justice movements! • Live musical performances! You are invited to a pedal-powered […]

Essex Farm is featured! Check out the video on Kickstarter

Joe's Orchard [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23123364] you may hear Joe on the radio with us one day soon.

severine boardrooming it for young farmers in albany with baseball cap american farmland trust lobby day recorded by anna mumford http://newyork.farmland.org/no-farms-no-food/no-farms-no-food-rally-lobby-day-multimedia

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[ted id=1122] Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). Marcin Jakubowski […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MW3MsoiOVw&feature=player_embedded] there is a festival coming right up in San Francisco! Check it out.

Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest is a short documentary that captures intimate portraits of 3 New Yorkers on a journey through the culture of dumpster diving, illuminating a practice as old as agriculture. Support this project on kickstarter!

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Matthew Garrett, a 24-year-old farmer, is transitioning a 40 acre tobacco farm to organic produce. He's in the second year of the three-year transition requirement to certify a farm organic. In this process, Matthew is also finding ways to convert old tobacco farm equipment for his organic produce needs. Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/21811937

The Sustainable Ag Tool Lending Library-- George Oneal, a young farm, started it, and it's ONLY for young, beginning farmers, none of which who could afford equipment on their own. So they formed the tool lending library in order to support each other. This video is about 4 minutes long-- they're all North Carolina.  http://vimeo.com/21811545

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The Garden Cycles Bike Tour Presents: Faces From The New Farm Liz Tylander, Lara Sheets and Kat Shiffler are the Garden Cycles Bike Tour. In the summer of 2007, these quirky ladies took off on bikes and filmed what would become a 35-minute film chronicling their 2,000 plus mile journey in search "the new American […]

a work-in-progress documentary about a first generation farm family in Rollinsford, NH. This is good, important work, and you can support the project on kickstarter HERE.

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcqGjeNz7w] The Carolina Chocolate Drops offer a preview of their Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig

Our friend Ella McSweeney of Home Grown Ireland sent us this beautiful video she shot of a farmer letting his cows out on the fresh grass of Spring for the first time since November.  Be sure to read her full post HERE.  If you're having trouble feeling spring-y, this is the ticket! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPATi-QojM] "today is […]

March 5, 2011 - The Just Food CSA in NYC Conference was an opportunity for CSA members and farmers from around the city to come together for a day of workshops, discussion, and good food. watch the vimeo video to see the awesomeness for yourself!

video from the MIT Global Challenge - Farm Hack! + a play-by-play blog from the weekend  

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[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/19838162] http://www.freshfromzone7.com

and rocky mountain organic meats [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0IOO1YR-0M]

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12212333] http://www.meetyourfarmer.org/

Symphony of the Soil is an upcoming documentary series currently in production by Deborah Koons Garcia - The Future of Food (2004) - that explores the soil community from the microscopic to the global. Three of the short films (Sekem Vision, Transition Town Totnes, and Portrait of a Winemaker) from the Symphony of the Soil […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz2K8YPSMy8] http://www.nomdeguerre.tv/

Lettuce Eat Kale has two solid lists, one of the top 10 Documentaries and one for straight up "food films". Babette's Feast, anyone? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8ZkMYntdQ]