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Rodale has kindly rated them for you.  Read more about their tasting HERE [vodpod id=Video.5571053&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D782539716001%26amp%3BplayerId%3D1786720811%26amp%3BviewerSecureGatewayURL%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fconsole.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway%26amp%3BservicesURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices%26amp%3BcdnURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BautoStart%3Dfalse%26amp%3B]  

A terrific video of young farmer Alice Holden  HERE.  Alice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how and why the work captured her and perhaps even challenge our notions of what it means to be a farmer and our image of farms […]

inspiring! from the women, food & agriculture network.

amazing video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImx-r_kMxA]

GoodFoodJobs.com is one of the best resources around for finding jobs in education, culiary, non-profit, distribution, and agriculture production. Updated all the time with jobs all over the country - as we work together to banish unemployment one full belly at a time.

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/19360310] We are Abalimi. We are the Farmers. is a short documentary film about Abalimi Bezekhaya, an urban micro-farming organization operating in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. Abalimi Bezekhaya teaches people how to create their own garden, grow - and potentially sell - their own vegetables, and feed their families. Through a series […]

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a note and video link from lisa at the Urban Homesteader's League: Dear friends, As many of you know, I spent much of the summer and fall at the Union Square Farmers Market in Somerville running the Urban Homesteaders' League Market Stand.  The UHL Market Stand was a collaborative, experiential learning space I designed and […]

by the Project for Public Spaces [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYuYGnr38g]

Daniel Klein is the founder, editor, producer and director of The Perennial Plate. This series promotes his passions of food, filmmaking and activism. Check out his latest video on the growing trend of rabbit raising: http://vimeo.com/user3088064

The Last Crop tells a personal tale of a family caught in the middle of a delicate interplay between urban and agricultural space in California’s Central Valley. Annie and Jeff Main own a 20-acre organic farm that serves the Sacramento/San Francisco communities. After 30 years of farming, they are finding it harder to remain viable […]

heartwarming.

Inspired by Spain’s famous "Running of the Bulls," Brattleboro’s annual Strolling of the Heifers Parade features scores of heifers ambling up the town’s historic Main Street, along with many, many farmers, future farmers, cows, bulls, horses, Strolling of the Heifers will present its first annual Farm & Food Short Film Festival during the Tenth Annual […]

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"micro-macro" - a look at life from quark to cell to organs to galaxies, using only food! real food. from the fellows and fellas at Encyclopedia Pictura

Check out this awesome video from Joel Wolpert! Made with funds from the USDA. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/17648525]

you can read more about this project, and two others in detroit, in this Grist article: Three Projects That are Watering Detroit's 'Food Desert' [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLQVflF9foM&feature=player_embedded#!]

hexane: another reason to eat grassfed. or bike power-grind your own soy stuff or source from some cool peeps.  Hoda Soy Beanery in berkeley is a super duper example. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDkDpUJ6ug] and visit the cornucopia institute for more information.

Saturday, December 4 from 1:00-4:00pm at Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY There is no fee to attend Farm Film Fest. Please bring a non-perishable food item to support Chatham’s food pantry. Following the films, please join farmers, filmmakers, and friends at the “Meet Your Maker” reception at Peint O Gwrw. Cash bar with other refreshments provided. Sponsored […]

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a joyous+gorgeous video fresh from our Sacramento Valley Young Farmer Mixer: http://www.vimeo.com/17207786

The 30th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures on November 20th brought together three strong voices calling for change in our economic system and outlining strategies for that change.  With appreciation to Peter Montague, the talks by Gus Speth, Neva Goodwin, and Stewart Wallis may now be viewed online HERE, brought to you by the New […]

SURREF intends to fulfill families‚ unmet need by helping local communities who sustain themselves through farming in persistent poor communities jump-start their own businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable, quality, and eco-friendly agricultural innovations. http://www.surref.org/ [vodpod id=Video.4990793&w=425&h=350&fv=] SURREF Promo on Vimeo, posted with vodpod  

from Andrew Plotsky at Farm Run, two shorts on Farmstead Meatsmith: & Naomi's Farm Supply in Portland: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnAGMJ1LM0] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEC9HZR--c]

Tell your friends, the newly released Low Coal will be screened in New York City on Monday, Nov. 15 at the Spectacle Theater. There will be two showings, 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.  Watch the trailer here.  Where: Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd St., at Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, New York When: 11/15/10, 7:15 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Cost: […]

Thanks, Alex, for sending us this heads up.  In Alex's words, "An excellent and nitty gritty investigation into the direct corporate favortism by U of M officials preventing release of a film" Released U Documents Show Officials Went to Great Lengths to Appease Corporate Ag & Cover Up Reasons for Film Censorship LSP Publishes 100’s […]

who wants candy on halloween when you can have bike blended smoothies? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsP7IncdKv8]

Saturday, November 6 PREMIERE SCREENING AND GALA RECEPTION: PERMACULTURE: THE GROWING EDGE A brand-new documentary by Starhawk and Donna Read—the team that made Goddess Remembered, Burning Times, Full Circle and Signs Out of Time! Madrone Studios 1417 15th St.  San Francisco, CA 6:30 pm Gala reception, food, drinks, music by Evelie Posch Sales and Ayla Nereo, meet […]

Three young farmers share one crazy idea: To learn to farm with giant draft horses instead of tractors… in New Jersey. The Farmer and the Horse makes its New York City debut at The Tank on November 13 at 9:30 p.m. (354 W. 45th St.). Tickets can be purchased for $10 at the door or […]

coolio: a video of 5000 fed at an event in London’s Trafalgar Square where 5000 members of the public were given a free lunch made from food that would otherwise have been wasted. As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall remarked, "I think it's a brilliant way of highlighting the problem of food waste."

This show featured the Rodale Institute last weekend, and you can watch all of the episodes online! Growing a Greener World on American Public Television.

this one by director of "Real Dirt on Farmer John, taggart siegel http://vimeo.com/10971927

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba97nG2Bvyg] Last month, the University of Minnesota caused a stir when it decided to postpone the release of a film that focuses on the effect agriculture is having on U.S. waterways from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Troubled Waters–a film directed by Larkin McPhee for the University’s Bell Museum of Natural History, part of […]

From WGBY, Episode #211: Thursday, September 9, 2010 http://www.wgby.org/localprograms/ecoexchange/video.html This special edition of Eco Exchange will examine four local farms in Western MA that are using the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) business model. CSA farms, on the rise in America, but especially in New England, are farms that sell shares to individuals and families in […]

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watch a sharp 11-year old tell it like it is at TEDxNextGenerationAsheville.

discussing immigrant farmworkers. here's the video from ABC news. [vodpod id=Video.4525513&w=425&h=350&fv=vid%3D22093501%26amp%3BplaylistId%3D15749652%26amp%3BbrowseCarouselUI%3Dhide%26amp%3BshareScreenUI%3Dhide] Stephen Colbert draws attention to self, then f..., posted with vodpod

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-A8Apn1_s"] http://www.vanishingbees.com/ Click read more for info on hosting a screening:

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