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...
US Department of Agriculture
Nature’s New “Soil Cleaner”
Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in central California are using cactus and other plants to remove toxins from soil and to create biofuels. USDA’s Patrick O’Leary has more.
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...
Food Farmer Earth
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...
US Department of Agriculture
MyPlate, MyWins: Meet Candice & James
The USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion continues their “MyPlate, MyWins” video series with Candice, who is 38 weeks pregnant, James, and their 2-year old son. Follow this family as they prep for the arrival of a new baby...
US Department of Agriculture
New Sunpreme Grape Variety from USDA-ARS
Plant Breeders with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in central California are developing better raisins and table grapes for American farmers and consumers. USDA’s Patrick O’Leary has more.
Food Farmer Earth
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...
FuseSchool
Food Security
Even though enough food is grown to feed all 7 billion people on Earth, around 795 million (so 1 in 9 people) do not eat enough food to maintain good health. These people don’t just live in less developed countries, being undernourished...
PBS
Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens...
Curated Video
Efficient Farming with Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a sustainable and highly efficient system that combines aquaculture (fish farming) with hydroponics (growing plants without soil). By utilizing the waste produced by fish to provide nutrients for plants, aquaponics requires...
Curated Video
Agrarian Society
This live-action video program is about the word Agrarian Society. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of Agrarian Society through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Next Animation Studio
RNA-based plant vaccine could supplant chemical pesticides
Conventional pesticides are a double-edged sword that scientists are now seeking to replace with more natural RNA-based plant vaccines. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that without pesticides, roughly 70 percent of the...
Food Farmer Earth
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...
US Department of Agriculture
MyPlate, MyWins: Meet Shelley
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion introduces the “MyPlate, MyWins” video series, a collection of videos that brings MyPlate to life and shows how families all over America are finding simple...
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
The Cotton Gin: An Infamous Invention
It mechanised cotton production by separating cotton from seeds – but increased the demand for slave labor. Discover how the cotton gin changed 18th century American society.
US Department of Agriculture
A Little Story about Land Stewardship
NRCS worked with Twin Brook Creamery near Lynden, WA to install steel tanks as an alternative to earthen lagoons, eliminating the potential for seepage into groundwater.
Food Farmer Earth
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...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Monarch Butterflies
USDA launches a new conservation effort to attract monarch butterflies.