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Organic Farmer

6th - 12th Standards
Camp Joy Gardens, a small, non-profit, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, runs classes for children and adults. The narrator of a short video about Camp Joy Gardens explains how CSA farms can work as a profitable business, as...
Instructional Video
Into the Outdoors

Into the Outdoors: Discovery of Nitrogen Fixation

6th - 8th
This video explores George Washington Carver's experiments to replenish the nutrients in the soil in the southern states. Learn how he found that nitrogen fixation was the key to enrich the soil. He suggested rotating the cotton planting...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Factory Farms and Organic Alternatives

9th - 10th
Modern farming has helped feed the world, but along the way, the land has suffered, according to this video adapted from the series 'Race to Save the Planet.' When farmers grow too much too fast, topsoil is depleted. Farmers can work...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Greater Boston: Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?

9th - 10th
This video segment from 'Greater Boston' examines the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects. Massachusetts had been planning to use aerial spraying to control the spread of eastern equine encephalitis, a disease...