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...
Catalyst University
Identifying Regions of Molecule with Resonance
Identifying Regions of Molecule with Resonance
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...
The Economist
What you should know about chickens
People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
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...
Catalyst University
Haloalkanes & Branched Alkanes [Part 1] | Name → Structure
Here, we discuss how to draw simple Haloalkanes & Branched Alkanes given their IUPAC names.
Curated Video
Introduction to Natural Polymers: From Sugars to DNA
The video provides an overview of natural polymers found in all living things. The video explains that sugars are carbohydrates and can be linked together to form polysaccharides in condensation reactions, with examples of starch and...
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...
Food Farmer Earth
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...
Food Farmer Earth
Anna Lappé: Advocating for Government's Positive Role in Food Policy
Anna Lappé discusses the critical role government should play in shaping sustainable food systems, contrasting it with the detrimental effects of unchecked corporate influence on food quality and environmental health. She emphasizes the...
The Wall Street Journal
Breaking Down Sustainable Fashion
Sustainability has become a mantra in the fashion industry, but what does it really mean? Leaders of two fast-growing startups explore the opportunities presented by recycling and reuse.
Mazz Media
Soil Formation
In this live-action program viewers will learn that Soil is the top most layer of earth, lying on top of a layer of bedrock. Soil is often black or dark brown to red, comprised of mixture of organic remains, clay and rock particles....
Food Farmer Earth
Preserving Endangered Heritage Breeds of Livestock
Boondockers Farm is a preservation farm. It’s a working farm dedicated to protecting rare species of heritage livestock and heirloom vegetable seeds.
Healthcare Triage
Is Organic Food Better for Your Health?
Many of my friends and family will only touch organic food. That's their right, and I don't try to fight with them. I sometimes get uncomfortable, though, when they make claims about organic food that just aren't supported by data and...
Food Farmer Earth
From Rooftop to Farm: A Chef's Journey into Microgreen Farming
After falling in love with rooftop gardening at a restaurant, a chef transitions to full-time farming, focusing on microgreens like radishes and arugula, marketed directly to fellow chefs and respected restaurants. This transition...
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Pigments
Why are most plants green? Why do leaves change colors in the autumn? Let's learn about pigments, the molecules that give living organisms their color. They also have other interesting functions, like the famous chlorophyll, which serves...
Food Farmer Earth
Salad Bowls in Small Spaces: Container Gardening for Beginners
The guide focuses on creating "salad bowls" through container gardening, ideal for city dwellers with limited outdoor space like balconies or small decks. It introduces a sustainable method for a continuous harvest of salad ingredients,...
Mazz Media
Erosion
This live-action video program is about erosion. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
Food Farmer Earth
Forging Tradition - The Art of Crafting Japanese Culinary Knives
The transcript unveils the journey of a modern blacksmith dedicated to the ancient craft of making Japanese culinary knives, melding tradition with personal artistic vision. It explores the blacksmith's process, from the initial...
Food Farmer Earth
Culinary Foundations: Mastering Chef's Knife Techniques
This video tutorial introduces essential knife techniques, focusing on the use of a 10-inch chef's knife for a variety of kitchen tasks. From holding the knife correctly for control and safety to demonstrating specific cuts for fruits,...
Food Farmer Earth
From Pasture to Plate: The Ethical Journey of Butchering a Pig
The video outlines the detailed and respectful process of butchering a pig named Roger, emphasizing the ethical and humane methods used from the moment of the kill to the final preparation. It captures a first-hand experience of...
Food Farmer Earth
Harnessing Disease Resistance in Plants through Classical Breeding Techniques
Frank Morton details the process of developing disease-resistant plants using classical plant breeding methods, focusing on a specific project to increase lettuce's resistance to Sclerotinia (lettuce drop). By conducting trials with...
Food Farmer Earth
Hybrids and Seed Monopolies: Shaping the Future of Agriculture
The emergence of hybrid crops, characterized by their fleeting genetic combinations stable for only one generation, revolutionized plant breeding by enabling rapid improvements in yield, protein, and oil quality. However, this innovation...