Food Farmer Earth
Innovative Business Strategies for U-Pick Farms: Diversifying Income Streams
Discover the diverse business models a U-pick farm employs to maintain steady cash flow and engage the community. From vacation rentals to selling homemade products, learn how multiple revenue streams can enhance farm sustainability.
Food Farmer Earth
Food Works
Food Works provides opportunities to young people to make a difference in their communities. The youth comes from a diverse background, 14 to 21 years in age, they learn valuable skills how to communicate more effectively with adults,...
Food Farmer Earth
A Upick Farm Diversifies Its Income Streams
Theresa Draper has up to 10 people relying on her, and her Upick farm for their income. Draper has found that by diversifying her 40 acre farm, adding added value products, and being creative, for example, opening an old farm house to...
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Small Diversified Farm Entrepreneur - Mobile Minute
Theresa Draper of Draper Girls Country Farm in Parkdale, Oregon shows us her 40-acre diversified farm with it's magnificent views of Mount Hood. Draper talks about some of the ways she's been able to bring in additional revenue to help...
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Sweet & Savory Pies: A Love Story
When Philly native Sarah Curtis-Fawley travelled to Australia for what she just intended to be a year, fate seems to have intervened. Marrying, and eventually opening up a bakery (the Pacific Pie Company) in Portland, Oregon specializing...
Food Farmer Earth
Kitchen Literacy- 2
From the archives: PART 2—Continuing our conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy, she explains how over time we became gradually disconnected from how foods were produced and where they originated.
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Mark Bittman - On Healthy Eating
From the archives: American food journalist and author Mark Bittman, shares his views on what constitutes healthy eating. The typical American diet is 10% plant-based calories and 90% calories from meat and processed food. Bittman says...
US Department of Agriculture
Farmers Markets More Popular Than Ever
USDA is making it easier for farmers to sell directly to consumers.
Curated Video
NY Agricultural Commissioner visits farmers' market
1. Woman buying in farmers market, US delegation in background
2. Various of New York Agricultural Commissioner Patrick Hooker and delegation walking past agricultural produce
3. Close-up of tomatoes on sale
4. Hooker buying produce...
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Virtual farmers market delivers straight to your front door
Sara Pasquinelli doesn't do her shopping at grocery stores anymore.
Instead, this busy mother of two young boys purchases nearly all her fresh food from a new online service that brings produce right to her door.
While numerous...
Curated Video
Locally produced food becomes popular with consumers
London - March 2007
1. Various shots of market stalls at farmer's market
3. Close up of Brussels sprouts
4. Wide shot stall holder putting up an umbrella with 'Homebase' store in background
5. Wide shot cheese stall
6. Close up jar...
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The ongoing drought in California and other western states is starting to bump prices up at the grocery store. As AP's Haven Daley reports, beef may be the first food item to see an increase. (Feb. 27)
WITH a severe drought impacting farms across western states, YIELDS ARE DOWN AND PRICES ARE GOING UP.
(SOT: Andrew Bellouin, Far West Fungi)
"We should be getting more local mushrooms in, mostly from Mendocino. But because there's no...
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Want locally grown, organic cauliflower, but can't make it to the farmers market? A new online service called Good Eggs lets shoppers buy fruits, vegetables and artisan foods from local producers -- and delivers them to your home or office. (Dec. 23)
Location: San Francisco - Dec. 17
(VO: Driver carries grocery bags to Sara Pasquinelli's front door; Sara in kitchen taking out food she just bought)
(some nat pop here)
SOT/Sara Pasquinelli, Good Eggs customer
"I mean I don't even...
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British royals visit farmers' market, drink beer in pub
1. Crowd gathered to greet Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
2. Mid of woman holding large British flag
3. Close up of sign reading "We love you Charles and Camilla"
4. Close up of woman holding Prince Charles...
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Barry Jones sells eggs from his 700 free-range hens at Milwaukee area farmers markets and by home delivery. Ever since the massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs, customers have been bombarding him with questions about how he raises his chickens.
HEADLINE: Egg recall puts free-range farmers in high demand
CAPTION: Barry Jones sells eggs from his 700 free-range hens at Milwaukee area farmers markets and by home delivery. Ever since the massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs,...
Curated Video
Russia bans meat imports, plus comments from China
Russia
1. Various of farmers' market where meat is sold
2. Wide shot of press conference
3. Wide shot of presser
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Sergei Dankvert, Russian Deputy Agriculture Minister
"Right now is the period of time when everyone...
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Protesters demonstrate as APEC summit begins
1. Protester burning a banner reading: "No Kim Jong Il"
2. Mid shot of burning poster
3. Close-up of protester shouting
4. Wide of protesters holding banners, some demonstrators have masks of political figures including US President...
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The origins and production of the Christmas satsuma
AP Television
Mountainside, Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, November 20th, 2010
1. Various of Satsumas growing on mountain side.
2. Long, Satsuma tree foreground, Kii mountains and Pacific ocean background.
AP Television
Kamiakizu,...
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Locally produced food becomes popular in Okinawa
Okinawa - July 2007
1.Ferry leaves port on Miyakojima mainland heading for adjacent Irabu Island
2. Sunflower
3. Bridge connecting Kurima Island with the Miyako mainland
4. Blunt-headed parrot fish
5. Fish caught by local fishermen being...
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Shoppers worried about struggling debt talks
Shoppers at an Athens farmers' market said on Saturday they felt the pinch of Greece's economic crisis and were worried about the outcome of the country's negotiations with its creditors.Greece said Friday it will present its creditors...
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City gardens, produce stands ease food desert woes
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