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The Chef's Garden, Cultivating Flavor for the World's Top Chefs
Explore the journey of The Chef's Garden, a family-owned farm in Ohio dedicated to growing specialty produce tailored for the culinary elite, focusing on natural breeding techniques and flavor.
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This Chicago Farmers Market Is on Wheels
Explore the transformative work of Malcolm Evans, the farm manager at Urban Growers Collective in South Chicago. In a neighborhood often labeled a food desert, Malcolm takes the initiative to teach people how to farm and demonstrates the...
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Revolutionizing Beekeeping: The Tree Hive Approach
The Tree Hive Bees initiative explores returning bees to a more natural, elevated habitat to combat stressors like overcrowding and predators. By mimicking traditional tree hollows, including aspects like cavity size and the introduction...
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Towards more sustainable fertilisers
As the world’s population grows so will our use of synthetic fertilisers. Innovations mean more sustainable options exist, but they still must be viable
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Carlo Petrini The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource
From the archives: part 2- Agriculture too, has natural built-in limitations. Slow Food founder, Carlo Petrini, warns that we have learned how to circumvent those limits and as a result are paying the price.
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12 Garden Planning Tips to Maximize the Growing Season
Weston Miller, an Oregon State University Extension Service Community and Urban Horticulturist, shares 12 garden planning tips to help you make the most out of your growing season. Below are the 12 tips hyperlinked to their individual...
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Paul Roberts - The End of Food
From the archives: Paul Roberts, author of The End Of Food, summarizes his talk about our food system, circa 2009. Roberts argues that the industrial agriculture system is sick and that applying surface solutions will not get to the root...
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Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity
Alan Kapuler is a man who thinks on big time scales, and across wide geographic spheres of reality. A molecular biologist by training, as a young adult, Kapuler experienced an almost spiritual connection from working with plants. Years...
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How to Make Authentic East Coast Bagels Wherever You Live
Nicole Rees and Lisa Bell, the former a food scientist, and the later a former artisan baker, demonstrate how to make authentic, East Coast bagels from basic ingredients.
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Wes Jackson Speaks Out for Sustainability
Wes Jackson, president and founder of the Land Institute, speaks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking For Solution Conference, an impassioned plea for sustainability.
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Tom Tranthams Sustainable Dairy Grazing System
From the archives: a remarkable story of perseverance, courage and some incredible luck. Tom Trantham shares his story about the development of his 12 Aprils feeding program and how this discovery saved his farm from the brink of...
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How to Grow Vegetables Indoors for Transplanting
Oregon State University Extension Service Urban Horticulturist Weston Miller Weston demonstrates indoor seeding with the following 'cut & come again' vegetables to begin growing in flats: cilantro, arugula, mustard greens, and other...
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Direct Seeding in the Garden For Early Season Vegetables
In the direct seeding method, Weston Miller demonstrates the types of vegetables to grow by direct seeding in the early Spring garden: potatoes, peas, carrots, beets, radishes, arugula, lava beans, and mustard greens.
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Choosing the Right Garden Tools for Your Vegetable Garden
For those with little direct gardening experience, this introductory video will help you choose the right garden tools to properly manage your vegetable garden. Weston Miller, an urban horticulturist for the Oregon State University...
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Achieving Agriculture Sustainability - Beyond Organic Farming
From the archives: Fred Kirschenmann, an organic farmer and a veteran leader in the food movement, offers some thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture and the challenges of achieving true sustainability.
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The Oldest Pinot Noir Vines in the Willamette Valley
Dundee, Oregon. David Lett may not have single-handedly put Oregon wine on the world map, but he was certainly one of its earliest, most prescient, winemaking crusaders that helped establish the Oregon wine industry. In keeping with the...
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Thermal Banking: Cold Storage
From the Cooking Up a Story archive: The thermal banking technology that Steven Schwen uses in his innovative greenhouse applies not only to conservation of heat, but to cold storage and refrigeration.
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Pastured Pig to Plate, One Writer's Experience
As a food writer, and blogger, Kathleen Bauer prefers to write from first-hand experience. The idea for pasture to plate came after responding to an offer from a farmer to purchase half a pastured pig.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium David Mas Masumoto
From the archives: Inspiring writer, and passionate sustainable farmer, David Mas Masumoto, shares his views on farming, on life, and the inherent tensions that arise, the "creative edge", from the art of writing, and of being a farmer.
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Joan Dye Gussow - About Her Garden, Kids & Nature
An extended interview with Joan Dye Gussow, one of the true pioneers and visionaries in the food movement. Previously unpublished.
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Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity 4
The garden is not just a garden. The garden is a metaphor for having a place to develop an ethical way to understand life, and to make a life that is ethical. —Alan Kapuler
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Biodynamic Vineyard
Dr. Robert Gross, of Cooper Mountain Vineyards, shares his unconventional philosophy and approach to winemaking.
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings - Reimagining a Sustainable Food System
From the archives: journalist, environmentalist and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world. Cummings argues for a radical new approach to...
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Coming Up With the Right Way Forward In Uncertain Times
In this final 4-part series, Claire Hope Cummings shares her honest doubts about the fate of the earth. In referring to her book (Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds), Cummings draws from other indigenous...