TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine. We use them to cure infectious diseases, and to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. But we’ve stopped discovering new ones...
Curated Video
Organic Gardening and Sustainable Health Centers
Explore the creation of an organic vegetable garden where volunteers and facilitators share gardening skills and promote healthy eating. Learn about sustainable practices, such as using natural pest control methods, and the importance of...
Food Farmer Earth
Maximize Your Growing Season: Essential Garden Planning Tips for High School and College Students
Discover practical garden planning strategies to maximize yield throughout the growing season. This guide presented by an Oregon State University Extension Service Community and Urban Horticulturist, covers early to late season planting,...
Food Farmer Earth
Beginners Guide to Planting an Urban Garden—Expert Tips, Book Ideas
Naomi Montacre, co-owner of Naomi's Organic Farm Supply store gathers together some of her favorite books, hand tools, and expert advice to help the beginning urban gardener in planting an edible garden.
Food Farmer Earth
Alan Kapuler: Reflections from an Organic Seed Breeder and Pioneer in Organic Farming
Discover Alan Kapuler’s approach to gardening and life, from his early days in a commune to his extensive botanical research and practical gardening techniques. Learn how his dedication to diversity and sustainability shapes his view of...
Food Farmer Earth
Alan Kapuler: Scientist, Organic Seed Breeder and Modern Artist
For those who know or know of him, there's another facet to Alan Kapuler's aka Mushroom — life. He's been painting modern art that reflects the major challenges of our times for almost 50 years. A brief summary of his background in...
Food Farmer Earth
Harvesting and Saving Seeds from the Garden, part 1
Part 1: As an avid gardener and co-founder of 'Your Backyard Farmer', Donna Smith demonstrates how to harvest fresh seeds from the food garden. Being able to save seeds from prior harvests for future plantings, completes the garden...
Food Farmer Earth
Alan Kapuler - His Garden and Thoughts on Life
From the archives: Part 5 - Alan Kapuler traces the broad contours of his adult journey into growing food and becoming an open pollinated, open-source, organic seed breeder. From his early beginnings living on a commune in the 1970’s,...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Accommodation
In this video Janet Treasure discusses accomodation in relation to supporting those with eating disorders. Accomodation in this context refers to a relaxing of normal rules or norms applied to the person who is suffering with the eating...
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,...
Food Farmer Earth
Benefits of Organic Seed Breeding - Frank Morton
From the archives: Frank Morton, a Willamette Valley organic seed breeder shares his expert knowledge of plant breeding techniques that have evolved over time. As an organic farmer, Morton emphasizes the importance nature and the natural...
Food Farmer Earth
A Farmers Primer On Seed Production at the Garden, Farm and Commercial Levels
Organic farmer, Anthony Boutard, shares his detailed knowledge on seed production during his 2012 talk for the Friends of Family Farmers organization.
Food Farmer Earth
Garden Trellis Ideas for Tomatoes and Other Crops
Here are some seasoned ideas for garden trellis designs that enable plants to climb as they grow, and that provide the necessary support for plants that are weighted down with maturing fruit. Weston Miller, Oregon State University's...
Food Farmer Earth
Mushroom Cultivation for Beginners: Logs, Patches, and Home Gardens
This video guide offers a detailed introduction to growing mushrooms at home, using methods like inoculating logs with shiitake dowels and creating mushroom patches with sawdust spawn. It highlights the ease and joy of cultivating...
Curated Video
Olympus Mons: The Tallest Volcano in the Solar System
This video provides a fascinating overview of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system located on the surface of Mars. It explains the unique characteristics of this shield volcano and compares its size to popular landmasses...
Food Farmer Earth
Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity -3
Public domain plant breeder, Alan Kapuler, shares his appreciation for the ecological systems of the garden.
Food Farmer Earth
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
Food Farmer Earth
The Grape Grower
Lon Rombough, author of The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic Viticulture shares his passion for plants and growing grapes; a lifetime of study and practice as a world renowned plant breeder and grower. He shares his unique story while...
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Beyond the Gardens: The Fungarium at Kew Gardens
The largest organism in the world is a mushroom that is over 1,000 years old, covering hundreds of acres in a forest in Oregon USA. All plants on Earth relay on fungi to live, and fungi out number plants six to one. Kew has the largest...
The Art Assignment
Sorted Books | Nina Katchadourian | The Art Assignment
We meet Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian in Lawrence, Kansas, at the former home of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997). Nina takes us on her journey of sorting Burroughs's book collection and challenges you to...
The Guardian
This man found £2 in the street 40 yrs ago. Now he makes half of the UK's organic museli
Alex Smith started his business by scavenging fruit from Covent Garden Market and selling it in a London squat in the 1970s. Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Now, Alara Cereals produces almost half of the organic...
Curated Video
Paiute People Adapt Traditions to Modern-Day Gardens | Tending Nature | Season 2 | Episode 4
A constant battle over water, including a major leak in a pipe owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, inspired the Big Pine Paiute Tribe to revisit the irrigation traditions of their ancestors and connect them to modern...
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Garden | Elmo's World
In this new Elmo's World, Elmo's love for gardens grows as he learns more about them! -- Subscribe to the Sesame Street Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=SesameStreet For more fun games and videos for your...
Happen Films
Organic Sustainable Farming is the Future of Agriculture | The Future of Food
In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje talk about why the supermarket system doesn't work and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing. CSA members help farmers to grow the best quality...