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Videos on Agriculture, Farming, Permaculture, and Gardening
This list includes funny videos and animations about farming, agriculture, gardening, and permaculture; serious/informative videos too! Topics include urban farming, making money in farming, backyard farming, gardening techniques.
See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to agriculture and gardening.
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FARMING/GARDENING VIDEOS
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WANT TO GET RICH QUICK? GET INTO FARMING!
A hilarious video about farming—and how to make an easy fortune doing it. Crude language but very funny. Watch funny farming video.
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THE MEATRIX - I, II, AND II-1/2
The Meatrix animation series riffs off the popular movie trilogy "The Matrix" to tell us about the ills of industrialized animal agriculture in a humorous and entertaining way. Watch The Meatrix.
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PILL-POPPING COWS
Think "Grade A" means something? After watching this disgustingly funny Mark Fiore animation, you may decide you have a beef with the system!
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FARMING/GARDENING VIDEOS
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HOW WE CAN EAT OUR COMMUNITY LANDSCAPES
What should a community do with its vacant land? Plant food, of course. In Todmorden, England, the Incredible Edible team has turned unused plots into communal vegetable gardens, radically changing the outlook on food in their community. Watch guerilla gardening video.
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HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION
Whether you want to be sure your food doesn't have E. Coli, pesticide residue, or franken-genes... or whether you'd like to lower your grocery store bill and make your family more resilient in the face of the coming food crisis ... or whether you're just tired of mowing ... Converting lawn areas to gardens is a great idea. For inspiration, more reasons to take the plunge, and tips on getting started, check out this 9-minute
video on urban farming.
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A SUBVERSIVE PLOT
This short presentation explains the great reasons to grow more of your own food—from peak oil to avoiding GMOs to redistributing power back to the people, away from the corp-gov axis of weasels. Watch reasons to garden video.
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AN EXPERIMENT IN BACK YARD SUSTAINABILITY
Can your household produce a significant portion of its own food supply? Gardener Scott McGuire shows what can be done even in a relatively small back yard. Watch
small-space food gardening video
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THE FARM BILL FOOD BATTLE
This is a fun video that entertains as is educates about how industrial-food interests are yet again trying to hijack the federal farm bill.
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FOUR ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE — A SELF-SUFFICIENT FARMSTEAD
This tour of a small homestead provides insight into clearing land; dealing with drainage, streams, and ponds; small-farm animal issues; cultivating mushroom logs; container gardening; food preservation, including a cool food dehydrator; putting free or already-available materials to good use. Excellent! Watch homesteading video.
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Videos on Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Biodiversity
Videos on Chemicals, Toxics, Pesticides
Videos on Food, Nutrition, Diet, Organic
Videos on GMOs, Genetic Engineering
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Farming & Agriculture
Resources for Gardening & Landscaping
Resources for Animal Welfare & Biodiversity
Resources for Food, Nutrition, Diet
Resources for GMOs & Genetic Engineering
Resources for Organic Agriculture & Food
Resources for Pesticides & Pest Control
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You Bet Your Garden
How to Make Compost WITHOUT Fall Leaves —
28 Apr 2013 —
In the question of the week, Mike McGrath discusses creative solutions if you have a dearth of fall leaves but still want to make good compost. Other topics include... using high tunnels and greenhouses to get a jump on the gardening season; using goats to get rid of invasives; why you must rotate your tomato plots; homemade electric-shock devices for squirrels and deer; whether banana and citrus peels can be used in your non-tropical compost pile.
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You Bet Your Garden
Square Foot Gardening Primer —
13 Apr 2013 —
Mike McGrath's topics include... the importance of regionally appropriate seeds; the proper way to trim outdoor flowers; clever ways of dealing (gently) with house-damaging carpenter bees. Special guest Mel Bartholemew discusses Square Foot Gardening, a method of highly concentrated planting in small spaces. The question of the week is about trees—do they really ever need mulch, and can a tree survive severed roots?
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Radio EcoShock
Wardeh Harmon on Food Dehydration —
17 Apr 2013—
It's shocking that so many city folk say they are not interested in cooking or growing and preserving food. Don't they eat? Don't they read the headlines about toxic factory agriculture and fast-food restaurants? Maybe the just need to hear how its done. Wardee Harmon talks about different dehydration techniques that can be used to preserve a wide variety of food crops.
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A FARM FOR THE FUTURE
REVIEW: The premise of this 48-minute movie is that oil will soon peak, and that this will have enormous implications for agriculture. A Farm For the Future moves quickly past the framing of the problem to spend most of its time exploring how the food and farming issue can be solved.
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EDIBLE LANDSCAPING IN THE CITY
"Garden Girl" Patti Moreno provides tips on in-city gardening and gives ideas on how to have less lawn and more "edible landscaping." Specific topics include raised beds, blueberry bushes, and more. Watch urban gardening videos.
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THE VANISHING OF THE BEES
This video weaves together info and images on the mysterious, devastating collapse in honeybee populations. From the film Vanishing of the Bees via YouTube.
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The interviewees in the above clip seem to be in agreement with my own assessment of why the problem is happening, which we presented recently as part of GP's Crisis Affecting Agriculture article.
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SOIL: THE SECRET SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING — We can kill two disaster-birds with one stone by employing organic, no-till agriculture to lock away carbon in the soil. Less greenhouse-gas emissions, more healthy food with no pesticide residues. Learn more in this 9-minute video. From Quantum Shift TV via YouTube. Go there
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THE ORGANIC GARDENS OF HAVANA
This 8-minute clip from the BBC's "Around the World in 80 Gardens" shows how substantial amounts of local, organic food can be grown in urban settings. Cubans have achieved this in spite of—or, perhaps, thanks to—the technology limitations caused by US trade embargo that continued even after Cuba's former sponsor, the USSR, collapsed in the late 1980s. Via YouTube. Watch urban gardening video.
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