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Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
Marketing tool for Colorado produce explaining how the high and dry altitude results in outstanding produce. The warm days and cool nights help the sugars to set in diverse produce such as fruit (apples and peaches) as well as sweet corn and melons. The dry climate results in production of different types of onions. The low humidity lessens pest problems resulting in fewer pesticides and fungicides being used. Easy to supply, easy to satisfy, that's...
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
Marketing tool for the Colorado Proud program that encourages buying locally grown, raised and processed food and agricultural products for high quality products and helping Colorado's economy. Videos explain how the high and dry altitude results in outstanding produce. The warm days and cool nights help the sugars to set in diverse produce such as fruit (apples and peaches) as well as sweet corn and melons. The dry climate results in production of...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"From soil preparation to strategies on dealing with insect pests, discover how this micro-farm manages to generate $150,000 in sales annually--without the use of a tractor or any heavy machinery. No matter the scale of your project, whether a small urban farm or a full-scale commercial market garden, this film will offer valuable information and help make your operation more efficient and profitable."--Container.
5) Harvest
Description
Jacob Hansen's future looked bright. He had a beautiful fiancee, and a family farm he was next in line to inherit--but the day before his wedding, he skipped town. Now, over 20 years later, Jacob has returned to find his brother, Dan married to Maddy and running the farm. The brothers butt heads and, as Dan't financial situation worsens, tension increases. To keep the family together, the jhandens must overcome their past and deal with the complex...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Michael Phillips leads viewers through a year in his own orchard, demonstrating basic horticultural skills like grafting and pruning, but also revealing groundbreaking and field-tested strategies for growing apples and other tree fruits not just organically, but holistically.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Exposes globalization and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India, farmers are fighting back. By reviving an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the biocolonialism of multinational corporations"--Container.
10) Kiss the ground
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A revolutionary group of scientists, activists, farmers, and politicians come together in a global movement of Regenerative Agriculture that could balance the climate, replenish the vast water supplies, and feed the world.
11) Ingredients
Pub. Date
2011
Description
American food is in a state of crisis. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise, food costs are skyrocketing, family farms are in decline, and our agricultural environment is in jeopardy. Explore a thriving local food movement as our world becomes a more flavorless, disconnected, and dangerous place to eat.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.